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      Negotiations 1: Building relationships
      Submitted by Sally Trowbridge on 15 May, 2012 - 12:44

      When we think of negotiations, we tend to focus on the hard negotiating skills connected with bargaining. In fact, many professional negotiators will confirm that the most important skill is effective relationship building. If there is trust and understanding between the two parties, the negotiation will be much more successful, as will the long-term business relationship between them. In this lesson students start with a quiz which leads into a reading activity. Then they look at language in dialogues and finish with a role play.

      Topic: Negotiations and building relationships
       
      Level: Intermediate (B2) and above
       
      Aims:

      • To discuss the importance of building relationships in negotiations;
      • To teach some useful phrases for a range of relationship-building techniques;
      • To analyse an example of relationship-building in practice;
      • To provide practice and feedback of the situation of building a relationship in a negotiation.


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      By Jeremy Day

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      zahed46's picture
      zahed46
      Lesson Plan...negotiaton
      Submitted on 14 December, 2012 - 22:04
      Hi,there. All the lesson plans are useful enough for English teachers around the world,But I think it'll be more helpful for users to be provided some of the lesson plans with appropriate MP3 files to motivate the students more.I am an English teacher in Iran,Sanandaj.
      Paul Braddock's picture
      Paul Braddock
      TE Team
      lesson Plan... negotiations
      Submitted on 17 December, 2012 - 12:33
      Hi Sanandaj - thank you for the suggestion. We will definitely look at creating more audio / video content soon. Best wishes Paul