Negotiations. Conflict. Be Prepared.
Negotiation Training
Training for high-stakes negotiations, tailored to your specific challenges.
Negotiation excellence is not an innate talent reserved for a select few. It is a skill that can be learned, refined and mastered. It is built on the combination of strategic thinking, effective communication and sound business judgement.
These capabilities can be developed deliberately. That is where our training begins.
Inhouse Trainings
|Building negotiation capability where it matters most.
Our inhouse negotiation training combines evidence-based insights, practical methods and your team’s real negotiation challenges. The result is a highly interactive learning experience that not only builds knowledge but also develops negotiation confidence and capability in a systematic and lasting way.
Who it is for
Whether for executives, project leaders, procurement and sales teams, supply chain managers, HR professionals or business development teams, we design negotiation training tailored to your roles, industry requirements and specific challenges.
Your benefits
- No off-the-shelf solutions. Every training programme is tailored to your audience, industry and objectives.
- Precise needs analysis. We identify the capabilities that will create the greatest impact and eliminate unnecessary content.
- Relevant content. Evidence-based frameworks combined with real negotiation cases from your day-to-day business.
- Your own cases at the centre. Current negotiation challenges are integrated directly into the training.
- Practical learning methods. Simulations, role plays and realistic negotiation scenarios make learning immediately applicable.
- High-impact learning formats. Interactive, challenging and designed to maximise engagement without wasting valuable time.
- Optional coaching, individual sparring and follow-up modules to reinforce learning and ensure lasting impact.
By the end of the training, your team will not simply feel prepared. They will be equipped to negotiate with clarity and sound judgement, even in complex situations and under pressure.
Negotiation Deep Dive Bootcamps
|An intensive learning experience for high-stakes negotiations.
Our negotiation bootcamps are designed for professionals who want to develop more than negotiation techniques. Over two to three intensive days, we combine strategic insight, practical application, personalised feedback and structured reflection in an immersive learning experience that challenges participants both intellectually and personally.
Content and objectives
- Work on real negotiation challenges drawn from your day-to-day business
- Targeted learning modules to sharpen strategic thinking and decision-making
- Simulations, live cases and role plays that uncover blind spots and strengthen performance
- Practice of critical conversations, including handling objections, strategic messaging and confident executive presence
- Focus topics tailored to your team’s specific needs
Typical situations
- Preparing newly appointed leaders for challenging negotiations
- Giving an experienced team fresh perspectives and new strategic impulses
- Closing capability gaps behind recurring negotiation challenges
- Creating a common level of negotiation excellence across teams with different levels of experience
- Preparing for upcoming negotiation-intensive periods
- Preparing for major internal and external negotiations with high strategic importance
You leave the bootcamp with proven negotiation strategies and practical tools you can apply immediately in your most important negotiations.
Negotiation Academy
|Building negotiation capability systematically.
Modular, tailored and designed for lasting impact, the Negotiation Academy is our comprehensive development programme for organisations. Its curriculum combines proven negotiation methods with strategic thinking, behavioural psychology and structured reflection to develop high-performing negotiators over the long term.
What makes the Academy different
- 100 % tailored to your organisation. Structure, content and learning objectives are fully aligned with your organisation’s needs.
- Modular and scalable. The curriculum builds progressively, allowing participants to deepen their knowledge and develop their capabilities over time.
- Application-focused. Participants work continuously on their own negotiation cases, ensuring immediate relevance and practical value.
- Reflection-driven. Individual negotiation styles, behavioural patterns and interpersonal dynamics are explored and developed deliberately.
- Designed for lasting impact. Practical assignments, peer learning and optional sparring sessions help embed new capabilities into everyday practice.
- Organisation-wide standards. We develop checklists, playbooks, processes, tools and negotiation guidelines that strengthen consistency across the organisation.
Typical participants
- Executives and specialists with significant negotiation responsibility
- Portfolio and programme managers, project leaders and process owners
- Professionals in HR, Sales, Procurement, Legal and R&D
- International, cross-functional or geographically distributed teams
Where appropriate, multiple learning cohorts can run in parallel to address different roles, experience levels or regions.
Open Trainings
|Develop your negotiation capability beyond your own organisation.
Our open training programmes provide an opportunity for intensive learning beyond organisational structures and familiar ways of working. Delivered in focused one- to two-day formats, they combine evidence-based methods with practical application as well as real negotiation challenges.
What to expect
- Compact formats with real depth. Intensive programmes with a clear focus, covering topics from strategic negotiation leadership to conflict dynamics.
- Space for reflection and development. Gain deeper insight into your own negotiation style, recognise recurring patterns and develop new strategic approaches.
- A trusted learning environment. Confidential and interactive, professionally facilitated to encourage open discussion and meaningful learning.
You can find our current open training programmes on our Workshops & Events page (available in German).
Individual Coaching
|Negotiation excellence begins with personal clarity.
Our individual coaching provides a confidential space for strategic reflection and sparring. Discreet, and fully tailored to your situation, it focuses on your specific challenges: from preparing for difficult conversations to strengthening your personal negotiation approach and executive presence.
Typical situations
- Preparing for challenging negotiations, for example with internal stakeholders, investors or supervisory boards
- Strengthening executive presence and negotiating with confidence under pressure
- Working through internal barriers or difficult conflict dynamics
- Supporting personal development in the context of leadership and decision-making responsibility
How we work
- Confidential, trusted and grounded in your reality
- Strategic, pragmatic and tailored to your objectives and specific situation
- Available as an ongoing sparring partner throughout multiple phases of a negotiation, where appropriate
You gain greater clarity, stronger executive presence and the confidence to navigate even the most demanding negotiation situations with composure and conviction.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about negotiation training
Who is negotiation training for?
Our negotiation training is designed for professionals who negotiate regularly and want to improve their results, whether they are executives, procurement and sales professionals, HR specialists, project leaders or technical experts. We offer formats ranging from focused intensive programmes to multi-module development journeys, all tailored to your role, industry and level of experience.
How do inhouse trainings differ from open trainings?
Inhouse training is built around your organisation’s specific challenges, using your own negotiation cases to tailor the content, simulations and learning objectives. Open training programmes, by contrast, bring together participants from different organisations and industries, creating a confidential environment for fresh perspectives and honest feedback.
How do you ensure learning is transferred into practice?
Participants work on their own negotiation cases, take part in realistic simulations with structured feedback and, where appropriate, continue their development through sparring or peer learning. Our objective is not simply to transfer knowledge, but to create lasting behavioural change that makes a measurable difference in the next real negotiation.
We help you develop lasting negotiation capability and turn it into confident performance in real negotiations.
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