2 Important Elements Of A Successful In-Company Negotiation Training Program

Think about negotiation as an organisational competency. A regular error made by businesses is to only think about the development of the negotiation skills of individuals. If your organisation relies solely on the negotiation skills of individuals it means that you will always be subject to the dangers associated with the movement of people. What happens when your star negotiator is advanced or decides to join up with your competitor or supplier?

Your organisation's ability to negotiate successfully is dependent on 4 element:

* The negotiation strategy (or lack thereof)

* The negotiation process

* The negotiation skills of individuals

* The negotiation supporting network

Enhancing an individual's negotiation skills is clearly an important factor in developing the negotiation capability, but a mistake is easily made by investing in negotiation skills training without having contemplated the two steps that should head negotiation skills enhancement; an organisational negotiation strategy definition and an organisational negotiation process design or redesign.

Investing in a negotiation skills development initiative without having considered the negotiation strategy & supporting process can be compared to investing in the training of soldiers for battle independent of the general strategy for the war.

The 2nd oversight is that companies will invest in the development of the negotiation skills of individuals but will then not create a supporting network for deployment of these skills. Using the war analogy, this would be like training soldiers how to use their weapons and then not providing them with the ammunition and materials needed to keep the weapons serviceable in action.

If you are thinking about investing in a negotiation skills development initiative and you are not prepared to:

* define or refine a negotiation strategy,

* design or redesign the negotiation process, and

* produce a best practice negotiation supporting environment

I would like to propose that you focus your money elsewhere as you are likely to receive a better return on your investment!

Another tips is to ensure that your negotiation training initiative includes individual negotiation preference profiling.

An individual's negotiation capability is made up of 3 factors:

* Their competence (that which they are capable of doing)

* Their preferences (that which they like to do)

* Their behaviour (that which they in reality do)

Contrary to popular certainty, the biggest influencing factor on your negotiation behaviour is not your competence but your preferences. Think about it, if your ability to do something was dependent on your competence to do it, then nobody would smoke, we would all eat 5 fruits and vegetables daily and we would all participate in exercise on a regular basis.

The truth is that you have a habit to behave in negotiation (as in life) according to your preferences. You could therefore convincingly say that your preferences in life have a far bigger impact on your behaviour than your competencies. It is also one of the biggest mistakes made by businesses in recruitment and negotiation assessments, is to test the competence of people without attaining an understanding of their preferences.

In other words, the fact that you are able to do something doesn't mean that are actually going to do it. In the context of negotiation skills development, this means that it is essential that each individual understands their own preferences with regards their approach to negotiations together with their competencies and equally, that they are made aware of the fact that different individuals and different cultures will have varying preferences when it comes to negotiations.

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