Negotiation Strategies: Building Agreements Across Boundaries
- Intermediate
Enjoy a highly interactive learning experience from faculty who have both practical and theoretical knowledge of negotiations illuminate theory.
Experience a role-playing component featuring one-on-one and multi-party simulations which enables you to immediately apply the lessons learned.
Negotiation Strategies also makes extensive use of the case study method pioneered at Harvard. You will study real-world situations that mirror the kind of negotiations you face every day. Through analysis of the experience as well as interactive discussions about the critical choices made by key players along the way, you'll gain valuable insights, training and practice in making challenging leadership decisions about actual situations.
Shaping the agenda for strategic action in the face of resistance and uncertainty
Cultivating relationships in order to build coalitions and make effective deals
Exploiting leverage points in rules, prior commitments and obligations to influence perceptions and alternatives
Mapping influential players to anticipate barriers to and opportunities for negotiated agreements
Framing persuasive arguments and alternatives in order to create added value
Shifting the balance of forces within and across organizations to build momentum
Initiating strategic moves at and away from the table to change the dynamic
Assessing negotiation outcomes with a view to improving future performance