Negotiation and Influencing Skills Training Course in Manchester

Our Negotiation and Influencing Skills training course is delivered as an open course in Manchester or online. We can also deliver the course in-house just for your business as an in-person course or a live virtual online course.

One Day Course | Delivered in Centrally in Manchester | Can Be Delivered In-House | CPD Accredited

Want to be able to negotiate better outcomes and influence others effectively?

Read on to find out how our negotiation and influencing skills course in Manchester will help you with skills, approaches and tactics to negotiate successfully and influence others to come around to your way of thinking.

Negotiation and Influencing Skills Course Manchester – The Details

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Course Highlights

Here’s some quick information about our negotiation and influencing skills course in Manchester:

  • 1-day training course delivered in-person
  • Central location in Manchester
  • Price includes refreshments, lunch and training materials
  • CPD Accredited – this course equates to 6.8 hours of CPD
  • Booking is easy. Just select a date and click Book Now!

Course Aim

Our one day Negotiation and Influencing Skills Training Course in Manchester will provide you with lots of tips and ideas to help you effectively negotiate outcomes and influence others to come around to your way of thinking.

You will find out how to prepare to negotiate and influence effectively, then use a simple structure to present your ideas in a compelling and engaging way.  Learn how to overcome resistance and barriers to your ideas.

This Negotiation and Influencing Skills Training Course will introduce you to the skills, behaviours and tactics necessary to achieve all of the above.

Course Objectives

By attending this Negotiation and Influencing Skills Training Course you will be able to:

  • Demonstrate an increased understanding and awareness of what negotiation and influencing is
  • Identify through group and individual activities the skills knowledge and understanding necessary to be an effective negotiator whilst developing your own negotiating skills
  • Understand the skills required to Influence effectively to bring people around to your way of thinking
  • Develop general strategies for successful negotiation and influencing
  • Produce win-win resolutions for all parties
  • Identify your own negotiation and influencing style and its potential strengths and weaknesses

Course Content

Here’s what we cover in our negotiation and influencing skills training course in Manchester

What is Negotiation and Influencing?
  • An introduction to what negotiation and influencing is and the main differences between them.
Preparing to Negotiate and Influence
  • What to do before you go into a negotiation
  • Determining your walk away point
  • Understanding the best approach for the people you will be negotiating with
  • Preparations required to Influence
Making Your Proposal
  • How to structure your proposal to ensure you sell the benefits
  • How to counter proposals from the other party
  • Body language and tone of voice when negotiating
  • How to bring people around to your way of thinking
Debating
  • Getting to an agreement that satisfies both parties
  • Being assertive during the process
Bargaining
  • What to consider when making concessions on your part to get an agreement
  • How to counteract arguments
  • How to get to a closing point
Closing
  • How to close the negotiation and ensure the relationship stays in tact
  • How to walk away
Being a Mediator
  • Using the learning from the session to deal with conflict and act as a mediator.

When you bring this course in-house, the content above can be tweaked and changed to meet the needs of your team.

Accreditation

Our Negotiation and Influencing Skills training course is accredited by the CPD Standards Office. This demonstrates our commitment to quality and industry best practices and you can be sure that the course you receive has been assessed to ensure it meets its objectives.

This course equates to 6.8 hours of CPD. After completing the course you will receive your CPD certificate and learning path document as record of your attendance.

Download the Course Brochure

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Who Should Attend our Negotiation and Influencing Skills Training Course?

This negotiation and influencing skills training course is for anyone who has to negotiate outcomes or persuade/influence others to buy into ideas.

If you want to:

  • Have a practical toolkit to use when negotiating and influencing
  • Know how to get yourself into the best position possible when negotiating
  • Get people to come around to your way of thinking
  • Be able to recognise tactics that other use when negotiating and how to counter them
  • Get the best deal possible for you and your business
  • Win more business
Then this negotiation and influencing skills course is for you.

The course is suitable for people of all levels and in all roles and industries.

