Conducting and winning international negotiations professionally

Focus on success factors, psychology and intercultural strategies

This training is held in German.
Negotiations in an international context are particularly challenging. Knowledge of cultural influences is just as important as a good negotiating technique. In this training course, you will learn about the success factors of professional negotiation and how to use them skillfully in an international context. You can also try out your negotiation skills in English.

Contents

Become a professional negotiator!

Short & sweet: the basics of negotiating

  • The 5 basic strategies of negotiation.
  • He who asks, leads: Questioning techniques for negotiations.
  • Success factors of negotiation & the success factors according to Harvard.
  • The "master model of negotiation" and the phases of contemporary negotiation.

Psychology of negotiation

  • Psycho-logical or more factual-logical? Addressee-oriented design of arguments and their application through effective argumentation patterns.
  • The psychology of persuasion and possible applications of psychological mechanisms of action in the participants' everyday negotiations.

A basic understanding of your own culture

  • What is culture?
  • Cultural dimensions, self-perception and perception by others.
  • What is actually typically German? - The influence of one's own culture on negotiating style.

Successful international negotiations

  • Intercultural communication - impulses for the negotiating floor.
  • Other countries, other customs - coherent behavior in an intercultural context.
  • Kiss, bow or shake hands? Fault lines and pitfalls on the international stage.
  • Cultural IQ - dealing with prejudices and hypotheses.
  • Strategies for building lasting intercultural relationships.

Negotiations on the international stage

  • Dealing with "difficult" discussion and negotiation partners.
  • Recognizing and overcoming culture shocks.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.

Your benefit

The participants

  • know which aspects they should pay attention to in international negotiations.
  • gain a better understanding of the impact of their own behavior in other cultures and practice alternative ways of behaving.
  • train how to deal with different negotiation partners and review their own negotiation style.
  • learn how to find out the true motives and wishes of their counterparts.
  • learn how to recognize misunderstandings and develop viable options.
  • learn to assert themselves against manipulative techniques.
  • receive tips and professional feedback on their real-life situations.

Methods

Expert input, role plays plus feedback, case studies from the participants' own practice, discussion of participants' questions, group and individual work.

Recommended for

(Junior) managers, decision makers, specialists and all employees who want to prepare for negotiations with international partners .

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Attendees comments

"I particularly liked the group size and the interactive exercises."

Nils Rawert
Smithers MSE Ltd.

Seminar evaluation for "Leading and winning international negotiations professionally"

4.3 from 5
with 81 reviews
training content:
4.2
Content comprehensibility:
4.5
Practical relevance:
4.1
Trainer expertise:
4.6
Participant orientation:
4.4
Method variety:
4.3
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2560
€ 1.540,- plus VAT
2 days
in 3 locations
3 Events
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13.10.2025
Berlin
Booking number: 2560
€ 1.540,- plus VAT.
€ 1,832.60 incl. VAT.
Venue
Mercure Hotel Berlin Tempelhof
Mercure Hotel Berlin Tempelhof
Hermannstraße 214-21, 12049 Berlin
Room rate: € 133,68 plus VAT.
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Monday, 13.10.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, 14.10.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Transfer coaching bookable
2 hours of transfer coaching - live and online with your trainer ensures that you can put what you have learnt into practice in your day-to-day work.
If you book at the same time as your training, you save 10 % on the price of the transfer coaching of € 390,- excl.
15.04.2026
Frankfurt a. M.
Booking number: 2560
€ 1.540,- plus VAT.
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Novotel Frankfurt City
Novotel Frankfurt City
Lise-Meitner-Straße 2, 60486 Frankfurt a. M.
Room rate: € 106,81 plus VAT.
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Wednesday, 15.04.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Thursday, 16.04.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Transfer coaching bookable
2 hours of transfer coaching - live and online with your trainer ensures that you can put what you have learnt into practice in your day-to-day work.
If you book at the same time as your training, you save 10 % on the price of the transfer coaching of € 390,- excl.
23.09.2026
Cologne
Booking number: 2560
€ 1.540,- plus VAT.
€ 1,832.60 incl. VAT.
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PULLMAN Cologne
PULLMAN Cologne
Helenenstraße 14, 50667 Cologne
Room rate: € 174,- plus VAT.
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Limited number of participants

Wednesday, 23.09.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Thursday, 24.09.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Transfer coaching bookable
2 hours of transfer coaching - live and online with your trainer ensures that you can put what you have learnt into practice in your day-to-day work.
If you book at the same time as your training, you save 10 % on the price of the transfer coaching of € 390,- excl.
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2 days
Limited number of participants
Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Transfer coaching bookable
2 hours of transfer coaching - live and online with your trainer ensures that you can put what you have learnt into practice in your day-to-day work.
If you book at the same time as your training, you save 10 % on the price of the transfer coaching of € 390,- excl.
Booking number: 2560
€ 1.540,- plus VAT.
€ 1,832.60 incl. VAT.
Details
2 days
Limited number of participants
Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Transfer coaching bookable
2 hours of transfer coaching - live and online with your trainer ensures that you can put what you have learnt into practice in your day-to-day work.
If you book at the same time as your training, you save 10 % on the price of the transfer coaching of € 390,- excl.
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