When timing is everything

Tactical skills can take you to some distance in the world of negotiation, but ultimately you need strategic planning to maximize opportunities.

When timing is everything
The Gap Partnership

Strategic Negotiator

Overview

•    Equips senior executives with advanced tools to handle complex, multilevel negotiations
•    Covers nine strategies that provide a framework for managing all types of situations
•    Improves strategic thinking
•    Develops specific strategies for your imminent and future negotiations

90% of successful negotiation is thanks to meticulous planning.
Even skilled, experienced negotiators face issues such as strained relationships or breakdowns in communication. These often result from reactive behavior rather than adoption and application of strategic approaches.

The Strategic Negotiator workshop is designed to build on advanced skills by breaking down the barriers and parameters of thinking that can limit the potential of negotiations.

This highly practical workshop covers nine strategies in the context of a model that explores people, process, and power at a level appropriate for strategic thinkers and operators-including a range of innovative and creative approaches to managing all types of negotiations.

Why choose the Gap Partnership?

In a harsh economic climate, it's essential to achieve more with less, control the agenda, and maintain a proactive stance. The ability to formulate strategies appropriate for each circumstance is critical in giving you the advantage.

As practitioners of high-profile and successful negotiations, we draw on our longstanding experience in developing tools and methodology.

The Strategic Negotiator workshop gives you complete insight into power, process, and people, with the aim of developing strategies based on your pending negotiations.

Who is the workshop for?

•    Senior executives
•    Those who completed The Complete Skilled Negotiator
•    Experienced negotiators with substantial financial accountability
•    Anyone involved in complex, strategic, multilevel negotiations involving multiple internal and external stakeholders

You can opt for a single company, in-house workshop, or learn in an open workshop with attendees from other organizations. Every workshop is residential and accepts a maximum of 12 attendees.

What does the workshop cover?

Each workshop is highly practical and designed to lead to a significant shift in proactive performance. We help attendees draw on creative and analytical thinking to reengineer possibilities. We also use advanced tactical planning tools to help identify and track specific variables, build proposals, and develop detailed action plans.

For each workshop, we develop cases that reflect the actual business environment of those involved. Whether in international, product, people, service, or commodity-based negotiations, we ensure your experience adds direct value to the way you perform.

To help plan for impending or future negotiations, we give each attendee a personal development plan as well as access to a practical online toolkit.

To develop specific negotiation strategies, attendees can use our suite of strategic tools. These cover a range of negotiation components, including:

•    Scope setting
•    Balance of power analysis
•    Potential problem analysis
•    Triggers and responses
•    Contingency planning
•    Stakeholder management
•    Sequencing strategies
•    Action planning

The results?

By the end of the workshop, attendees understand how power can determine strategic options and which factors provide power or take it away. Attendees recognize the characteristics of different types of negotiations and can decide on appropriate tactics. They also learn to:

•    Use strategic tools to manage risks and negotiations and analyze planning, progress, and outcomes
•    Use planning processes to construct multilevel negotiation strategies
•    Work with greater productivity and efficiency in negotiating teams
•    Develop their own strategies for current and future negotiations
•    Identify areas for future personal development

For more information, contact us at +1 914 925 0380.

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To discuss your workshop needs, contact us through our regional offices, or email us using the link below.

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