A Highly Interactive Training Course On

Advanced Negotiation and Critical Partnership Management

How Do We Build, Sustain and Improve
the Most Valuable Organizational Relationships?

16-20 Dec 2024
Istanbul
$5,950
03-07 Feb 2025
London
$5,950
12-16 May 2025
Dubai
$5,950
20-24 Oct 2025
London
$5,950
15-19 Dec 2025
Istanbul
$5,950

Course Overview

The Advanced Negotiation and Critical Partnership Management training course provides delegates with a unique opportunity to delve into classic negotiation techniques while enhancing their leadership, teamwork, and relationship skills within the realm of critical partner management. In today's dynamic landscape, leaders must not only focus on improving themselves and understanding their organization's internal workings but also strategically leverage external capabilities.

However, valuable partners often present challenges—they may be hard to engage, costly, or irreplaceable. Through tailored exercises, delegates will hone their communication, negotiation, and partnership skills, gaining confidence in managing these crucial relationships. Whether interacting with critical suppliers, clients, sponsors, government entities, or community partners, this course equips delegates with practical tools to cultivate, maintain, and enhance organizational relationships effectively.

This COPEX training course offers:

  • A comprehensive understanding of critical partnership theory and its practical applications
  • A toolkit of actionable strategies for building and sustaining key relationships
  • Hands-on practice in negotiation, management, and communication techniques
  • Networking opportunities to connect with industry peers and share insights
  • Guidance in developing an actionable plan to foster and deliver valuable partnerships.

Training Objectives

By the end of this COPEX training course, participants will be able to:

  • Lead and steer negotiation teams and projects involving key relationships / suppliers, and often combining internal as well as external agreements
  • Confidently structure and manage negotiation meetings and proposals
  • Apply advanced communication skills and use personal influence for greater impact and success
  • Understand the importance of joint objectives and building a culture of trust
  • Appreciate the causes of challenge and conflict and use fresh thinking and creative ideas to build productive solutions when problems arise
  • Return to their organisation with fresh and practical improvement points

Training Methodology

This COPEX training course uses adult learning techniques to provide maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of information.

As well as printed material, the use of academic and commercial case studies, and video material, successful participants will ‘learn by doing’, through practical workshop scenario exercises and challenges.  They will be engaged in solo, paired and group work and in this professional and confidential space, encouraged to share ideas and learn from peers.

Furthermore, participants will draft their own Action Plans, to enable them to build positive and practical performance improvements points, to implement, when they return to their organizations.

Who should Attend?

This COPEX training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Directors leading and responsible for projects requiring valuable partners
  • Specialist Technical Executives, delivering daily with key partner/suppliers
  • Business Development Managers, exploring innovations and new business ideas
  • Project Managers, steering and reporting on projects and ensuring deliveries
  • Procurement Managers, managing critical supplier relationships

Training Outline

Day One: The Strategic Foundations: The Need For Partnerships
  • The Organizational Context: The Modern Challenge (VUCA), Leadership & Change
  • The Strategic Context: Planning, Innovation, Alliances, Collaboration
  • Understanding Partnership Management: From Suppliers to Critical Partner
  • Improving Relationship Management: Towards Joint Planning and Reporting
  • Preparing Your Partnership Map
Day Two: Communication Essentials: Personal and Corporate Conversation
  • Leadership Communication: Persuasion and Influence, Credibility and Trust.
  • Internal Communication: Applying Adaptive Leadership, Sponsors and Supporters.
  • External Communication: Relationship Steps & Knowledge Sharing
  • Self-Management: Stress, Building Resilience, Habits, Focus, Time-Management.
  • Focusing On Relationship Plan & Priorities
Day Three: Negotiation Essentials: Knowing Theory and Applied Practice
  • Classic Negotiation Theory and Fundamentals
  • Planning To Negotiate
  • Tools and Practical Points
  • Paired Negotiation Exercise (Practical Solo Challenge)
  • Knowing Your Negotiation Style and Tools.
Day Four: Workshop: Negotiation Partnership Scenario Exercise
  • Building, Leading and Working Within Negotiation Teams
  • Team Dynamics And Personalities
  • Planning To Negotiate and Communication
  • The Team Negotiation Exercise (Practical Team Challenge)
    • Understanding the brief and managing your team
    • Discovery Sessions and Chemistry Meetings
    • Building Proposals and Negotiation
    • Solution Building & Relationship Building
  • Using Feedback, Team Review and Personal Reflection
  • Preparing A Negotiation Personal Improvement Plan (PIP)
Day Five: Action Plan and Take Away
  • Partner Performance and Management: Building KPI’s, Value, And Measures.
  • Feedback and Reviews: Creating Joint Improvement Plans
  • Continued Learning and Professional Practice
  • Personal and Organizational Changes
  • Personal Action Plan: Partnership & Negotiation; Stop-Start-Keep

Certificates

  • COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

We can customize this
training course for you!

At Copex Training, we offer customizable courses designed to fit your specific needs. whether it's refining procurement practices or enhancing leadership and management skills, we tailor our programs to meet your unique goals and challenges. Let us create a training solution that delivers real results for your team.
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When will I receive the confirmation for my registration/s?

Upon successful registration, processing window will take not more than 24 hours from the time of registration. An email including the registration confirmation, invoice and joining instructions will be sent to the provided email address.

What is included in the training fee?

Published training course fees are inclusive of the training venue, training manual, writing materials, lunch and coffee breaks with refreshments over the entire duration of the training course.

What are the available payment methods?

The training course fee can be settled by either:

  • Bank transfer
  • Credit Card

How many hours per day, and what are the timings of your training courses?

Our training courses will run for 5 hours per day. The standard daily timing is from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm including the coffee/tea breaks and lunch.

Where do you usually hold your training courses?

Our training courses courses are being held at five-star hotels in prime and iconic destinations across the globe. Cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dubai, Geneva, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, London, Houston, New York, Paris, Vienna, Zurich, etc.

Do you provide hotel booking assistance to your delegates?

Once officially registered, we can assist by providing the corporate rates provided by the hotel where the training course will be conducted. Early confirmation will enable us to secure the room at reduced rates

In case of failure to attend, what is your cancellation policy?

Our cancellation policy varies depending on the circumstances presented. Generally, cancellations must be initiated in formal writing at least 14 days prior to the commencement date of the training course. Further, the option to shift an existing registration to another training course on a later date is possible. Otherwise, a full refund will be initiated.

What will I receive after the training course?

Delegates who will attend and successfully complete the training course will earn a COPEX Certificate of Completion. This certification is designed to validate the successful knowledge transfer, and that the desired learning objectives and outcomes to further advance your professional competency are achieved.