Competitive Sales & Marketing:
The Art of Closing (Negotiation)

Skills Series

Understanding the nature of negotiation and how to effectively close a deal can be crucial to any organization's success. While mastering this skill set may seem challenging, our programme will provide participants with the necessary guidance and direction they need to excel in their deal-making efforts.

This comprehensive activity includes an array of activities, such as guided exercises, experience-sharing sessions and paired negotiation experiences, all of which are designed to teach attendees the latest techniques in negotiation strategies and social psychology. With knowledge on how to think ahead, adequately set expectations and confidently close the deal at hand, participants of this programme can benefit from a heightened rate of successful deals overall.

Negotiation

Overview

  • Understand negotiation strategies such as an acquisition audit

  • Acquire persuasion tactics to winning people over

  • Gain deeper insights on dealmaking in the digital era

Learning Objectives

  • Professionals in the Sales/ Marketing department

  • Managers of the Sales/ Marketing department who wish to widen their reach or re-position their marketing strategies

  • Anyone with interest in gaining deeper insight of negotiation, selling and marketing 

Target Audience

Duration

  • 16 Hours in Singapore spread over 2 weeknights & 1 Saturday

Course Sequence

  • Introduction to negotiation techniques

  • Understand the different sales methods between Asian and Western contexts

  • Learn how to build trust with strangers in 5 minutes

  • Digital sales strategies

*All schedules are subject to changes.

Next Intake

  • 6 - 8 July 2023

  • 5 - 7 October 2023

Fees

  • Self Sponsored: S$518.40
    SME Sponsored: S$198.40
    Non-SME Sponsored: S$518.40

  • Self Sponsored: S$198.40
    SME Sponsored: S$198.40
    Non-SME Sponsored: S$198.40

  • Self Sponsored: S$518.40
    SME Sponsored:
    S$198.40
    Non-SME Sponsored:
    S$518.40

  • Full Course Fee: S$1,728.00

  • Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

    This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Applications via MySkillsFuture.sg must be made within 60 days before course commencement.

Register

We are excited to hear your interest in our courses! Please provide the details of your course interests and preferred intake and we will be in touch soon. Thank you for considering our courses - we look forward to helping you become future ready!

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