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Art of Negotiating® - Everybody Wins® Seminar

The Negotiation Institute proudly offers its world renowned Art of Negotiating® - Everybody Wins® seminar. This powerful seminar was developed using Gerard Nierenberg's original materials. Enrich your negotiation skills and let everyone come out a winner with the help of this unique seminar. This seminar is offered as an on-site negotiation skills training workshop.

Acquire Powerful Negotiation Skills

In the Art of Negotiating® - Everybody Wins® seminar, you will learn to:

  • Achieve financial success.
  • Discover new solutions to business and personal problems.
  • Prevent or resolve disputes and conflicts.
  • Improve your worth to your organization.
  • Improve individual, department, and company productivity.
  • Improve your management and interpersonal skills.
  • Improve selling/purchasing skills.
  • Increase your profitability and gain new opportunities.
  • Negotiate in any situation with skills that will last a lifetime.

Your success is directly related to the outcome of your negotiations and the outcome of your negotiations is an agreement. Your agreements can be strong or weak; short lived or lasting; cooperative or hostile; favorable or unfavorable – in short, the agreements you negotiate dictate:

  • Whether or not you close an important sale.
  • What you pay for goods and services.
  • The terms of your purchase or sale.
  • Whether or not you get a signature on a contract.
  • Whether or not you gain a cooperative agreement or adversaries who fight your every move.
  • Whether to trade one of your conditions for a concession or see your negotiations end in a stalemate.
  • When you get right down to the bottom line, your ability to make and keep any relationship depends on how well you can negotiate an agreement.
  • Nierenberg's Methods, Strategies And Gambits Work For Anyone

We Prepare You To Achieve Maximum Results

If you have an important or difficult upcoming negotiation, The Art of Negotiating® seminar will prepare you to achieve maximum results. This learning experience will have a lasting effect on your future success. You will gain first hand information on how to refine your negotiating skills with Mr. Nierenberg's methods.

  • You'll learn techniques that neutralize surprises or "ambushes" from the other side.
  • You'll find the key to consistent and lasting results from your negotiations - with proven alternatives you can adapt and use immediately.
  • You'll see how to read your opponent like a book - unveil hidden meanings in conversations - and analyze your opponent's nonverbal behavior.
  • You'll discover why some negotiators succeed time and time again - knowing how to select the proper negotiating 'climate' to increase the odds of success.
  • You'll be shown how the pros prepare for a negotiation - how to rehearse your strategy so that both you and your opponent come out a winner.
  • You'll be given offensive/defensive strategies such as crossroads (intersect, entwine, entangle), bracketing (how to make and hit the mark), reversal (go forward or backward) and other effective techniques.
  • You and the other participants will demonstrate and see for yourselves new alternatives that reduce the risk your negotiations will deadlock.
  • You'll learn what it takes to reinforce sustain a negotiating success once it's achieved.

These are just some of the ways that the Art of Negotiating® - Everybody Wins® seminar can improve your negotiating skills. Below is a general outline for this seminar. Note that seminars are custom-made to suit all of our clients.

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Getting Ready to Negotiate

  • Finding your hidden assumptions, anticipating theirs
  • The all important opening issues vs. objectives
  • The right tools
  • Maximum and minimum positions
  • Check lists and special Nierenberg Preparation Map

Getting What You Want - Nierenberg's Need Theory of Negotiating

  • Satisfaction of needs
  • Understanding/recognizing needs
  • Changing win/lose positions
  • Finding common interest

Using Questions and Listening to Control Negotiation

  • Questions and Conversations
  • Questions and anxiety
  • How to formulate questions
  • Question matrix
  • Essential functions of questions
  • Using functional questions to close
  • Use a customized question map for preparation

Tools for Using Creativity in Your Negotiation

How to Control Negotiation Conflict by Controlling the Climate

  • Elements of climate, attitude, Meta-Talk, gestures
  • Typical climates and how to predict them
  • Experimentation in creative negotiating climates
  • 92 working climates you should know

Reading Non-verbal Communications

  • Meta-Talk (hidden meanings) and how it applies to negotiating dialogue
  • Reading gestures, feelings, expressions, mannerisms
  • Loaded words
  • Ear-opening methods
  • Type of room, type of table and seating arrangements

Evaluate Negotiating & Improve Skills

  • Reason for failure
  • Skills needed for success
  • Demonstration of skills by participation
  • Real estate examples
  • Checklist for buyers and sellers
  • Prices considerations
  • Caucus with your team
  • Buying-selling considerations
  • Varieties of contract
  • Labor-management agreement
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Internal corporate negotiating
  • Make your negotiation competence appreciated and recognized.

Special Tactics and Counters

  • Limited authority
  • Deadline
  • Low-balling
  • Partnership
  • Blackmail, kidnapping-hostage tactics
  • Personalize
  • Non-negative demands (and others)
  • Sole source supplier

Using & Countering & Major Strategies

  • Good guy/bad guy
  • Forbearance
  • Fait accompli
  • Bland withdrawal
  • Last clear chance
  • Reversal, feigning, setting limits
  • Randomizing
  • Association and disassociation
  • Crossroads
  • ...and many more

Making the Agreement Stick

  • Make agreements in spite of competition
  • The marks of a successful negotiation
  • Making one agreement lead into the next
  • Flexible and internal procedures
  • Plugging the "holes" In an agreement

Negotiation Philosophies - Everybody WinsŪ

  • Is your negotiating philosophy serving you?
  • Appraising your negotiating philosophy
  • Cooperative process - Success
  • Negotiation is not a game
  • Reaching a life balance
  • When to stop
  • You can change your philosophy to create successful conclusions

 


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