Course Descriptions

__MSI/Canterbury | Sales and Persuading Skills
__Negotiating Skills


Target Population: Any employee who needs to negotiate
Group Size: Up to 16 participants
Length of Program: Two Days
Course Format: Theory and models of negotiation... Job-related audience analysis... Message structuring and presentation... Negotiating role plays and simulation... Constructive feedback.

The Need
Individuals who can't negotiate with their bosses, peers, subordinates, clients, and customers won't be productive for themselves – or their company. This inability to negotiate often produces arguments, friction, power struggles, and other non-productive activities.

Objectives
 • To analyze and evaluate variables involved in the negotiating process
    (credibility, audience, topic, message, environment)
 • To alter the opponent's expectations through non-manipulative logic and power
 • To plan, organize, and execute a psychological strategy of presenting positions
    concerning key issues.
 • To develop and refine negotiating skills, applying them to job-related experiences

Program Content
 • Audience analysis techniques
 • How to use environmental conditions to influence
 • Message-structuring strategies
 • Source credibility enhancers
 • Negotiating techniques and strategies
 • How to create win/win scenarios
 • Effective nonverbal communications
 • When to stall and when to press an issue
 • How to compromise
 • How to avoid being trapped in a win/lose situation

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