The environment of current competitive business requires an increased focus on skills in negotiating and communication, and new processes such as planning and organizing work tasks to improve productivity. Additional skills such as delegating to empower staff to higher performance and change management also help today’s modern leader create success.
Negotiation is inevitably at the heart of every process to achieve what you want or need to build an alliance or work with consultants or suppliers. At the end of each negotiation, the goal is to seek a win-win agreement. Negotiation, Persuasion, and Critical Thinking are the skills covered in the first half of this course.
Businesses and indeed, all organizations, find themselves needing more productive methods of planning, more appropriate goals, and effective means of accomplishing work. A focus on using productive best practices allows for effective and efficient management of work and making changes in the organization. Planning and Organizing Work, and Delegating to build a strong team are the skills learned in the second half of this course.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Recognise aims for key alliances – how to develop and manage them.
Develop an effective plan and strategy for negotiations with allies.
Practice and develop skills for influencing others – especially those who are vital to your long-term business development strategy.
Gain confidence as a trusted negotiator who knows which behaviours to adopt for each stage of the negotiation.
Successfully apply the principles of persuasion to key negotiation situations.
Recognize internal and external influences on our daily planning.
Understand and develop skills necessary to complete work on time.
Learn how to organize work and projects to complete them successfully.
Understand the characteristics of colleagues who do work in our teams.
Develop positive interpersonal techniques for better team relationships.
Practice and develop skills for influencing others.
Gain confidence as a negotiator.
Know what behavior to adapt at each stage of the negotiation.
Recognize and counter the most common negotiating ploys.
Head of departments
Managers
Supervisors
Team leaders
Project managers
Employees who are the potential to be promoted to a managerial or supervisory position
Characteristics of a strategic alliance – effects of market dominance
Culture and perception – and effects in building alliances
Building trust through communication and achieving results for the alliance (bearing in mind its “life cycle”)
Personality - strengths & weaknesses in negotiations
Minimizing communication blockers to maintain relationships
Development review and action planning
Challenges of meetings – group and individual strategies
Positive influence of listening in challenging situations - good and bad news!
Applying rules of influential presentations to maximize the impact
Maintaining compatible body language & using logic, credibility and passion
Feedback and action planning
Steps in win/win negotiation
The keys to collaborative bargaining in partnering
Leverage: What it is and how to use it
Negotiation tactics and ploys
Dealing with difficult negotiators and barriers
Ethics in negotiation
Listening and responding to signals and informal information
Recovering from reversals, errors and challenges
Developing a climate of trust
Higher-level conversation techniques
Concentrating action on the needs of alliance partners
Gaining control and using information – formal and informal
Identifying sources and testing assumptions
Framing the problem
Decision making under pressure
New systems & strategic thinking
Overview and context of organizational change and the impact on planning and organization
Identifying a standard of excellence in the organization, team and personal work
Review of management processes and skill areas
Using a planning process to set goals and get projects started
Integrating goals, scope, work structure and management planning
Identifying initial resource requirements
Identifying risk techniques that affect work assignments, priorities, and deadlines
Communication that responds to who, what where, when, how, why
Understanding the importance of quality planning in work assignments
Understanding how people approach their work
Planning for time management, scheduling and meeting deadlines
Using proper delegation skills to empower staff
Improving prioritizing of work and work tasks
Planning for delegation responsibility and authority
Identifying the skills required to obtain the help of others
The importance of group skills to achieve team success
The importance of interpersonal skills in making personal and team decisions
Empowering the team through the development of interpersonal skills
The importance of versatility in team relations
Innovation and improvement for personal and team change
Identification of change processes and human change
Techniques to set personal and team change goals
Dealing with people who do not want to change
Developing an action plan for personal and team change
Participants will learn about the field of communication for development in this course (C4D). In order to encourage participation and engagement with kids, families, communities, and networks for positive social and behavioral change in both development and humanitarian contexts, C4D is an evidence-based strategy that makes use of a variety of communication tools, channels, and approaches. It incorporates knowledge and ideas from social, behavioral, and communication sciences.
In order to meet these new challenges and take advantage of chances for innovation to bring about behavior and social change, participants in this three-day course will need new and improved communication competencies.
Too often company executives and professionals spend most of their time fixing day-to-day problems. They react to problems, rather than focusing on what they would like the company to be and then on making it happen. This program focuses on changing the way we think from reacting (responding to day-to-day problems, fixing and repairing) to developing plans for what we want to have happened and then implementing the plans.
We all operate in an increasingly complex commercial and professional environment that requires us to negotiate on a daily basis not only with customers, clients, suppliers and contractor, but also with managers, fellow employees and colleagues within our own organisation.
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