Negotiating Skills Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able
to:
• Prepare to negotiate in a business environment.
• Initiate negotiations and follow through on their results.
• Negotiate with your partner.
• Follow through on a completed business negotiation.
• Negotiate in unique business circumstances.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Preparing to Negotiate
Establish a Successful Mindset
Research the Other Party
Determine the Value of the Item Being Negotiated
Determine Where You'd Like Negotiations to Take Place
Establish Your Best- and Worst-Acceptable Outcomes
Research Your Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement
(BATNA)

Lesson 2: Initiating Negotiation: Establishing the Ground Rules
Establish Rapport
Establish Your Status
Choose the Communication Method for Negotiation
Establish the Rules of Engagement
Set a Timeline
Establish How Negotiation Results Will Be Communicated and
Implemented

Lesson 3: Negotiating
Encourage the Other Party to Issue the First Proposal
Make the First Proposal
Counter the Offer or Proposal
Accept an Offer or Abort Negotiations
Work Through an Impasse

Lesson 4: Following Through
Evaluate the Success of the Negotiation
Follow Up on the Relationship

Lesson 5: Negotiating in Special Circumstances
Cross-Cultural Negotiation
Cross-Generational Negotiation
Negotiation with Supervisors and Subordinates
Everything about business comes down to PEOPLE.
Where in business can we escape the impact of
human care, human creativity, human commitment,
human frustration, and human despair? There is no
reason for anything in business to exist if it does not
serve the needs of people.
-Bruce Cryer, Re-Engineering the Human System

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