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Influencing, Persuading and Negotiating Skills for International Lawyers Training Course: face to face & live webinar
A two-day workshop for those who need to achieve results through personal influence.
*BOOK EARLY – limited places available!*
Why you should attend
Being able to positively impact negotiations both with clients and colleagues will decide your level of success. In today’s commercial climate, having a wide range of techniques at your fingertips is essential to guarantee your continued high performance.
This two-day personal development workshop has been specifically designed for international lawyers. It offers a unique opportunity to focus on developing advanced influencing, persuading and negotiation skills to enhance your ability to make an impact, improve visibility and influence both clients and colleagues to manage legal risk and achieve business goals.
This course will help you to understand that this is not just a matter of reasons and arguments, but of making sure you are fully aware of your behaviour, your communication style and the impact they have on your colleagues and other interlocutors.
By role modelling such behaviour in the safe environment of the training room, you will become aware of your personal behaviour patterns and what changes you can make to have a more positive influence and reinforce the strong messages you wish to embed.
Key reasons for attending this workshop
This intensive two-day programme, tailored specifically to address situations faced by international lawyers, will:
- Use experiential learning to enhance and build your skills to effectively influence a situation to deliver your desired outcome
- Enhance your competency and confidence in negotiation with clients and colleagues
- Improve your ability to manage conflict and disputes to a successful outcome
- Provide a toolkit of leading and influencing strategies and techniques that you can use to overcome day-to-day challenges
- Identify and recognise different influencing and negotiation styles in yourself and others
- Deliver one-to-one coaching to identify your strengths and weaknesses
- Show you what it means to be an effective international negotiator and how this can benefit your organisation
- Help you master the skills necessary for managing negotiation impasses successfully
Who should attend?
This programme has been specifically designed for all international in-house and private practice lawyers who would like to improve their performance through enhanced influencing, persuading and negotiation skills. Delegates will identify a particular challenge they have encountered to apply the new skills learned during this course.
The key skills include:- Leadership
- Negotiation
- Influencing and impact
- Persuasion
Programme - day 1
Definitions and styles of influencing and persuasion with colleagues and clients
Introduction to a model for influencing, personal effectiveness and persuasion.
- Basic strategies
- What do effective influencers do?
- Personal impact and effectiveness when influencing
- Looking at what we currently do
- Identifying your own preferred influencing style
- Recognising how others with a different preferred influencing style are effectively influenced
Positive and impactful tools for effective influencers and negotiators
- Behaviours that help to reach agreement
- Behaviours that lead to breakdown
- Asking
- Telling
- Probing
- Listening
- Use of silence
- The role of non-verbal communication
- Simulation and feedback
Engagement and determining and building trust for results
- Different types of trust
- Creating and sustaining trust
- Identifying your criteria for trust and other people’s
- Testing your criteria and others for trust
Influence and persuade to lead, manage and negotiate across cultures and organisations
- How different cultures like to be influenced and make decisions
- Hierarchy
- ‘I’ vs ‘we’
- Perception of status
- Dealing with certainty
- Attitudes to time
- Relationship vs task
- Intercultural communication styles
Influencing, creating and managing teams that deliver
- Teams vs groups
- Team dynamics
- Team building
- Coaching teams
- Evaluating teams
- Remote and virtual teams
Time management and meeting strategies for fast-track lawyers
- Extinguishing time bandits
- Strategies to maximise influence in meetings
- Seating for persuasion and influence
- Handling difficult conversations
Programme - day 2
Successful advanced negotiations – objectives and strategy negotiations – internal and external
- Proven tools and techniques
- Objectives – slicing the pie or expanding the pie
- The myth of ‘win/win’
- Creating value – long and short term
- Identifying your objectives and strategy
- Strategy variables – BATNA and ZOPA
Identifying your natural negotiating style and widening your range of styles for success
- Practical exercise
- Recognising your preference and others
- Impact of different styles
- When to apply different styles
Pre-negotiation tools for effective time-saving preparation
- Frames for a gain
- The Issue Map – managing complex negotiations
- Offers
Finding and using negotiating power when you have no authority
- Definition of power
- Sources of power
- Interests
- Positions
Immediate action
- Key learnings
- Defining personal objectives
- Enhancing strengths and meeting challenges
- Where you are going to be – short, medium and long term
- Action plan
Presenter
Arun Singh OBE (More...)
Arun Singh (Prof) OBE, FRSA is an international lawyer and consultant to an international law firm. He was formerly a partner and head of commercial law at KPMG Legal and partner at Masons (now Pinsent Masons).
Arun has advised on disputes and collaborations in a wide range of jurisdictions including Europe, countries in West and East Africa, India, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Pakistan, Libya, Jordan, Syria, the US, Caribbean, Russia, Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, Thailand and Singapore. Arun is cited and ranked in the Chambers Guide to the world’s leading lawyers. He concentrates on international investment, joint ventures, licensing of technology, research and development, M&A, energy, outsourcing and corporate governance in developed and emerging markets; he also handles international legal risk management matters. Arun advises a range of international organisations and is a visiting professor in International Business, Leadership and Negotiations at Salford University Business School, senior associate at Oxford University’s Institute of Legal Practice and teaches international leadership and negotiations at the University of Cambridge. He has facilitated programmes in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the US.
He is a recognised corporate educator and a non-executive director of two international investment companies – one of which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, chairing the Audit Committee and Investment Committee.
He was appointed an OBE by HM the Queen in January 1999 for services to international trade, investment and intercultural management. Arun is an editor and contributor to a number of publications including Business and Contract Law (a Thorogood Special Report) and How to Lead Smart People – Leadership for Professionals (Profile Books), a facilitator for company programmes and an experienced speaker at international corporate conferences.
Continuing professional development
This course qualifies for the following CPD programmes:
- CPD certificate of attendance: 11.00 hours
- General Council of the Bar: 11.50 hours
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| attend Face to face | attend Live webinar | ||||
| 12-13 Nov 2020, Rembrandt Hotel, London | |||||
| 12-13 Nov 2020 | Rembrandt Hotel, London |
GBP 1,099.00 EUR 1,539.00 USD 1,714.00 Until 1 Oct* |
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to attend Face to face |
GBP 899.00 EUR 1,299.00 USD 1,474.00 Until 1 Oct* |
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to attend Live webinar |
| 10-11 May 2021, Venue not yet confirmed | |||||
| 10-11 May 2021 | Venue not yet confirmed |
GBP 1,099.00 EUR 1,539.00 USD 1,714.00 Until 29 Mar 21* |
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to attend Face to face |
GBP 899.00 EUR 1,299.00 USD 1,474.00 Until 29 Mar 21* |
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to attend Live webinar |
| 8-9 Nov 2021, Venue not yet confirmed | |||||
| 8-9 Nov 2021 | Venue not yet confirmed |
GBP 1,099.00 EUR 1,539.00 USD 1,714.00 Until 27 Sep 21* |
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to attend Face to face |
GBP 899.00 EUR 1,299.00 USD 1,474.00 Until 27 Sep 21* |
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to attend Live webinar |
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