Negotiation training for the sales professional II

Conducting tough negotiations in sales and distribution more successfully

This training is held in German.
Although negotiations should lead to win-win situations, unfair methods and strategies are often used by negotiation partners . If you want to stand your ground in such tough negotiations, this advanced seminar is the right place for you. Learn how to counter destructive, manipulative and power-oriented negotiation methods with effective know-how. After the training, you will be able to manage any negotiation situation with confidence.

Contents

The information board - knowledge is power

  • Know the BATNA from negotiation partners .
  • The importance of mentors and informants.
  • Analyze the pressure and limits of the negotiating partner.

Negotiating power - improving your own position

  • The power of body language.
  • The power and magic of black rhetoric.
  • Enlarge ZOPA.

The tough negotiation - winning the match

  • Set goals with the traffic light system.
  • Negotiation strategies: Pressure, yielding, playing for time, compromise or integrative negotiation.
  • Destructive, manipulative, power-oriented and profit-oriented methods.

Negotiating in a team - the FBI concept

  • decision makers in the background.
  • Tactical companion:in as coach.
  • Negotiators as winners.

Personal authority, charisma and authenticity in negotiations

  • Keeping the overview in tough negotiations.
  • Mental strength under pressure.

Skillful use of hard methods:

  • promise advantages in the future.
  • Massive attack on the asking price of sales persons.
  • Self-esteem method.
  • Compromise tactics.
  • Divisive tactics.
  • Salami tactics.
  • Fixing.
  • Poker.
  • Targeted uncertainty.
  • Threatening to jump off.
  • Put forward the higher authority.
  • Put in the wrong.
  • Insist on your own point of view.
  • Good guy/bad guy method.
  • Time pressure tactics.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

After this advanced seminar, you will be able to conduct and manage complex negotiations in a superior and results-oriented manner. You will achieve the best possible results even under difficult conditions.

You are able to,

  • to bring even difficult negotiations to a successful conclusion,
  • identify and apply all negotiation strategies and tactics,
  • maintain your position even under pressure,
  • resolve conflicts confidently and
  • significantly increase your margin and closing ratio.

You can work on and solve your personal negotiation problems in this training .

Methods

Practice-oriented case studies, group work, educational talks, discussions, analyses, reflection, trainer feedback.

Recommended for

sales persons with negotiating experience, key account managers, project managers, team leaders as well as junior and executive staff in sales/distribution, area sales managers, sales managers, sales persons from internal and external sales, career changers in sales and distribution, project managers, self-employed entrepreneurs, managing directors, interested purchasers.

Participation in "Negotiation training for the sales professional I" is desirable, but not a prerequisite.

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Attendees comments

"I particularly liked the presentation of different practical examples."

D. M. Heinrich
AOP Health

"I particularly liked the relaxed atmosphere and the high practical component."

Niklas Walter
Huesecken Wire GmbH

"I can recommend the training because of the good knowledge transfer and the very knowledgeable lecturers."

Lukas Bartsch

"They reacted flexibly to the small group of participants and responded to personal wishes."

Karsten Dornheim
Skoda Auto Deutschland GmbH

Seminar evaluation for "Negotiation training for the sales professional II"

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Whitepaper: 10 negotiating tips you should know

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Articles, interviews or whitepapers on the topic

Whitepaper: 10 negotiating tips you should know

How to achieve your goals in negotiations! Because successful negotiations are no coincidence! If you want to achieve top results in negotiations, you need clear strategies and tactics. It is also important to bear in mind a few very basic things that make or break every negotiation.

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Negotiation training : How to really convince your counterpart

Anyone working in sales or distribution must be able to negotiate hard to achieve their goals - even under difficult conditions. By choosing the right strategy, even experienced or unpleasant negotiating partners can be overcome. The advanced seminar "Negotiation training for sales professionals II" is specifically dedicated to these "tough nuts to crack": learn how to see through your counterpart's tactics and react appropriately. This will increase your own negotiating power and bring you a decisive step closer to a successful deal.

How to conduct superior and profit-oriented negotiations

This training on the topic of negotiation is aimed at all employees in key account management as well as managers such as project managers, team leaders, salespeople, account managers, and sales and distribution specialists who want to significantly increase their margin and closing rates. The key to success lies in recognizing and resolving conflicts that can arise during complex negotiations. Our experienced trainer will provide you with the necessary tools to demonstrate mental strength, even under pressure, in all negotiation situations. Learn more in this training the Haufe Akademie How to confidently deal with unfair negotiation strategies and at the same time successfully strengthen your own position. Is your counterpart playing poker, playing for time or threatening to back out? training has visited, knows the appropriate countermeasure to still generate a conclusion.

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5088
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01.07.2025
Cologne
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Mercure Hotel Köln West
Mercure Hotel Cologne West
Horbeller Str. 1, 50858 Cologne
Room rate: € 102,79 plus VAT.
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Tuesday, 01.07.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 02.07.2025

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.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

Transfer coaching bookable
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If you book at the same time as your training, you save 10 % on the price of the transfer coaching of € 390,- excl.
15.09.2025
Frankfurt a. M./Offenbach
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Best Western Macrander Hotel Kaiserlei
Best Western Macrander Hotel Kaiserlei
Strahlenberger Straße 12, 63067 Frankfurt a. M./Offenbach
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Monday, 15.09.2025

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Tuesday, 16.09.2025

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  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. 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.
14.10.2025
Munich
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Holiday Inn Leuchtenbergring München
Holiday Inn Leuchtenbergring Munich
Leuchtenbergring 20, 81677 Munich
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Tuesday, 14.10.2025

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  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. 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.
13.11.2025
Hamburg
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Novotel Hamburg Alster
Novotel Hamburg Alster
Lübecker Straße 3, 22087 Hamburg
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Thursday, 13.11.2025

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Friday, 14.11.2025

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  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. 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.
26.11.2025
Cologne
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PLAZA Premium Hotel Köln
PLAZA Premium Hotel Cologne
Clevischer Ring 121-23, 51063 Cologne
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Wednesday, 26.11.2025

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Thursday, 27.11.2025

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  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. 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.
09.12.2025
Berlin
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centrovital Hotel
centrovital Hotel
Brauereihof 6, 13585 Berlin
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  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. 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.
26.01.2026
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Tuesday, 27.01.2026

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If you book at the same time as your training, you save 10 % on the price of the transfer coaching of € 390,- excl.
25.02.2026
Frankfurt a. M./Bad Nauheim
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Elvis-Presley-Platz 1, 61231 Frankfurt a. M./Bad Nauheim
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  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. 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.
18.05.2026
Düsseldorf
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The participation fee includes

  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. 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.
29.07.2026
Stuttgart
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Steigenberger Graf Zeppelin
Steigenberger Graf Zeppelin
Arnulf-Klett-Platz 7, 70173 Stuttgart
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Wednesday, 29.07.2026

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  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. 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.
28.09.2026
Hamburg
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Novotel Hamburg Alster
Novotel Hamburg Alster
Lübecker Straße 3, 22087 Hamburg
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  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. 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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Fee includes

The participation fee includes

  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. 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: 32080
€ 1.590,- plus VAT.
€ 1,892.10 incl. VAT.
Details
2 days
Limited number of participants
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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