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  MWI'S ADVANCED NEGOTIATION SKILLS WORKSHOP – DEALING WITH DIFFICULT TACTICS NEGOTIATION WORKSHOP - click here to register for this course

Building off of the foundational skills and frameworks introduced in MWI’s Negotiation Skills Workshop, MWI’s Dealing with Difficult Tactics course will offer helpful advice, tools and additional frameworks designed to address the most difficult negotiators, complex scenarios and challenging tactics.

While graduates of MWI’s Negotiation Skills Workshop understand the value of taking a collaborative approach to negotiation and recognize the benefits of negotiating in a way that helps the parties develop a long-term, durable, mutually beneficial relationship for sustained value generation, many others do not. In fact, unfortunately, either by learning from others or even from taking other workshops on the subject that advocate for a different approach, many negotiators believe it is better to be “difficult” in a negotiation, utilizing manipulative tactics, throwing the other side off balance in order to “win” the negotiation.

This workshop is designed to address those difficult behaviors. Rather than responding in kind and degenerating the negotiation, often to all parties’ detriment, it is important to engage and to educate the other side on the benefits of collaboration, bringing them on board with a more productive approach that is proven to better meet the needs of all parties over the long-term.

This session is designed to help participants productively address:

• Manipulative tactics
• Threats
• Discrepancies in information and perceptions
• Stonewalling and other disengaging behavior
• Lack of accountability and follow through with agreements

Participants in this advanced MWI Negotiation Skills Workshop can expect to learn how to:

• Build a working language that will allow them to speak productively with difficult people;
• Diagnose and address unproductive behavior;
• Lead the Interest-based process of negotiation;
• Respond in difficult negotiation situations without further escalating the problem;
• Respond to threats and otherwise uncooperative behavior;
• Separate the people from the problem; and
• Communicate clearly and effectively in order to build and improve working relationships.
 

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Conceptual Foundation of MWI’s Negotiation Skills Workshops

MWI's Negotiation Skills Workshops build on the ideas and frameworks developed by Professor Roger Fisher and his colleagues at the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School.  Concepts for this session will be drawn from additional publications and negotiation theory, which expand on the ideas generated in Getting to Yes. Among others, this course will specifically draw from: Difficult Conversations, Getting Past No, Beyond Reason, and The Power of a Positive No.


WORKSHOP METHODOLOGY

Following the teaching model developed at the Harvard Negotiation Project, MWI uses a hands-on, skill-based method of teaching negotiation. Core concepts and frameworks are presented to participants in an interactive style. Building on the presentations, participants will have opportunities to apply the theory they have learned by negotiating case simulations with other participants.

Case simulations are drawn from teaching materials developed and used by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. After completing each case, instructors lead participants through a systematic analysis of their negotiation. Emphasis is placed on bringing out the experience and expertise of the group and organizing their ideas into a useful set of guidelines for negotiating in the future.

The training workshop will focus on: using a proven systematic framework to prepare, conduct and review negotiations; participating in exercises designed to enhance and highlight particular skills; watching demonstrations of newly acquired negotiation tools and techniques; and debriefing exercises in small group discussions. Special emphasis will be placed on applying negotiation theory to real-world scenarios challenging participants.


WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Anyone who has previously graduated from MWI’s (or any other providers’) Negotiation Training Program.  This program is especially useful for:

• Sales or Purchasing Professionals
• Executives
• Managers
• Human Resources Professionals
• Customer Service Representatives
• Business Consultants
• Mediators and other ADR Professionals
• Attorneys
• Educators
• Social Service Professionals
. . . and other professionals interested in improving their ability to proactively and successfully negotiate in difficult circumstances with clients, colleagues, suppliers, partners and others.


PARTICIPANTS WILL RECEIVE

• One full day of advanced negotiation training;
• An interactive, hands-on, skill-building approach;
• Case studies, role-plays and opportunities for small group discussions;
• Tools for preparing for and reviewing challenging negotiations;
• Negotiation manual and accompanying resources;
• A low-risk and safe environment for learning;
• A Certificate of Completion
• Morning and afternoon refreshments
• CEU’s: An application is pending for 8 Category 1 Continuing Education Hours for relicensure with NASW and 8 Category 1 Continuing Education Hours with MMCEP for LMHCs.


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TRAINER

David Seibel is a negotiation trainer, conflict management consultant, mediator and professor in the fields of effective negotiation, communication and mediation. Specializing in commercial and family contexts, David's conflict management practice includes well over a decade of public and private service. David is associate faculty at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, and formerly at Georgetown University Law School. Mr. Seibel mediates a wide range of criminal and civil disputes, and advises organizations and individuals on negotiation and effective communication. He has taught related courses to corporate and non-profit clients all over the world, including negotiation skills workshops for the newly formed government in Iraq. His consulting practice includes advising the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, facilitating strategic planning sessions for senior executive teams, and coaching individuals through complex negotiations in business and divorce contexts. David obtained his Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School, where he served as President of the Harvard Mediation Program, and later as Sacks Fellow at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School. His Fellowship focused on the advocacy, negotiation and mediation of family matters. As an associate at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston, Mr. Seibel practiced trusts and estates, and then corporate law.

 

PRAISE FOR MWI'S NEGOTIATION SKILLS WORKSHOPS

"Trainers were poised, knowledgeable, catalytic and they genuinely seemed to enjoy what they were doing and to enjoy the company of all of us. That’s a treat!"

"This was an extremely powerful and far reaching workshop with its greatest strength lying in the people involved in it."

"Great course - most practical training I’ve had in a long time."

 

REGISTRATION AND COST 

The cost of the training is $375 per person (or $325 if registered a month in advance). Please call 800-348-4888 x24 or send an email to negotiation@mwi.org for a brochure and registration form. Space is limited to 30 participants. 

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Please contact Chuck Doran, Executive Director at 800-348-4888 x22 or cdoran@mwi.org for more information about MWI's Negotiation Programs and Services.

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