Dealing With Hard Bargainers

Applying the Mutual Gains Approach in Difficult Environments

Regardless of negotiation experience or the role played in an organization, most professionals have found themselves face-to-face with a hard bargainer. It’s likely that those interactions were uncomfortable and less productive than hoped. This doesn’t mean, however, that all is lost when a hard bargainer appears across the table.

This course is designed to help learners develop strategies when faced with a difficult negotiator. Dealing With Hard Bargainers draws from a much broader collection of courses in this series on negotiation, where the focus is learning how to employ the Mutual Gains Approach to Negotiation. The MGA, as it is known, is one of the world’s most recognized and respected approaches to negotiation, developed and taught for the last thirty five years at Harvard’s Law and Business Schools. While learners won’t have the opportunity to become an expert in the MGA during this one-week course, they will learn how to use some elements of it to deal more effectively with hard bargainers