People Skills – Effective Negotiation
This course is specially designed for those who face tough buyers and who want to develop the skills and techniques to achieve best outcomes.
Course Summary

Course Information for Students
Who is this course for?
Enter negotiations confidently to ensure that win-win results are obtained. This course is specially designed for those who face tough buyers and who want to develop the skills and techniques to achieve best outcomes. It will help you reduce the length of negotiations by justifying your position and avoiding unnecessary discounting.
Entry Requirements
What will you learn?
• Seeing negotiation as a two-way process and helping to apply this to day-to-day roles
• Understanding the psychology of why clients think they should pay less
• Exploring personality types and the benefits of confronting negotiation situations
• Developing a focus on cost/value and looking at the rules of negotiation
• Identifying trading variables – with practical application in role play and group exercises
• Gaining and maintaining control
• Phone and email negotiations: how to manage these situations
• Understanding the concept of influencing and how it differs from negotiation
• The profile of successful persuaders and overcoming obstacles to persuasion
• Negative vs positive influencing tactics
• Building rapport to facilitate influencing and
negotiation
Benefits for the individual
• Knowledge of how to negotiate effectively with skilled buyers
• Practice in the skills needed to avoid costly mistakes
• Coaching and tips for self-development
• Ideas and techniques to utilise in your future negotiations
Benefits for the organisation
• Improved return on sales through robust, improved performance
• Standardisation of approaches
• A reduction in lost business down to ‘price-related impasse’
How will you learn?
What will you need to bring with you?
How will you be assessed?
Where next?
Who do you contact for more information?
For more information contact the Roundhouse Thinking team on 01332 836 638 or enquiries@roundhousethinking.co.uk
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Course Information Last Updated On: November 23, 2021 10:10 am