Negotiating Digital Success Course

  • IT leaders negotiate with their business partners, vendors, and an array of other internal and external individuals and organizational entities.
  • With internal business partners they negotiate on everything from budget to project prioritization to software application features.
  • With vendors they negotiate on price, delivery dates, service levels, and a myriad of other topics.
  • Elsewhere, they negotiate on service contracts, organizational resources, organizational structure, who leads digital transformation type projects and every other conceivable business and technical issue.
  • As a result, negotiation skills are a key element for both IT organizational success and individual professional career development.

This Course Is Available Live/Synchronously Face-To-Face & Online

This course includes all the standard negotiation topics, such as:

  • Importance and role of negotiation
  • Proper preparation and information exchange
  • Negotiation strategies and tactics
  • Fending off difficult tactics
  • Turning Bargaining into Closing
  • Mastering Conflict Management
  • Negotiation styles

 

This course also, however, takes a holistic view of negotiation by expanding the discussing beyond these standard areas of study to focus on IT and include:

  • The integration of influence techniques into your negotiation tactics
  • Interpersonal communication techniques designed to maximize valued discussion
  • Global negotiation concepts and tactics used throughout the world
  • Observation techniques, such as body language and enhanced listening to better understand the other party
  • These expanded topics greatly enhance your ability to negotiate successfully for your company, your IT organization, and yourself.

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