Negotiation and influence: Strategy and skills

Like it or not you are a negotiator and communicator. Whether you're a project manager or procurement officer, lawyer, human resource consultant or c-suite executive, whether you're in sales or marking, strategy or business development, whatever your role, whichever your industry, developing an ability to effectively negotiate and communicate with influence is absolutely essential.

Drawing on ideas first developed at the Harvard Negotiation Project and from a variety of other research perspectives, this unit is designed to rapidly improve participants' ability to negotiate and influence. Adopting an intensive blended learning approach that incorporates lectures, readings, simulation, exercises and discussion, participants will: analyse different negotiating styles; practice utilising a myriad of negotiation and communication strategies and tools; learn how to collaborate, create and claim more value; influence and communicate more effectively (including how to persuasively present); deal with challenge and difficult tactics; and reflect on multi-party and cross-cultural issues.