Presenting, negotiating and asserting yourself confidently with decision makers
Convincing stakeholders - achieving good results online and in person
Contents
Good deal
- Clarity about your own goals.
- Clarity about your own options.
- Clarity about the objectives of the "other side".
- The Harvard Approach.
Understanding decision makers and stakeholders
- Role, tasks and scope of decision makers.
- What makes your contacts tick?
- Different types need different approaches.
- The right preparation and the right strategy.
Structure of a successful negotiation
- Relevant points before the appointment.
- Your "inner and outer" preparation.
- How to enter into negotiations skillfully.
- Balance and dramaturgy: setting the right pace and priorities.
Argumentation Techniques
- Present clear and logical arguments.
- Weigh stakeholder criteria.
- Balancing numbers, examples, and emotions.
Home stretch and conclusion
- How a good conclusion leads to a good conclusion.
- An intermediate goal can also be a good conclusion.
- Commitment and next steps.
Presentations in the context of negotiations
- Importance and structure of presentations in negotiations.
- Professional presentations - without being pretentious.
- Target-oriented scope and realistic time planning.
Queries, resistance and conflicts
- Recognize, understand and incorporate different reactions.
- Respond confidently to power and status games.
- Using resistance and conflicts as an opportunity.
Learning environment
Your benefit
- You'll gain clarity about your goals and your options.
- You can prepare your presentations and negotiations in a more structured way and deliver them with greater confidence.
- You'll be better equipped to achieve the best possible results in your presentations and negotiations.
- You know how to better handle unexpected situations and disruptions.
- You are familiar with the various roles and types of decision makers stakeholders.
Methods
Input from the experts, practical case studies, numerous exercise sequences with individual feedback, transfer aids for your own work.
Recommended for
Specialists and managers who want to successfully present and negotiate ideas, projects and offers with decision makers and stakeholders.
Questions about the seminar content
This training you distill your message so that it is decision makers relevant to decision makers . Instead of presenting a lot of unfiltered details, you’ll learn to clearly identify goals, benefits, options, and decision-making criteria. This will enable you to better structure conversations and presentations, get to the point more quickly, and organize your arguments in a way that remains clear even under time pressure.
Technical quality is important, but decision makers usually also decision makers ideas, projects, and proposals based on risk, benefits, feasibility, political impact, and personal relevance. In this training how to present your expertise in a way that resonates with different types of decision-makers. You’ll practice effectively combining numbers, examples, and emotional elements so that your arguments are not only accurate but also persuasive.
Effective negotiations thrive on a clear stance and respectful interaction with the other side. Success comes to those who consistently advocate for their own interests while remaining open to viable solutions. That’s why, in this training , you’ll work training clearly identifying your goals and options without getting unnecessarily stuck. You’ll practice distinguishing between interests and positions, developing solutions, and advocating for your concerns persuasively. This will strengthen your ability to achieve good results without straining relationships.
People make decisions from different perspectives. Some focus primarily on numbers and cost-effectiveness, while others focus on risks, implementation, acceptance, or strategic impact. That’s exactly why training will help you better understand training , responsibilities, scope of influence, and typical ways of thinking of decision makers stakeholders. This will allow you to tailor your arguments more effectively and avoid missing the mark on the actual decision-making criteria.
If you don’t know in advance what outcome you want to achieve, you’ll quickly end up with a friendly conversation that leads to no concrete commitments. That’s why this training will teach you to clarify, even before the meeting, what outcome is realistic and meaningful. You don’t always have to reach a final decision right away. Even an interim goal can be valuable if it’s agreed upon in a binding manner. This allows you to steer conversations in a more focused way and ensure that concrete progress is made after the discussion.

Learning and shaping a sustainable future
The ability to make decisions and act decisively on them are skills for the future that you will learn in this training , among others. According to our partner, the Inner Development Goals Initiative (IDGs), you are also contributing to a sustainable future. This is because the IDGs have scientifically and globally identified the future skills needed to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). What exactly does that mean? Find out more.
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Start dates and details

Thursday, 03.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 04.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Tuesday, 03.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 04.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Monday, 07.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 08.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Tuesday, 09.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 10.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Wednesday, June 23, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, June 24, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Tuesday, October 5, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, October 6, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.