Alliances in business are a natural route for development – but not all contracting relationships can truly be seen as alliances. A good, trusting and open relationship is essential for a long-term and successful alliance – and this needs to be practiced by the negotiators involved. Negotiation is inevitably at the heart of every process to achieve what you want, whether in an agreement, bargaining for an item, or closing a deal. At the end of each negotiation, the goal is to seek a win/win outcome – an essential characteristic of long-lasting alliances. This course provides an essential framework for effective negotiation — which will be vital for building and exploiting an alliance - from building the relationship, critical thinking to prioritize goals
Develop a framework for analyzing current alliances and develop an effective plan and strategy for negotiations
Practice and develop skills for influencing others
Appropriate behaviors for each negotiation stage to deliver results
Recognize and counter the most common negotiating ploys
Prioritize and plan their negotiation strategy through critical thinking
Describe a framework for the analysis of business alliances
Understand how to apply influencing skills during the negotiation phase
Recognize and manage difficult negotiators who use aggressive tactics during negotiation
Understand the key principles of persuasion and its importance to negotiation
Personnel from a wide range of business disciplines
Delegates wishing to develop negotiation skills in alliance building
Delegates who regularly work with external suppliers or customers
Departmental Heads requiring to form interdepartmental alliances to achieve results
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
Reviewing strategic alliances and building personal action
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
As a supervisor, the success of your organization rests in your hands. This course provides you with the opportunity to develop highly effective and essential supervisory skills that will strengthen teamwork and organizational success. Also, this course will help you manage everyday operations with greater ease. Furthermore, it will help you leverage both your managerial and people skills to meet your new challenges as the 21st-century supervisor.
This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
A five-day course on the practical aspects of piping and pipeline design, integrity, maintenance, and repair. The participants will obtain an in-depth understanding of the ASME B31 code rules and API standards, their technical basis, and practical application to field conditions.
Corporate/Public governance and risk management are critical There is increasing attention being paid to corporate governance and risk management in business schools and among legislators.