Influence and Persuasion
http://www.bloch2.umkc.edu/professional-education/executive-education-center/course-listings/influence--persuasion--managing-up--across/index.aspx
This course focuses on providing practical tools for building your influence within organizations -- especially in managing up and across -- to get things done. It is designed for emerging leaders who aspire to positions of broader scope and impact. Using a highly interactive format with research, cases, as well as the instructor's executive experiences in complex organizations, we will explore multiple dimensions of political agility; among these are mapping the terrain, leveraging your power sources, building social capital, creating a persuasion campaign, and nurturing authenticity and trust. You will leave with a toolkit of ideas for enhancing your influence -- and results - in your organization.
Date: TBD
Fee: $495
For more information on these programs please contact 816-235-5439
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/executive-development/open-enrollment/programs/negotiation-skills
This two-day negotiation skills program will allow leaders to enhance their current strengths while practicing their negotiation skills. Faculty leaders will help leaders tackle difficult negotiation issues and will arm them with negotiation techniques such as how to defend against probing questions and how to know when and if making the first offer is appropriate.
Dates: May 23-24, 2013
Tuition: $2,700
Location: The Rizzo Conference Center; Chapel Hill, North Carolina
For more information please contact: 1-800-UNC-EXEC or email unc_exec@unc.edu
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University of Richmond The Power of Influence
http://robins.richmond.edu/executive-education/course-list.html
Today more than ever, it is crucial that we have the ability to influence others in a way that maximizes the effectiveness of the organization. But for many of us, that skill does not come naturally. In this seminar, you will focus on the key elements of the influencing process and discover the techniques of getting things done without formal authority.
Key Takeaways
Strengthening Your Credibility: The First Step
Building Relationships using Reciprocity
The Power of Persuasion
Key Communication Skills
Date: April 16, 2013
Fees: $545
Contact: (804) 289-8019 or execed@richmond.edu
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University of South Carolina Leadership through People Skills®
http://www.moore.sc.edu/executiveeducation/leadershipprograms.aspx#peopleskills
One of our highest-rated Executive Education programs, Leadership through People Skills is designed for both the rising star who needs to expand personnel management skills and the seasoned manager looking for new strategies to build staff performance and collaboration.
You will learn:
Effective use of collaborative leadership
Communication skills for direct reports, peers and managers
Effective conflict resolution and mediation
How to manage difficult or negative people
How to facilitate innovation: open exchanges of ideas and information
Program Dates: Dec. 9-12, 2013
Program Tuition: $2450/participant ($1950/participant for two or more)
Contact Number: 803 777-4443 or 800.393.2362
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International Negotiation: How to Overcome Cultural Business Challenges
http://www.moore.sc.edu/executiveeducation/managementprograms.aspx#international
International Negotiation: How to Overcome Cultural Business Challenges shows you how to successfully manage the negotiation framework in an international environment. Case discussions, videos and a negotiation simulation give you the tools to put your new negotiation skills to work immediately.
You will learn:
The effects of culture and other system differences on cross-national negotiations
How to use the five bases of power in negotiation
Techniques mastered by the best negotiators
Differences between zero-sum and relational-based negotiating—and when to use them
How to increase the size of the outcome "pie"
Differences in negotiating styles throughout the world
Program Dates: June 25-26, 2013
Program Tuition: $1350/participant ($1050/participant for two or more)
Contact Number: 803 777-4443 or 800.393.2362
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University of Virginia
Negotiating Success: A Learning Laboratory
http://www.darden.virginia.edu/web/Executive-Education/Open-Enrollment-Program/Negotiation/Negotiating-Success/
Successful business leaders integrate negotiating skills across every aspect of their daily functions. To sustain a competitive advantage, executives must know the powerful strategies used to increase influence, improve relationships, and enhance effectiveness. Negotiating Success: A Learning Laboratory is designed to help novice and experienced managers become better negotiators. The program creates an intensive learning laboratory where participants engage in a series of actual face-to-face negotiations that will help develop and enhance their skills. These negotiations are then followed by in-depth debriefs where the experiences are explored and analyzed to build best practices, insights, and conceptual frameworks shared by successful negotiators.
