Negotiation and Influencing Skills Training Course
Our CPD Accredited Negotiation and Influencing Skills training course is delivered as an open course in Dublin, Cork and Belfast and as an online course. We can also deliver the course in-house just for your business as an in-person course or a live virtual online course.
Negotiation and Influencing Skills Course Highlights
Here’s some quick information about our Negotiation and Influencing Skills course:
- 1-day training course delivered in-person or online
- Delivered anywhere in Ireland as an in-house course
- CPD Accredited - equates to 6.8 hours of CPD
- Booking is easy. Just select a location, a date and hit Book Now!
Course Overview
Course Aim
Our one day Negotiation and Influencing Skills Training Course will provide you with lots of tips and ideas to help you effectively negotiate outcomes and influence others to come around to your way of thinking.
You will find out how to prepare to negotiate and influence effectively, then use a simple structure to present your ideas in a compelling and engaging way. Learn how to overcome resistance and barriers to your ideas.
This Negotiation and Influencing Skills Training Course will introduce you to the skills, behaviours and tactics necessary to achieve all of the above.
Course Objectives
By attending this Negotiation and Influencing Skills training course, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an increased understanding and awareness of what negotiation and influencing is
- Identify through group and individual activities the skills knowledge and understanding necessary to be an effective negotiator whilst developing your own negotiating skills
- Understand the skills required to Influence effectively to bring people around to your way of thinking
- Develop general strategies for successful negotiation and influencing
- Produce win-win resolutions for all parties
- Identify your own negotiation and influencing style and its potential strengths and weaknesses
Course Content
- An introduction to what negotiation and influencing is and the main differences between them.
- What to do before you go into a negotiation
- Determining your walk away point
- Understanding the best approach for the people you will be negotiating with
- Preparations required to Influence
- How to structure your proposal to ensure you sell the benefits
- How to counter proposals from the other party
- Body language and tone of voice when negotiating
- How to bring people around to your way of thinking
- Getting to an agreement that satisfies both parties
- Being assertive during the process
- What to consider when making concessions on your part to get an agreement
- How to counteract arguments
- How to get to a closing point
- How to close the negotiation and ensure the relationship stays in tact
- How to walk away
- Using the learning from the session to deal with conflict and act as a mediator.
Accreditation
Our Negotiation and Influencing Skills training course is accredited by the CPD Standards Office. This demonstrates our commitment to quality and industry best practices and you can be sure that the course you receive has been assessed to ensure it meets its objectives.
This course equates to 6.8 hours of CPD. After completing the course you will receive your CPD certificate and learning path document as record of your attendance.
Download the Course Brochure
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Who Should Attend?
This negotiation and influencing skills training course is for anyone who has to negotiate outcomes or persuade/influence others to buy into ideas.
If you want to:
- Have a practical toolkit to use when negotiating and influencing
- Know how to get yourself into the best position possible when negotiating
- Get people to come around to your way of thinking
- Be able to recognise tactics that other use when negotiating and how to counter them
- Get the best deal possible for you and your business
- Win more business
The course is suitable for people of all levels and in all roles and industries.
What You Get
In-Person Open Courses
A 1 day training course in one of our comfortable venues with one of our highly experienced Negotiation and Influencing Skills trainers. You also get:
- Refreshments throughout the day and lunch
- Course materials to take away
- A course certificate
- Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer
Online Open Training Courses
A 1 day online live virtual training course with one of our highly experienced Negotiation and Influencing Skills trainers. You also get:
- A highly interactive online experience
- Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer
- A digital copy of the course materials from the course
- A digital course certificate
In-House Delivery
A 1 day training course with one of our highly experienced Negotiation and Influencing Skills trainers at your location. You also get
- Course materials for each delegate to take away
- A course certificate
- Reporting on delegate evaluation
- Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer
FAQ
Here are some of the common questions we get asked about our Negotiation and Influencing Skills training course:
Who delivers your Negotiation and Influencing Skills training courses?
What is the difference between negotiating and influencing?
The idea behind Negotiation is coming to an agreement or solution with another person or a group of people to come to a solution that is suitable for all parties involved.
Influencing differs in that it is about bringing people around to your way of thinking. It can be used alongside Negotiation effectively to get to a win-win outcome.
Why would I need to negotiate or influence?
Businesses today are always looking for ways to improve their bottom line and individuals looking to save money. An extremely effective way of achieving this is having the ability to negotiate effectively and influence others.
Negotiation is fast becoming one of the most needed management skills of today’s businesses, and done effectively can save your business £1000's through effective contract negotiations, negotiating with suppliers or negotiating with peers or colleagues.
Why does negotiation and influencing sit in the same course?
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Delivery Options
In-Person Open Courses
Our Negotiation and Influencing Skills course is delivered in-person at venues in Dublin, Cork and Belfast. The cost of our in-person courses includes delegate materials, refreshments throughout the day and lunch. We deliver the course in the following locations:
Online Open Training Courses
Our Online Negotiation and Influencing Skills course is an interactive live virtual course. The content remains the same but the delivery and approach has been re-imagined for the virtual environment. Our online training courses are delivered by Zoom.
In-House Delivery
We can also deliver this Negotiation and Influencing Skills course just for your organisation. We can do this in-person at your office or a location of your choice or as a live virtual training course. We can deliver this via Zoom, Teams, Webex or any other platform that you are currently using and comfortable with.
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