Leadership & Retention

Your managers negotiate all day. Teach them how.

Every manager negotiates constantly: for budget, for headcount, across teams, and with the people they lead. Almost none were trained for it. Our negotiation workshop gives them a repeatable method, so they reach better outcomes without spending the relationship.

Why it matters

The deals that decide your quarter happen inside your own building.

The negotiations that shape a company are the daily internal ones: whose project gets the resource, how a conflict resolves, what a stretched team takes on. Handled badly, they leak value and push good people out. Handled well, they compound trust.

Most leaders either concede to keep the peace or win the point and lose the relationship. A method gives them a third option: a structured approach to preparation, framing, trade-offs, and closing that works with a peer, a report, or a vendor.

What the workshop covers

  • Prepare like a professional. Interests, alternatives, and the trades you will and will not make, mapped before you are in the room.
  • Frame and anchor. How to open, when to move first, and how to shape the conversation without posturing.
  • Negotiate internally. Managing up, resolving cross-team conflict, and saying no without damage.
  • Close and keep the relationship. Reach a durable yes the other side wants to honor, not just one they signed.

Outcomes

Better outcomes, and relationships that survive them.

A shared method

One common framework instead of a dozen personal styles, so every internal negotiation gets faster and less political.

Fewer relationships spent

They win the substance without spending the relationship, instead of trading long-term trust for a short-term point.

Confidence in hard moments

The conversations managers avoid, the pushback, the no, the reallocation, get handled instead of deferred.

Questions

Negotiation workshop questions

How long is it?

A focused one-day session by default, with a half-day option. In person or live online.

Who is it for?

Managers, senior individual contributors, and leaders. It is built for internal and everyday negotiation, not commercial sales training.

How many people?

Best in groups of 8 to 20 so everyone practices. Larger groups by arrangement.

What does it cost?

A fixed fee per session by group size. Tell us the headcount and we will scope it.

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Leadership Coaching

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Salary Benchmark

Going into a pay negotiation without market data is negotiating blind.

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Have a team that negotiates?

Give your leaders a method, not just instincts.

Tell us the group and the level, and we will scope a workshop.

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