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Course Content
Dovetailing outcomes
How to ensure that an outcome is win / win rather than win / lose, or lose / win.
Influence versus manipulation
What is the difference between influencing and manipulating? This is very closely linked to well-formed outcomes and looks at using powerful skills with integrity.
Rapport
How to establish instant rapport that will facilitate the mutual search for collaborative results.
Understanding the perspectives of others
Stepping into the shoes of others to better understand their viewpoints and issues. Picking up clues to these through specific observation skills.
Dealing with contention
Considering a contentious issue from 3 different perspectives in order to get a multiple description and acquire more options in dealing with the situation and the person
Advanced questioning skills
"The person who asks the questions has the control": how to access facts or another's opinion. How to uncover the real meaning behind the words.
Influencing language
A model of language that indicates the motivation of others and how to use these patterns of language in order to motivate them
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