Negotiating in the Public Interest

A Great Negotiator Seminar^TM for Public Sector Managers

Public sector managers negotiate for a living. Negotiation is part of virtually every business dialogue, committee meeting, policy session and administrative process. It is how things get done.

Negotiation is a primary instrument of policy and administrative change, problem solving and dispute resolution. It is the engine of governance in democratic societies and the preferred means of resolving everything from budgetary and administrative issues to inter-governmental disputes and high profile public clashes. In the best of circumstances, public managers need to be good negotiators. In the real world of the new millennium, public managers need to be great negotiators!

Negotiating in the Public Interest: A Great Negotiator Seminar for Public Sector Managers is a collaborative learning experience for middle and senior public managers and other professionals in search of the great negotiator within themselves. The seminar brings public sector managers together in a unique learning community designed to

• support the exchange of negotiation ideas, innovations, and techniques
• stimulate creative problem solving, and
• promote self-appraisal by providing a supportive environment in which participants may reflect on and increase the effectiveness of their attitudes, methods, and behaviour as negotiators.

Negotiating in the Public Interest combines face-to-face sessions with online learning forums in an innovative format called the Great Negotiator Seminar¹. This unique approach:

• brings the real world into the classroom with a new emphasis on using participants' career experience as a learning tool
• enhances the learning experience through an exclusive online forum for web-mentoring, individual assistance and consulting
• enables participants to test new skills and approaches in their work environments before coming together again to reflect and build on what they have learned
• recognizes the value of learning together, with sufficient time and opportunity for participants to think about what is being learned and experienced.

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¹ Great Negotiator Seminar is a trademark of Accord Canada Dispute Resolution Group