Contents
Test your negotiating style, intensive working atmosphere
- Situational work on your own practical cases and predefined cases, maximum practical transfer thanks to small group sizes, training share of around 80% and support for the attendees by a professional, experienced negotiation coach.
- Including the development of individual strategies and tactics for even better negotiation success.
Strategic and tactical negotiation skills - negotiating with suppliers, key accounts, the management, monopolists, etc.
- Main topics depending on the attendees.
- Negotiations with suppliers, monopolists, key accounts, the GF/CEO and internal interfaces, negotiating large purchasing volumes/big deals, framework agreements, etc.
- Strategic negotiation.
- Managing suppliers.
- Preparing, conducting and following up negotiations, the negotiation cycle.
- Strategic and tactical negotiation management: away from pure price negotiation towards total cost optimization in purchasing; negotiation strategies, tactics and techniques.
- Creative negotiation.
- Negotiating in a team.
- Question/argumentation techniques, building chains of argumentation.
The art of negotiating rhetoric
- Verbal/non-verbal language.
- Dealing with inconspicuous, manipulative sales rhetoric.
- Silence - the supreme discipline in negotiating.
Enhancing the appearance and impact of your own personality, strengthening your charisma
- How much empathy, how much will to win is appropriate?
- Strengthen charismatic charisma.
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
- Negotiating power is strengthened to make it easier to achieve the goal.
- In an intensive working atmosphere, you will receive targeted and effective preparation for the next real negotiation situation, accompanied by an experienced negotiation coach. You will strengthen your negotiating power and reach your goal more easily.
Methods
Situational negotiation training - accompanied by an experienced negotiation coach, approx. 80 % training share, max. 8 attendees. Training based on participants' own practical cases and predefined cases, collegial practical advice, video analysis, work aids, best-practice examples, exchange of experience, discussion, trainer input.
Recommended for
purchasing managers, team/group leaders in purchasing, strategic purchasers. Experienced negotiators. Furthermore, attendees from related interfaces such as logistics, quality management, development, etc. are addressed. For attendees with sound and multi-layered negotiating experience.
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Start dates and details
Tuesday, 14.10.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 15.10.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 03.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 04.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 03.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 04.06.2026
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.