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Getting Past No

Hesitation to engage with naysayers or confrontational stakeholders can complicate situations and make reaching goals difficult. Learn how to navigate through conflicts assertively.

Business Impact

Ideally Suitable For

  • First-time Managers
  • Individual Contributors
  • Anyone in a role requiring negotiating and handling conflicts/disagreements

The delivery will be customised as per the needs of the learning cohort.

What you will learn in Getting Past No

How is this activity available?

Instructor-led Training (ILT)

Instructor-led Training (ILT)

Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT)

Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT)

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This course includes:
  • modules 3 modules
  • fun challenges Duration: 90-120 minutes
  • Duration of 3 hours 1 case study
  • 25+ fun challengesIdeal for: 20-30 participants at a time
  • Participant handbook
  • Pre-work assignment (optional)
  • Post-work assignment (optional)
  • Pocket insights (optional)
  • Manager Insights (optional)

The program helps you

  • Recognize conflicts, negativity and nay-saying
  • Avoid getting drawn into the negativity
  • Address workplace conflicts on objective parameters
  • Overcome self-confusion while facing confrontation
  • Avoid being judgemental about people with negativity
  • Our outlook to conflict
  • When is conflict good
  • Signs that the conflict is bad
  • The Harvard Negotiation Project
  • 5 step breakthrough model
  • Putting to practice
  • Understanding personal preferences
  • Activity: Win as much as you can
  • Putting to practice

Frequently asked questions

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For each workshop, we can help you with three different teasers you can customize and share periodically with participants to build excitement and get traction.

We are glad you asked that question. Every learning intervention starts with "Why?" and "What is the difference you want to see at the workplace because your learner attended this session?" Once we are clear, our learning designers create a thoughtfully curated learning journey that could be a mix of different methodologies chosen to suit your learning environment. Besides this, to aid learning, we can (optionally) buttress it through the following:

  • A pre-learning assignment for learners to know where they stand before the journey
  • A participant handbook aids the learner in returning to what was covered during the session and reviewing it again. It helps in learning reinforcement.
  • A post-learning assignment helps learners know where they stand after the journey. Assessing the gap in learning helps learners in bridging it
  • Pocket insights—a ready reckoner with the key concepts that can either be carried along or be pinned up as a ready reminder.
  • Manager Essentials—tips (for the managers of the learners) to recognize behavioral changes and create an environment that encourages the learners to put what they have learned to practice.
  • Post-learning application of learning at the workplace through a specific project.
  • We try to capture the impact of every learning intervention through an impact report that is then shared with clients.

You can download a program overview from each of the topic pages. While this will give you an overall workshop structure, our learning designers will still need to talk with you to customize the workshop to your context.

Every single workshop (except the asynchronous self-paced modules) is customized to the precise customer need and brief. Our client advisory team will work closely with you to understand your context and pass it on to the execution team.

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