UC Davis Graduate School of Management
Strategic Negotiations
Challenge traditional notions of negotiation through a holistic approach to bargaining.
Start date
To be confirmed
Course duration
6 weeks
Excluding orientation
Language
English
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Effort
7–10 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Course overview
The amount of additional time every business in the U.S. will spend on advanced communication and negotiation skills by 2030.
Financial Times (Nov, 2019).
The number of managers who expect candidates to negotiate salary during hiring.
Robert Half (Feb, 2019).
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Negotiation is a fundamental skill, necessary in both professional and private contexts. Done strategically, negotiation can be key in achieving your objectives and building relationships. In this online short course, one of UC Davis’s most celebrated lecturers, negotiation expert Jim Olson, gives you the tools and confidence to lead powerful negotiations in both your personal and professional life. Moving away from traditional negotiation strategies, which tend to polarize parties into winners or losers, you’ll explore a new, collaborative method of negotiation that is not premised on an all-or-nothing result, but rather mutual gain. Interact with like-minded peers around the world in live negotiation experiences that’ll enable you to hone your confidence and bargaining skills. This course, from a highly-ranked school, will teach you how to navigate power, influence, leverage, culture, and ethics in difficult circumstances, at all levels in your career. Whether you’re seeking to drive influence in your job or your personal life, this course will help you become more strategic in your approach to negotiation.
Is this course for you?
Negotiation is not a born talent, but a skill to hone. Designed for professionals who want to develop their bargaining skills, this course teaches students to confidently differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate responses in difficult negotiation situations. It would also be beneficial to those who want to take the next step up the leadership ladder by demonstrating flexible and effective negotiating techniques. Students will walk away from the course empowered to develop a negotiation strategy that encourages a positive outcome for both parties, in different situations.
Course overview
Introduction
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Negotiation is a fundamental skill, necessary in both professional and private contexts. Done strategically, negotiation can be key in achieving your objectives and building relationships. In this online short course, one of UC Davis’s most celebrated lecturers, negotiation expert Jim Olson, gives you the tools and confidence to lead powerful negotiations in both your personal and professional life. Moving away from traditional negotiation strategies, which tend to polarize parties into winners or losers, you’ll explore a new, collaborative method of negotiation that is not premised on an all-or-nothing result, but rather mutual gain. Interact with like-minded peers around the world in live negotiation experiences that’ll enable you to hone your confidence and bargaining skills. This course, from a highly-ranked school, will teach you how to navigate power, influence, leverage, culture, and ethics in difficult circumstances, at all levels in your career. Whether you’re seeking to drive influence in your job or your personal life, this course will help you become more strategic in your approach to negotiation.
Is this course for you?
Negotiation is not a born talent, but a skill to hone. Designed for professionals who want to develop their bargaining skills, this course teaches students to confidently differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate responses in difficult negotiation situations. It would also be beneficial to those who want to take the next step up the leadership ladder by demonstrating flexible and effective negotiating techniques. Students will walk away from the course empowered to develop a negotiation strategy that encourages a positive outcome for both parties, in different situations.
What will set you apart
Practical preparation techniques that can help ensure optimal negotiation outcomes.
An integrative approach to negotiation that creates a win-win value for you and your negotiation partner.
The ability to determine the most appropriate practices and strategies to apply to any scenario.
A certificate of completion from UC Davis as formal validation of your negotiation capabilities.Course curriculum
Orientation module
Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1
Introduction to negotiation and distributive bargaining
Module 2
Deploying integrative bargaining and avoiding common mistakes
Module 3
Utilizing power and influence in negotiations
Module 4
Moves and turns: Negotiation in difficult situations
Module 5
Individual and cross-cultural differences in negotiations
Module 6
Crafting a negotiation strategy
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What past students
think
Francis Arenas
Project Manager, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
This course is a crash course in negotiation. For those, like me, who have a vague idea on how to negotiate properly and also vaguely know what to look for before going into a negotiation, this teaches you those things. I think this course was valuable in that aspect. It provided me with an introduction to the key elements of negotiations. I can start from here to learn more about negotiation.
Course Convener
Jim Olson
Lecturer, UC Davis Graduate School of Management
Founder and CEO, Westshore Management Group
About the certificate
Refine your negotiation strategies and earn an official certificate of completion from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.
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