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FastEDUCATION™ Seminar

Seminar: Negotiating Effectively

Duration: 3 hour

Expected Audience:  Targeted for project leaders and sponsors, this session covers the basics of negotiating. It will also address how to handle difficult people and hardball tactics.

Objectives:

  • Understand the negotiating spectrum
  • Know how to handle cooperative negotiations
  • Know how to handle competitive negotiations
  • Practice some of the principles

Format:    Presentation / discussion / interaction in groups of 10-20.

Outline:

  • Introduction
    • Outline review
    • Materials Tour
    • Participant's experiences with negotiations
  • Basics of Negotiation
    • Exercise
    • Negotiation Spectrum
    • Different approaches to negotiation
  • Principled Negotiation
    • Separate the people from the problem
    • Focus on interests, not positions
    • Invent options for mutual gain
    • Insist on using objective criterion
  • Competitive Negotiation
    • Go to the Balcony
    • Step to Their Side
    • Reframe the Problem
    • Build them a Golden Bridge
    • Don’t Escalate - Educate
  • Application Exercise
    • Ugli Oranges or similar case
  • Summary & Wrap-up

Seminar Materials:

  • Presentation matter
    • Seminar notebook
    • 101 Negotiating Tips
    • Links to detail forms and help sites