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Communicating and Negotiating Policy with Influence

Understand how your behaviour affects your ability to influence and negotiate with others
Build rapport, relationships and credibility with stakeholders to increase your influence and achieve your goals
Prepare for a successful negotiation that achieves a win-win outcome

Overview

Cross Civil Service

This course examines the principles of stakeholder engagement. It allows you to practise your influencing skills when handling a consultation. It also covers being effective in negotiations over preferred policy recommendations with others once you have chosen the correct options to develop a policy.

This course is aimed at anyone involved in consultations or negotiations and policy professionals who wish to progress to more complex challenges. It provides a practical and interactive approach to using influence when consulting with stakeholders and provides opportunities to practise negotiation skills within a workshop environment, as well as back in the workplace.

Please refer to the course flyer for a full description of the learning. Visit the open course schedule to see upcoming dates for all available learning.