This course is part of the Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution Specialization

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Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution SpecializationESSEC Business School

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This course gives you access to negotiation practical tools and best practices gathered by Professor Aurélien Colson & his team from assignments in more than seventy countries and in a wide set of sectors, be they services, industry, high tech, or public organizations.
In an interactive manner, this course will help you, among other topics: get prepared for any negotiation; avoid traps; know how to prompt value-creating partnerships; structure an effective negotiation sequence; bargain in an efficient and respectful manner; overcome deadlocks; and much more!

Indeed, negotiation is not simply about deciding who gets what now – it is first and foremost about creating productive, fair, and therefore long-term partnerships. This course guides you through innovative and proven approaches – “win-win…but not at any price”.

Together with its specialization, this course will lead you towards high impact and sustainable negotiations at all levels, whether finding solutions to people management issues, sealing a deal on a sales package, or entering into high-level strategic or political negotiations involving multi-party stakeholders.

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Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution Specialization

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Approx. 8 hours to complete

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Course 1 of 4 in the

Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution Specialization

Beginner Level

Approx. 8 hours to complete

English

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Instructor

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Aurélien Colson

Professor, ESSEC Business School - Director, IRENE Paris, Singapore & Brussels

Political Science

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6 Courses

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ESSEC Business School

For over a century, ESSEC has been developing a state-of-the-art educational program that gives the individual pride of place in its learning model, promoting the values of freedom, openness, innovation and responsibility. Preparing future managers to reconcile personal interests with collective responsibility, giving consideration to the common good in their decision-making, and weighing economic challenges against the social costs are some of the objectives ESSEC has set for itself. Its ultimate goal? To create a global world that has meaning for us all.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

1 hour to complete

Negotiation strategy

In this module you'll have an overview of negotiation strategy. You will be able to understand why negotiation is so important. It introduces the three dimensions of any negotiation: People, Problem, and Process. You will explore two fundamental tools of the negotiator: active listening, and effective speaking. Last, you will become acquainted with a list of counterproductive assumptions about negotiation.

1 hour to complete

6 videos (Total 35 min)

Week

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Negotiation preparation

2 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 34 min)

Week

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Value creation & Value claiming

This module gathers several learning goals. It will help you analyse the typical factors of failure or deadlock in negotiation, and develop proper responses. It will help you negotiate on behalf of others: getting the right instructions and respecting your negotiation mandate. You will also learn about techniques to create value through negotiation. Last but not least, this module will introduce you to the most typical bargaining techniques - and how to counter them!

2 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 38 min)

2 hours to complete

Peer assessment : Negotiation Preparation & Value Creation: Lesson Choices

2 hours to complete

Week

Week 4

1 hour to complete

Negotiation process

1 hour to complete

6 videos (Total 27 min)

6 videos

How to build the right negotiation sequence ?4m

Doing first things first for effective negotiation - Part 15m

Doing first things first for effective negotiation - Part 23m

Doing first things first for effective negotiation - Part 33m

Doing first things first for effective negotiation - Part 44m

Reaching the end : And how about the power balance ?4m

2 practice exercises

Practice Quiz - Final30m

Graded Quiz - MOOC final30m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM NEGOTIATION FUNDAMENTALS

by DOJul 15, 2020

A good course to learn the essentials of Negotiations. However, more real case studies or enactments/reading material would have helped. Overall great experience.

by VRAug 19, 2018

It gave an insight into how negotiation is everywhere!!! Getting to know the 10 preparation points of negotiation was really a eye opener. Thoroughly enjoy this course..

by TBJun 18, 2020

I liked the course. Basic level. The material was well organized and presented in short lessons. Easy to follow. Nice content and a really enjoyable/interesting homework.

by NSJul 4, 2021

As a beginner this course is easy to understand the fundamentals of negotiation. The course also makes it easier to understand the different components that makes up negotiation that are very subtle.

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About the Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution Specialization

This specialization is intended for managers - from business, public administration, international organizations or NGOs - who want to go beyond intuition and acquire proven tools to help them achieve greater success in negotiation.

You will learn the negotiation fundamental skills and tools thanks to the first Course. With the second course you we will enable you to develop better cross-cultural anticipation and flexibility when you face a negotiation - both key skills in an international environment. With the third course you will be able to choose and lead a mediation process. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of workplace and international conflict resolution. At the end of this specialization a capstone project will be the opportunity to apply your new knowledge and skills with practical cases.

Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution

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