Negotiating Skills for Work and Life

Bob Oberstein 
Duration: 90 Minutes
Webinar Id: 22514
Instructor: Bob Oberstein 

Price Details

Recorded Webinar
$190. One Attendee
$390. Unlimited Attendees

Unlimited Attendees: Any number of participants

Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months (Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)

Overview:

Everyone negotiates. And if you really think about that some of us, do it 24/7 every day. But too many of us are not as aware of how we might have negotiated differently, or even better to achieve our interests and needs for a better negotiated outcome. This is because we do not all understand the factors and dynamics involved in exactly what it means to successfully negotiate. So, as a result we walk through life smiling in blissful ignorance.

Is your negotiation skill set all it can be? How effectively is your use of the twin arts of listening and questions? Do you have buyer’s remorse and a bad case of the “would of, could of, and should haves” the morning after your negotiation? Do you know how and when to apply the factors of time, information and power to your negotiation? Can you identify and know how and when to use all of the more than 30 kinds of power to make your negotiation as successful as it can possibly be? 

And how to bring and keep the other party interested enough to come to and stay at the table until agreement is reached. Or what about impasse and how do you handle/respond to it? How well do you productively respond to emotional outbursts or someone trying to hijack the negotiation away from its real purpose? 

But regardless of where you currently are on the knowledge and practice of negotiation spectrum this webinar can heighten your awareness about what it truly means to effectively negotiate and positively change all of that for you! 

Areas Covered in the Session:

Participants will have an increased understanding of and be better able incorporate into their negotiating skill set the following: 

  • Negotiating philosophy, approach and standards
    • Win-Win v Win-Lose
    • Interest based
  • Negotiating as a "team sport"
  • Rights of the parties
  • Defining the use of time information and power in negotiation
  • The elements and use of the following types of "power"
    • Legitimacy
    • Competition
    • Weakness/helplessness
    • risk taking
    • Patience
    • Commitment
    • investment
    • Teamwork
    • Expertise 
    • Identification 
    • Respect/dignity 
    • Needs v interests
    • Reward and consequences
    • Traveling
    • Honesty, sincerity and integrity
    • Trust 
    • Imagination/creativity
    • Courtesy
    • Feedback 
    • Permission
    • Instinct 
    • Persistence/tenacity
    • Morality/ethics
    • Precedent 
    • Attitude
  • The elements and use of the skills and strategies for:
    • Persuasive capacity
    • The arts of questions and listening 
    • Proper use of "yes", "no" and "perhaps"
    • Use of agendas (both apparent and hidden)
    • Dealing with denial
    • Bundling/packaging
  • What can (and probably might) go wrong and how to fix it
    • "Supposals" v proposals
    • Impasse
    • Mediation
    • Interest arbitration
    • Tentative agreement(s)
    • Communication glitches
  • Memorializing the agreement

Who Will Benefit:

  • Anyone who interacts with another in daily life including all level managers, supervisors, and executives
  • All Levels of both in-house and outside counsel
  • All levels of Union representation and officers (stewards, Business Representatives, Business Managers, Presidents, and all officers/ board members)
  • All levels of Human ResourcesOrganizational or external investigators, Ombudspersons, and mediators (internal and external)

Speaker Profile
Bob Oberstein is uniquely qualified with over 50 years of Labor Relations experience on both sides of the table in both the private and public sectors where he conducted countless investigations. Bob was also the Director of the Labor Management Relations program at Ottawa University, Phoenix where he also served as Ombudsman for all student, faculty and staff complaints which often involved conducting internal investigations. Bob has several published articles to his credit in addition to his arbitration awards and has also been recognized in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.

Additionally, Bob served on several boards, commissions, and panels where he participated in resolving or adjudicating all manner of workplace issues in a variety of industries. In all these capacities as well as being both mediator and arbitrator Bob often reviewed investigations to determine if they had been properly performed and had merit.

Additionally, he has qualified as an MD-110 investigator for Title VII and other discrimination related charges as well as being a “Lifetime Certificate Holder” of the Association of Workplace Investigators. Moreover, Bob earned a Master of Jurisprudence in Labor and Employment Law from Tulane University's School of Law.

Bob continues to serve the labor management community as well as other groups as an Arbitrator, Mediator, Facilitator, Investigator, Trainer and Educator. Further details about Bob’s unique qualifications can be found on his LinkedIn profile at Linkedin.com/in/boberstein.

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