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Negotiation trainer and teacher, author and the editor of Negotiation Excellence: Successful Deal Making
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Speaker Dr. Michael Benoliel is the editor of Negotiation Excellence: Successful Deal Making; and author of The Upper Hand, Done Deal: Insights from Interviews with the World’s Best Negotiators, and several book chapters, articles, and teaching simulations.
Dr. Michael Benoliel received his doctorate degree from The George Washington University. He was trained in Negotiation and Leadership in the Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School, and in the Participant Centered Model at the Harvard Business School. In 2007, after teaching in the USA, he joined the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University (SMU) as an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Practice until July 2017.
He is currently a Visiting Professor at SMU and at the Indian School of Business (ISB), and delivers negotiation workshops for executives worldwide.
At SMU, Michael Benoliel received the Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA); the Mind Opener Award, MBA; the Classroom to Boardroom Award for linking academic theories to practice, MBA; the Appreciation in Years to Come Award for making a difference in students’ professional lives in 5 years’ time, MBA; the Outstanding Faculty Member Award, EMBA; the Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award, EMBA ; the Innovative Teacher Award, Singapore Management University; listed in the Dean’s Teaching Honor List for multiple years; and was nominated to the Best Associate Professor of Practices two years in a row.
Dr. Michael Benoliel provided negotiation services to: Hewlett-Packard (in Tokyo, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur); Mitsubishi; Fuji-Xerox; British Petroleum; Turkish Airlines; Accor; Anglo-American; United Overseas Bank (UOB); Advanced Micro Devices; Henkel AG; Pfizer Pharmaceutical (Philippines); Zuellig Pharma; Mega Lifesciences (Thailand); BATA; Prudential; Keppel; Jurong Port (Singapore); National Health Group; Mekong Capital (Vietnam); Sembcorp; Malaysia Oxygen; TNB (Electric company, Malaysia); National Museum of Singapore; Project Management Institute (New-York, Pittsburgh, Hong Kong, and Singapore); Indian Oil.
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A Mutually Beneficial Value Creation Approach©
Your professional success is largely dependent on your ability to influence others and reach efficient and satisfactory agreements. In the increasingly competitive business environment, professionals have to increase their performance and drive profitable ventures. Thus, to gain a competitive advantage, professionals have to master the skills of effective negotiation.
The Mutual Value Creation Approach© is designed to help you to develop effective negotiation skills. In this highly interactive workshop, the central focus is on becoming effective in one-on-one, multiparty, and team negotiation contexts. The participants will engage in several negotiation simulations developed by top business schools: Harvard Business School and Kellogg School of Management.
Key Benefits:
Presentation: Best practices of World-Class Master Negotiators
Workshop: Effective sales negotiation
Workshop: Deal making: Advanced negotiation strategies
Workshop: Developing negotiation skills
Can you share three tips for successful negotiation?
Based on my personal interviews with 40 world-class negotiators in the West and in Asia, master negotiators negotiate differently than most negotiators. Whether intuitively or consciously, they apply a unique combination of skills:
You have worked with a number of oil and energy companies, what types of benefit do you usually offer these companies through your talks?
Unlike marketing, research and development, and supply chain management, negotiation has not yet come to be recognized as a factor critical to the success of organizations. It remains a discrete, unstructured, sporadic, and in some cases, improvised event that often goes unrecorded or analyzed in the post-deal stage. In addition, most negotiators overestimate their negotiation capabilities. I call it the “competency overconfidence bias.”
Through my work with companies in the oil and gas, pharmaceutical, or service industries, I focus on building both individual level and organizational level competencies. Developing one level is not enough. The most successful negotiating companies like Nestle focus on both:
Individual negotiation competency (superb planning and preparation, strategies of value creation, creative deal design, etc) and building a a company-wide negotiation eco-system.
How can lessons of negotiation be used by regular people in everyday life?
Although each negotiation event is unique — has a different cast of negotiators, interests, capabilities, limitations, and aspirations — there are however, generic moves, principles and strategies of negotiation.
In every negotiation, whether it is a joint venture negotiation or buying and selling a car, the moves and challenges are the same: how to plan and prepare well, how to make offers and counteroffers, how to make effective concessions, how to design a value creating deals, etc. Therefore, highly effective negotiators negotiate well in their professions and in their personal lives.
How are risk and negotiation related?
Risks can not be avoided. They must be managed well. Unfortunately, inexperienced negotiators make two typical mistakes: First, they assume too much risk and not always realizing it fully. Second, they run away from risks by shifting it to the other side, often leading to no-deal (why should the other side assume your risk if you yourself refuse to assume it?).
Highly effective negotiators do not run away from risks nor transfer it fully to the other side. Instead, they design a risk sharing scheme by creating fair contingent contract. Based on my experience many do not know how to manage risky situations – probable future event — are thus end up with no deal. The more skilled the negotiators are the more they understand the value of contingent contracts as a risk management mechanism.
What types of audiences benefit most from your talks?
Since all people negotiate all the time in the professional lives and personal lives, everybody can benefit from knowing how to create value through effective negotiation. However, there are some that their roles require them to negotiate all the time – salespeople, procurement personnel, contracting officers, managers and executives.
Clearly, professional with superior negotiating capabilities create external value when they negotiate with professionals from other organization, and internal value when they negotiate with professionals from the same organization.
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