Negotiation Workshops

Negotiation Workshop:
Maximizing Value through
Collaborative Negotiation

Our Maximizing Value through Collaborative Negotiation workshop is a must for anyone who has ongoing relationships with negotiation counterparts.

Using a win-win negotiation framework originally developed at Harvard Law School, participants learn how to protect, if not cultivate, those important relationships while pursuing all of your organization’s substantive goals for a negotiation. They practice applying the negotiation model to a variety of exercises and case-studies. These include customized simulations that recreate the contexts and challenges they face as a group, as well as their own real-life, personally-challenging negotiations.

While other negotiation approaches certainly have their place, this collaborative paradigm is arguably the most essential negotiation tool for today’s sophisticated professionals who often are tasked with two seemingly conflicting objectives:

• obtaining optimal deal terms for themselves and your organization, and
• protecting and increasing goodwill with negotiation counterparts.

This interactive workshop provides the building blocks for simultaneously accomplishing both of these goals.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the benefits and applicability of a collaborative approach to negotiation
• Manage negotiations more effectively
• Improve one’s position in a negotiation
• Achieve better agreement terms
• Protect, if not enhance, relationships with negotiation counterparts
• Better prepare for any negotiation

Learning Components:

• Disaggregating the inherent relational factors from the substantive objectives in a negotiation
• Addressing relational factors and substantive objectives separately and concurrently
• Using relational factors to influence negotiation results
• Knowing how to elicit important information from the other side
• Responding effectively to opposition
• Understanding when and how to walk away from the negotiation table

We invite you to consider our complementary workshop, Having Challenging Conversations as a means of providing your staff with a comprehensive approach to negotiation and collaboration.




Consensus offers a broad menu of negotiation workshops, and designs and delivers fully-customized negotiation workshops that target your unique areas of focus and specific audience needs. Please visit the Consensus website or contact Consensus headquarters at +1 (212) 391-8100 to learn more!