In-Person Open Courses

A 1 day training course in one of our comfortable venues with one of our highly experienced negotiation and influencing skills trainers. You also get

  • Refreshments throughout the day and lunch
  • Course materials to take away
  • A course certificate
  • Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer

In-Person In-House

A 1 day training course with one of our highly experienced trainers at your location. You also get

  • Course materials for each delegate to take away
  • A course certificate
  • Reporting on delegate evaluation
  • Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer

Online Training Courses

A 1 day online live virtual training course with one of our highly experienced negotiation and influencing skills trainers. You also get:

  • A highly interactive online experience
  • Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer
  • A digital copy of the course materials from the course
  • A digital course certificate

Have Some Questions?

Here are some of the common questions we get asked about our negotiation and influencing skills training course in Manchester:

Our Negotiation and Influencing Skills courses are delivered by our friendly and highly experienced trainers. We live and breathe what we talk about in these sessions as we use most of the tools and techniques ourselves on a daily bases and bring this real-world experience into the session and the examples that we use.

The idea behind Negotiation is coming to an agreement or solution with another person or a group of people to come to a solution that is suitable for all parties involved.

Influencing differs in that it is about bringing people around to your way of thinking.  It can be used alongside Negotiation effectively to get to a win-win outcome.

Businesses today are always looking for ways to improve their bottom line and individuals looking to save money.  An extremely effective way of achieving this is having the ability to negotiate effectively and influence others.

Negotiation is fast becoming one of the most needed management skills of today’s businesses, and done effectively can save your business £1000’s through effective contract negotiations, negotiating with suppliers or negotiating with peers or colleagues.

While the 2 approaches lead to different outcomes, there is a lot of cross-over in the skillset. They also complement each other really well. Knowing how to use one approach can be hugely beneficial to the other.

Yes. We have lots of articles about negotiation and influencing in the negotiation section of our blog and the influencing section of our blog.

In-Person Open Course Location

Our Negotiation and Influencing Skills Training Course in Manchester is delivered from Manchester Conference Centre.

The venue has modern, comfortable meeting rooms with plenty of natural light and air conditioning.

Refreshments are available through the day and lunch will either be served in the on-site restaurant or in the room.

The venue is just a short walk from Manchester city centre and from both Piccadilly and Oxford Road stations. A multi-story public carpark is available next to the venue (chargeable).

We may substitute this venue but, if we do, it will be a venue in Manchester city centre.

All venues are provisional and confirmed 14 days before the course date. Where an alternative venue is used, it will be no further than 10-15 minutes walk from the venue above.

In-House Delivery

We can also deliver this Negotiation and Influencing Skills course just for your organisation. We can do this in-person at your office or a location of your choice or as a live virtual training course. We can deliver this via Zoom, Teams, Webex or any other platform that you are currently using and comfortable with.

Online Virtual Open Course

Our Online Negotiation and Influencing Skills course is an interactive live virtual course. The content remains the same but the delivery and approach has been re-imagined for the virtual environment. Our online training courses are delivered by Zoom.

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Ready to Book?

You can attend our Negotiation and Influencing Skills course in Manchester in the following ways. Click an option to see the full details.

Attend our negotiation and influencing skills training course in Manchester for an interactive in-person learning experience.

1 Delegate
£279.00 + VAT
2 Delegates
£265.05 + VAT
3 + Delegates
£237.15 + VAT

Price per delegate. Includes refreshments, lunch and course materials.

Group booking price only applicable when delegates book onto the same course date

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Manchester
17/12/2024
9.30am to 4.30pm
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Manchester
28/01/2025
9.30am to 4.30pm
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Manchester
11/03/2025
9.30am to 4.30pm
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Manchester
22/04/2025
9.30am to 4.30pm
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Manchester
03/06/2025
9.30am to 4.30pm
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Join our live online virtual Negotiation and Influencing Skills training course from work or home for an interactive online learning experience.

1 Delegate
£215.00 + VAT
2 Delegates
£204.25 + VAT
3 + Delegates
£182.75 + VAT

Price per delegate and includes multiple person discounts.

Group booking price only applicable when delegates book onto the same course date

Online
05/02/2025
9.30am to 4.00pm
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Online
19/03/2025
9.30am to 4.00pm
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Online
30/04/2025
9.30am to 4.00pm
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Online
11/06/2025
9.30am to 4.00pm
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Bring this Negotiation and Influencing Skills training course in-house and train your team together at the same time.

  • Delivered online or in person at your business premises
  • Course content can be tailored to your specific requirements

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