Contents
Good preparation requires good self-management
- Know and recognize yourself and others better.
- Know and protect your own weak points.
- Resilient in negotiations - immune to personal attacks.
Influencing the climate of negotiations
- Confident despite time pressure.
- Becoming independent of negotiation venues.
- Achieve better results with a good mood.
Unfair and manipulative negotiation
- Know and protect your own points of attack.
- Skillfully absorb low blows and let them run into the void.
- Recognize and reverse manipulation.
Tough negotiating partners
- What to do if your negotiation partner is not interested in a win-win?
- Disarm confrontational negotiation partners .
- What to do if coalitions form against you.
Deadlocked negotiations - overcoming resistance
- How does resistance arise and how can it be resolved?
- What to do in the event of a standstill?
Conflicts in negotiations
- People before business: recognizing and avoiding potential conflicts.
- Conflict staircase: How do I keep my feet on the ground in conflicts?
- Case for a mediator - when does it go no further?
WIN-WIN in extreme situations - is that even possible?
- Win-win is not always possible - how you benefit from it.
- Create added value or demand added value.
- Secure your own power in negotiations.
Negotiations with monopolists
- Strengthen your own position and secure power.
- What to do if you have no alternative?
Learning environment
Once you have registered, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services relating to this training course in your online learning environment.
Your benefit
You
- train tools and techniques to act confidently and successfully in any negotiation situation.
- learn how you can skillfully overcome resistance and deadlocks in negotiations.
- gain valuable knowledge to positively influence the negotiation climate - even under time pressure and regardless of the negotiation venue.
- practice how to recognize unfair and manipulative tactics and how to react appropriately.
- learn to recognize yourself and others better and to protect your weak points.
Methods
Trainer input, peer case consultation, individual and group work, implementation in practical exercises and simulated cases.
Recommended for
Specialists and managers as well as anyone who wants to be better prepared for challenging negotiation partners and optimize their strategies and skills for difficult situations. Basic knowledge and experience in negotiating are assumed.
Further recommendations for "Mastering difficult negotiation situations"
Start dates and details
Tuesday, 21.10.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 22.10.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 25.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 26.03.2026
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.