What Does an Excellent Negotiator Look Like?

An important question for HR, team leads and directors. Top-of-the-range negotiators have significant impact on the bottom-line, they can be critical to growth, sometimes even to corporate survival. This article explores the traits and characteristics that first-rate negotiators must possess. An understanding of what an excellent negotiator looks like will lend clarity to talent recruitment [...]

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Negotiation Skills Training: A Buyer’s Guide. Part 1

Part 1: Choosing your training provider and influencing program design. The first negotiation-skills training course I attended as a participant was in the mid-1990s. It was delivered by Peter Davidson, a highly successful negotiator who had worked for Robert Maxwell, the press baron. Peter was a hard man in the negotiating arena and he took [...]

By |2020-02-03T10:26:32+00:00January 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Negotiation Skills Training: A Buyer’s Guide. Part 1

Negotiation Skills Training: A Buyer’s Guide. Part 2

Part 2: Transfer of Theory into Practice. Have you ever attended a really interesting training course, seminar or lecture that provided plenty of insights and wisdom…and then got back into your busy routine and changed nothing? In terms of impact, it’s as if you were never there. If your answer to this question is “No”, [...]

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Negotiation Skills Training: A Buyer’s Guide. Part 3

Part 3: Measuring the impact of training. There’s a good reason why the executive training budget is usually the first to go when times are tough: it’s because many at board-level don’t really believe that it’s money well spent. (In some cases, I would agree!) To ensure that money is well-spent, we need to measure [...]

By |2020-05-20T11:16:44+00:00January 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Negotiation Skills Training: A Buyer’s Guide. Part 3
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