Negotiation Skills Training Materials
This ready-to-use package of fully editable negotiation skills training materials helps trainers deliver a practical course lasting one to one-and-a-half days. Through realistic business scenarios, case studies and bargaining exercises, participants learn to prepare systematically, select effective strategies, manage variables and concessions, handle emotions and psychological tactics, break deadlocks and work towards mutually beneficial outcomes.
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Key Topics Covered in the Negotiation Skills Course
What Participants Will Learn
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
What Is Included
Everything you need to run the course:
- Slides
- Trainer Notes
- Workbook
- Exercises
- Handouts
- Specific Course Guidelines
- Agenda and Course Outline
- Training Methodology Guidelines
- Feedback Forms
- Certificate of Achievement
- Recommended Readings
Bonus ebook included: How to Increase the Impact of Exercises and Get the Best Results
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Detailed Syllabus for the Negotiation Skills Course
Negotiation is a skill that we use almost every day. However, negotiation is also one of those skills that everyone learns on the job. From early age, kids learn how to negotiate with their parents over what they want and enhance this skill as they learn from their success. However, as we grow we seem to lose that skill and become less successful in getting exactly what we want. Somehow our perspective changes and we develop bad habits. Unfortunately, most people are not trained systematically on negotiations even though this skill can be quite beneficial to them in both their personal and professional lives.
This course covers a wide range of topics such as negotiation strategy, game theory, psychological tactics, human emotional states, bargaining and so on which prepares delegates for a variety of situations that require negotiation. Case studies and scenarios such as business to business negotiations, sales scenarios and product presentations are provided along with slides, animations and illustrations that better help to show how bargaining tactics are played out. Real world negotiation examples are examined in detail and delegates are then asked to participate in similar setups to use the negotiation principles discussed in the course. Comprehensive step-by-step instructions are provided for trainers to help delegates understand the core principles of negotiation and monitor their progress through practicals.
Designed with case studies and exercises from the outset to help delegates master the negotiation skills during the course as quickly as possible
The course also contains a number of optional exercises which along with the broad content provided makes it easy to extend the course to 1.5 days if necessary. Instructions on this are provided in the guidelines for trainers included in the pack to pace the course correctly.
In this highly practical course delegates will learn:
Introduction to Negotiation
- Why do you need to negotiate?
- What types of negotiations exist?
- What are the characteristics of a confident negotiator?
- How to handle conflicts in negotiations
- What steps do you need to go through when negotiating?
- What is the difference between negotiation and persuasion?
Negotiation Strategy
- What outcome should you aim for?
- How to perform Outcome Analysis
- What is the best negotiation strategy?
- Should you bargain over positions explicitly?
- What is principled negotiation?
- What strategies can you use to take the upper hand in negotiations?
- What can you do to move the negotiation forward when you think it is getting stuck?
How to Negotiate
- What is the 8-Step negotiation preparation guide?
- How to discuss negotiation variables
- How to set your selling or buying limits systematically
- How to manage your Settlement Range
- How to manage concessions when you give them or receive them
- How to break deadlocks
- How to settle a negotiation to get what you asked for
- How to close a negotiation
Emotions in Negotiations
- How to handle negotiations emotionally
- How to bargain effectively
- How to take advantage of human emotional reaction and use that to your benefit
- How to take advantage of body language
- How to express your disagreement while maintaining the relationship
Handling Psychological Tactics in Negotiations
- What are psychological tactics used in negotiations and how to respond to them
- How to handle an angry negotiator
- How to respond to shock tactics
- How to big up your side of the negotiation and bring down theirs
- How to handle their lack of authority to proceed
- How to respond when you are given only one choice
- How to handle a demanding negotiator
"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agree than to disagree"
Dean Acheson
Multi-Course Pricing Discount
10% OFF when you purchase 2 or more training materials packs.
20% OFF when you purchase 3 or more training materials packs.
30% OFF when you purchase 10 or more training materials packs.
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Content and design informed by educational psychology, behavioural science and business practice.
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Examples, case studies and exercises support practice, engagement and long-term retention.
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