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21-25 Apr 2025London - UK$5,950
16-20 Jun 2025Barcelona - Spain$5,950
22-26 Sep 2025London - UK$5,950
08-12 Dec 2025Dubai - UAE$5,950

Training Course Outline

Negotiation lies at the core of nearly every process aimed at achieving your goals, whether it's finalizing a contract, negotiating for an item, resolving a conflict, or closing a deal. The ultimate aim of any negotiation is to reach a win/win outcome, which is crucial for establishing and maintaining successful, long-term partnerships.

This Mastering Negotiation, Persuasion & Critical Thinking training course offers a comprehensive framework for honing your negotiation and persuasion skills, coupled with critical thinking techniques essential for creating and leveraging strategic alliances.

Training Course Objectives

By attending this Anderson training course, delegates will be able to:

  • Describe a framework for the analysis of business alliances
  • Understand how to apply influencing skills during the negotiation phase
  • Recognise and manage difficult negotiators who use aggressive tactics during negotiation
  • Understand the key principles of persuasion and its importance to negotiation
  • Apply critical thinking when planning to develop business alliances

Designed For

This Anderson training course is suitable for:

  • Delegates who want to achieve more through becoming more effective
  • Managers who are being prepared for promotion or higher levels of responsibility
  • Delegates who may be considering new projects or additional assignments
  • Managers who are looking to refresh their skills when working with others
  • Leaders who need to communicate vision more effectively for better results
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Training Course Outline

Negotiation lies at the core of nearly every process aimed at achieving your goals, whether it's finalizing a contract, negotiating for an item, resolving a conflict, or closing a deal. The ultimate aim of any negotiation is to reach a win/win outcome, which is crucial for establishing and maintaining successful, long-term partnerships.

This Mastering Negotiation, Persuasion & Critical Thinking training course offers a comprehensive framework for honing your negotiation and persuasion skills, coupled with critical thinking techniques essential for creating and leveraging strategic alliances.

Training Course Objectives

By attending this Anderson training course, delegates will be able to:

  • Describe a framework for the analysis of business alliances
  • Understand how to apply influencing skills during the negotiation phase
  • Recognise and manage difficult negotiators who use aggressive tactics during negotiation
  • Understand the key principles of persuasion and its importance to negotiation
  • Apply critical thinking when planning to develop business alliances

Designed For

This Anderson training course is suitable for:

  • Delegates who want to achieve more through becoming more effective
  • Managers who are being prepared for promotion or higher levels of responsibility
  • Delegates who may be considering new projects or additional assignments
  • Managers who are looking to refresh their skills when working with others
  • Leaders who need to communicate vision more effectively for better results

Day One: Situational Negotiating Strategies

  • Negotiation purpose: Common terms and best practice
  • Developing mutually acceptable solutions through value claiming
  • Adapting strategies to situations when building alliances
  • Personality - strengths & weaknesses in negotiations
  • Opening communication channels to maintain relationships
  • Applying Interests and Positions for strategic advantage

Day Two: Applied Negotiation Skills

  • How to reach 'win-win' in negotiation
  • The keys to collaborative bargaining in partnering
  • Leverage: What it is and how to use it?
  • Negotiation tactics and ploys
  • Dealing with difficult negotiators and barriers
  • Ethics in negotiation

Day Three: Persuasion & Influence Skills for Negotiators

  • Challenges of meetings – group and individual strategies
  • Positive persuasion in challenging situations
  • Applying rules of influential presentations to maximize impact
  • Maintaining compatible body language & using logic, credibility and passion
  • Dispute resolution and mediating for better outcomes
  • Mediation techniques - practical exercise

Day Four: Higher Level Negotiation Skills for Challenging Situations

  • Identifying and responding to signals and informal information
  • Recovering from reversals, errors and challenges
  • Developing a climate of trust
  • Higher level conversation techniques
  • Face to face negotiations; appreciating different cultures
  • Practical Negotiation exercise and feedback 

Day Five: Critical Thinking and Decision Making for Negotiators

  • Gaining control and using information – formal and informal
  • Thinking patterns, frameworks and tools for negotiators
  • Identifying sources and testing assumptions
  • Framing the problem
  • Decision making under pressure
  • Reviewing strategic alliances and building personal action

The Certificate

    Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

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Email: info@anderson.ae

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