Using studies that contain a broad range of issues faced by operating managers and other professionals in typical business situations, this program helps participants develop core skills for assessing a negotiation, developing a strategy, and executing it to create better outcomes, sustainable relationships, and more comfortable negotiating processes.
Topics
Conceptual Structures of Competitive and Cooperative Negotiations
Mechanisms for Identifying and Creating Value
Strategies for Ensuring a Good Deal
The Role and Components of Effective Preparation and Analysis
The Use of Value-Creating Alternatives to Achieve One’s Own Self-Interest
The Value of Information, Goals, Opening Discussions, and Predetermined Walkaways
Dates: September 23-27, 2013 (Tentative)
Fee: TBD
Information/Registration
Rebecca Yancey
Phone +1 877.833.3974 U.S./Canada
+1 434.924.3000 Worldwide
Fax +1 434.924.4402
Email: Darden_Exed@darden.virginia.edu
Web: www.darden.virginia.edu/exed
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University of Wisconsin - Madison
Beyond Price: Negotiation Strategies for Practical and Profitable Agreements
http://exed.wisc.edu/Courses/Beyond-Price-Negotiation-Strategies-for-Practical-and-Profitable-Agreements
Preparation, people, and process are three key factors to reaching practical and profitable agreement. This interactive, contract negotiation course is designed to give supply chain professionals the critical skills required in these important areas. The course format provides a solid negotiation definition, negotiation examples and negotiation cases, and the specific guidance needed to negotiate with members of your organization’s supply chain—including customers, suppliers, vendors, and outside service providers—through effective cross culture communication.
You will learn to:
Understand negotiation’s essential attributes: what is negotiation, why should we do it, where should we do it, with whom we should do it, and when should we do it
Define negotiation philosophies and styles; gain negotiating strategies and negotiating techniques
Effectively prepare for a negotiation with hands-on exercises that incorporate computer-based spreadsheets, analysis tools, and Internet references
Become a savvy price negotiator: identify issues and each party’s interests, and then develop valid options, alternatives, and offers
Formulate and execute a negotiation strategy based upon facts and analysis
Conduct the face-to-face negotiation conference: use steps and techniques in reaching agreement and getting closure
Determine what is needed in the post-negotiation phase and how to judge the outcome
Program Dates: March 18-20, 2013; August 26-28, 2013; November 18-20, 2013
Program Tuition: $1,795 USD
Contact Number: 608-441-7357
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How to Influence Without Direct Authority
http://exed.wisc.edu/Courses/How-to-Influence-Without-Direct-Authority
Develop the persuasion and influence skills possessed by effective leaders! Most managers have less formal authority than they need to carry out their responsibilities. Effective, innovative managers know how to use informal, indirect authority to influence key stakeholders: the boss, peers, associates, customers, suppliers and staff.
In this course, you learn how to expand your power and positive influence beyond your formal authority in order to get the job done. Examine characteristics and skills of influential people to understand the sources of informal power. Discover how to analyze situations requiring influence and find out how to build effective relationships upward, downward and laterally. Learn influencing strategies, trust-building skills and tools of team-building and oral and written persuasion. Learn how to:
Build and leverage the power base you already possess
Establish trust, credibility and rapport
Work across organizational lines to get the job done
Use team-development tools
Communicate a convincing, credible professional image
Find ways to overcome bureaucratic impediments
Deliver presentations through in-class practice
Become a positive, powerful advocate for your area and direct reports
Program Dates: February 11-13, 2013; April 29-May 1, 2013; August 12-14, 2013; September 30-October 2, 2013; December 9-11, 2013
Program Tuition: $1,895 USD
Contact Number: 608-441-7357
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Gaining Commitment: Coaching and Motivating in the Workplace
http://exed.wisc.edu/Courses/Gaining-Commitment-Coaching-and-Motivating-in-the-Workplace
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