How to negotiate well with the people and organizations you depend on

Build your team's skills

What do you do on big multi-party projects if you know that your key partners have different interests from your own? This training will support grow your skills and confidence to ensure that different perspectives, agendas and approaches can be a benefit to the project rather than a hindrance. This training focuses on negotiation skills for meetings with individual partners such as government, funders, and other key contributors.

What you will learn

  • Understand everyone's position

    Identify your key partners concerns and interests

  • Frame your message

    Fit the concerns of your partners while still achieving your most important goals

  • Put it in Play

    As a team, you will participate in a roleplay based on a real situation or relationship with a partner

Join Brook for Negotiating with Key Partners

Brook Thorndycraft

Brook facilitates and nurtures leaders, changemakers, and teams as they navigate the essential questions of organizational life. With over 15 years of experience and a background in mediation (Q.Med), adult education (MA), and Somatic Experiencing (SEP), Brook bridges the gap between systemic change and the human nervous system. Through coaching, training, and custom change processes, she helps organizations transform power dynamics, psychological safety, and conflict into sources of possibility.

Reach out for more information

This training works best as two half-day sessions so that participants have time to prepare for the negotiation roleplay.