- Illustrates the need for a clear negotiating strategy
- Identifies the need for fall-back positions
- Highlights the art of compromise and contingencies
- Stresses the need to ‘put yourself in other people’s shoes’
Ideally suited to:
Putting negotiation theory into practice and developing skills on the art of compromise to achieve this four-party agreement. Conflict and inflexibility will lead to a lose-lose situation!
Four not altogether friendly countries surround a mountainous area that contains possible sites for a telecommunications tower that could benefit them all. The countries all have different ideas about:
- style and height
- the precise location
- start date
- budget
Different laws and traditions conflict one with another. Can teams negotiate their way through this complex dilemma and reach a win/win outcome?
- Introduce the activity and explain how the activity will run.
- Divide participants into teams and issue the Briefs and the materials.
- Monitor the meetings between teams, taking notes on how teams work and negotiate.
- At the end, issue Agreement Forms for teams to complete.
- Lead a Debrief and relate lessons back to the workplace.
Full guidance supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.
- Trainer’s Notes
- Trainer's Introductory & Debrief PowerPoints
- Trainer's Introductory & Debrief Videos
- Team Briefs for each of the four countries
- Map
- Agreement Forms
- Set of Wooden Blocks
This activity is for face-to-face training. It is supplied as a hard copy pack and the digital files are supplied via the Northgate Trainerhub.
This Northgate Training activity comes with a five-year licence for repeat use with up to 24 participants at a time, for use by Trainers based at one licence-holding site.
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