Advanced Negotiation Skills

Today’s complex commercial and professional environment requires us to have the ability to negotiate effectively on a daily basis not only with customers, clients, suppliers and contractor, but also with managers, fellow employees and colleagues within our own organisation.

This Advanced Negotiation Skills training course is designed to explain the negotiation process in detail and demonstrate how to use it effectively, giving delegates the negotiation skills and strategies they need to succeed in today’s challenging commercial environment.

In this Advanced Negotiation Skills training course you will:

• Understand and apply key thinking techniques to be able to analyse and prepare for a range of negotiation scenarios.
• Improve your effectiveness in negotiations by understanding key negotiation strategies and how to apply them in practice
• Understand how to make the most of your own natural negotiation style
• Develop the skills to influence people more effectively and to control the negotiation table
• Gain the essential tools and knowledge to plan and manage a range of negotiation scenarios
• Enhance your ability to add value through the negotiation process
• Understand different behaviours and attitudes related to different cultures and how to turn them in your favour

By the end of this Advanced Negotiation Skills training course you will:

• Have a deep understanding of the key analysis of the negotiation process and how to influence others to get more of what you need and want
• Have developed a range of highly effective negotiating skills and strategies that can be used in a range of situation
• Be able to effectively analyse, plan and prepare for every negotiation
• Understand the benefits of controlling and reading body language when influencing others
• Have become a more effective and confident negotiator
• Have enhanced an essential operational, management and leadership skill that will increase your performance on a daily basis

This Advanced Negotiation Skills training course is suitable for anyone who wishes to enhance their skill set to make their negotiation performance a more effective part of their capabilities and will greatly benefit:

• Senior and Middle Managers
• Team Leaders
• Customer facing teams
• Administrators
• All Professionals involved in negotiations

This is a highly interactive Advanced Negotiation Skills training course , using a mix of formal presentations, role play exercises, self assessments, presentations and group discussions. The teaching methods used provide an opportunity for delegates to learn, develop and then practice the skills taught using a variety of hands-on exercises that stress participation and that reinforce and build on the comprehensive course materials provided.

Your newly acquired knowledge will:

• Help build organisational capability to add real value through the negotiation process
• Enable better strategic planning and management of the negotiation process leading to the implementation of more stable and workable agreements that protect key relationships
• Increase ability to deal effectively with people both internally within the organisation and externally with customers, clients, suppliers and other third parties
• Enhance ability to assertively claim value in negotiations that increase organisational profits
• Enable better assessment of what represents a good negotiation outcome through the understanding of core organisational interests.
• Enhance the ability to negotiate outcomes that meet or exceeding organisational goals

By the end of this training course, participants will:

• Gain an insight into their own natural negotiation style and how to adapt it to be become a more effective negotiator
• Have the skill to think analytically and strategically about the negotiation process
• Learn how to engage in true value creating collaborative negotiation and enhanced their own personal negotiation skills
• Have developed a range of negotiation strategies and an understanding of when to use them to maximize outcomes
• Gain a valuable understanding of body language and behavioural knowledge which enhance negotiation and broader business communication
• Have enhanced vital leadership, management and personal skills and gain the confidence to negotiate in a manner that adds real value