Negotiations 1: Building relationships

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.


Plan components
 
Lesson plan: download

Worksheets: download

By Jeremy Day

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Comments

Submitted by Patrick Gallery on Wed, 02/22/2023 - 07:14

I saw the course plan today for a course that I am about to start - But I think it'll be more helpful for users to be provided with some of the lesson plans with appropriate MP3 files to motivate the participants!
Greetings from Germany
Patrick gallery

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Wed, 02/22/2023 - 08:31

In reply to by Patrick Gallery

Hi Patrick

Are you referring to this lesson plan or a course you are taking yourself? If you are looking for lesson plans with audio files, you can do a search to find resources with audio content in our "Teaching Resources" section.

Hope that helps,

Cath

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