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Women, Negotiation and Power Workshop Series:
Dismantling Patriarchy One Negotiation at a Time
Please join me for the first ever mini-workshop series based on my book in progress Women, Negotiation and Power: Dismantling Patriarchy One Negotiation at a Time
Never before has it been so imperative for the health of our human community and planet that women find our voices and step into our leadership.
We are the key – both to climate change, to a world beyond armed conflict, and apparently even to constructive responses to pandemics.
We need gender balance in all systems.
For us, for our kids, for the more-than-human world.
Imagine a world where women all over the planet really have our sh*t together when it comes to negotiation.
Where “we got this” -- in our mode, not in man-mode.
Where we know how to be firm, fair, strong, confident, and free of past conditioning of who negotiates and who leads.
How we negotiate and resolve differences at home, at work and in the world goes right to the heart of creating gender balance and encompasses many things…
How we say no.
How we claim value.
How we communicate and resolve conflict.
How we work across culture and difference.
How we manage our team.
How we deal with anger.
How we recognize, harness and use our tremendous power.
How we create a global sisterhood.
How we get armed combatants to lay down their weapons.
How we change authoritarian regimes that are anti-women and make our ability to negotiate impossible.
How we build a more collaborative world.
I am so excited to offer my first ever
online workshop series digging into
Negotiation Skills for Women.
When you sign up, here’s what you will receive:
• 3 ONLINE ZOOM WORKSHOPS
1. Power, Patriarchy and Negotiation
All of us negotiate in a context. Our power in negotiation depends on our BATNA, or walk-away alternatives, and these are very much affected by patriarchy. Negotiation power also comes from our confidence, presence, knowledge and skill. So, what is power? What is patriarchy? What is negotiation? And why to any of these ideas matter to women.
2. Competition and Collaboration
To negotiate well, we need to have a clear model in our head of the strategy understand the strategy we are pursuing. This keeps us on track and shapes our choice of tactics. We also need to not shy away from conflict: without it, there would be no need to negotiate. But we need to understand what it is, what causes it and why negotiation is most often the ideal and most powerful way to resolve it.
3. Listening for Needs: The Core Skill
Most women are good listeners. This is both our great strength and a potential trap baked into us. Speaking and understanding the language of needs is hugely powerful and a different mode than what is often celebrated in mainstream culture. It is a mode which women can model for the world. In this session we will explore what are needs anyway and how do they relate to negotiation. What are emotions and how do these connect to needs and help you identify the problem you need to solve through negotiation.
Each of these workshop will be one hour on zoom and will include:
Presentation of
concepts
Interactive activities and video clips
Q & A
Discussion Time
You will also receive:
Entry into a Private Facebook community to watch the replays and connect with other women for further conversation and to connect
An email with the playback on each workshop
A Pre-Program Personal Assessment/Questionnaire
A workshop manual with the slides use and workbook and journal pages
Mark these dates to join live (or get the recording):
MAY 26
JUNE 2
JUNE 9
All sessions are on zoom 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EST
You may have seen our survey monkey needs assessment for these workshops. Here’s a sample of what you said (and thank you if you responded):
I think so many women want to rise and want to dismantle the systems that are currently at play but often feel powerless or don't feel they have the tools, myself included.
I want to improve my negotiation skills and end the patriarchy.
The world needs a different approach, a woman's brand of negotiation.
Fascinating and timely topic
I think it’s very important to understand that patriarchy is not a given, it’s not natural, it’s just the warped system we live in.
WHO IS THIS MINI-SERIES FOR:
For women* who:
want to build their negotiation and influencing skills (a life-long process)
want to use the best tools, techniques and strategies in negotiation
think systemically, and want to understand the link between the intimate and the global
want to increase the power of the feminine and gender equality in all systems
want to understand how traditional negotiation literature doesn’t really account for the problem of patriarchy
are interested in creating a more pleasurable world for ourselves and our kids
want to create a collaborative sisterhood across the global north and south, to learn from each other and to dismantle patriarchy one negotiation at a time
* women identified
WHY IS THIS NEEDED?
We see signs around us everywhere that are all too familiar:
a severe and frightening degradation of the planet
women remaining second (or third or fourth) class citizens globally
a rise in authoritarian and patriarchal leaders in charge of very large and important economies
the doomsday clock, the best measure of our proximity to nuclear war, now only micro seconds away from midnight
military spending completely out of control instead of spending our money addressing basic human needs (which creates peace!)
hidden bias from women and men alike to support women stepping into our fullest talent and leadership
our children facing a very uncertain future
women making ourselves small so we don’t overshadow men
women giving our power away in subtle and not so subtle ways. . .
Covid 19 putting more pressure on women and setting us back. . .
Negotiation skills are an art, a science, they require emotional maturity, are behavioral, and intellectually strategic. They bring to light both the micro and the macro of power and influence. They expose the nitty-gritty of the problem, and they show the way forward.
Negotiation is an interdisciplinary skill and knowledge set. It includes an understanding of human needs, taking charge of money and claiming value, use of presence and the body, effective communication, appreciation of cultural differences, managing difficult conversations with high emotion, and understanding the overall context in which all of us negotiate. For women, this has been thousands of years of patriarchy which weaken our negotiation alternatives.
Perfecting the range of skills connected with collaborative negotiation allows one to proceed with confidence, integrity, fairness and firmness especially in the face of bullies. Being comfortable with a competitive strategy if needed as a backup avoids the lose-win trap that women often get into. And finally, knowing when the power holders are refusing to negotiate and being strategic about other possible avenues for influence avoids wasted energy.
Thank you for joining me on this maiden voyage.
Your Investment:
Low price of $87 for the full package.
For this low price, we hope you will respond to our survey at the close of the program and, if you are inspired, give us some testimonials, and maybe even let us call you for your more detailed responses of what was most useful.