Consensus

Our team of experienced coaches can help your organization reach new levels by working one-on-one with your staff. We help leaders, high-potentials, and others who can positively impact the bottom line refine their skills and overcome specific challenges.

We customize each of our Negotiation & Influence workshops to meet your specific goals. This starts even before we enter the classroom. We perform due diligence to surface various facets that make your participants’ contexts uniquely challenging. We then tailor a syllabus to tackle those negotiation challenges and meet your learning objectives. This includes bespoke case-study exercises that reflect your organizational culture, the audience’s professional roles, perceived power imbalances, and other factors that help make the case realistic and on point.

Our Negotiation & Influence training programs are led by experienced professional negotiators. They are high energy, interactive, and fun. Rather than being overwrought with lecture, audience participation drives the learning.

Your participants will walk away with greater confidence and ability, having developed a skill set that is immediately actionable.

Our Having Difficult Conversations workshop is the perfect solution for anyone who struggles with or avoids difficult conversations.

Participants learn how to use a simple, yet effective communication framework to address all types of challenging dynamics. We show them how to transform their most intimidating situations into opportunities for building stronger relationships and improving outcomes.

Participants practice applying the model throughout a variety of exercises and case-studies, including customized simulations that recreate the contexts and challenges they face as a group, as well as their own real-life, personally-challenging situations.

Each program is customized to reflect the challenges, contexts, and corporate culture of your organization.

Our Executive Presence: Connecting with an Audience workshop shares the building blocks for creating that connection. Participants learn essential “do’s” and “don’ts”, and acquire specific skills to increase their communication effectiveness in meetings and formal presentations.

Throughout the hands-on session, participants practice applying the concepts during a variety of exercises and case-studies, including customized simulations that recreate the contexts and challenges they face as a group, as well as on individual bases.

The use of videotaping (optional), allows participants to gain even greater awareness of their personal presentation style, how they are perceived by others, and how they can get even better.

Do you have a high-stakes negotiation that you can’t afford to lose?

Are you worried about leaving unclaimed value on the table?

Wouldn’t you sleep better at night knowing that you have a seasoned negotiation expert on your side?

We have negotiated everything from hostage situations to public mergers and acquisitions, and we can help you get the most out of all of your negotiations.

We’ll begin by meeting with you to explore, fully understand, and appreciate your needs and priorities. Then we’ll perform due diligence, both independently and with some help from you, to ensure that every advantage is realized at the negotiation table. Finally, we’ll leverage our experience and expertise while employing engagement-specific strategies in order to produce the most favorable deal terms on your behalf.

Yet, while we function as your representative, sitting alongside you or instead of you at the negotiation table, throughout the process we take steps to preserve your authority to make the decisions about potential outcomes – even though we do the talking, you still remain in control!

You will enjoy a number of benefits by turning to Consensus to negotiate on your behalf. Among the most obvious is the increased likelihood of consummating a deal with favorable terms. But it is those that are less obvious – like the flexibility it affords you to consider and evaluate proposed agreements without being pressured by the other side – that often prove themselves to be even more invaluable.

Even though you might negotiate all of the time, you may never have engaged the task with a structured and rigorous approach. You might not even know where your strengths and weaknesses lie, and are unsure of how to optimize your negotiation results.

Rather than leaving this essential business activity to instinct and chance, we will work with you in advance of important negotiations to help ensure your success. We’ll help crystalize your objectives, develop strategies for achieving those goals, and plan for opposition from the other side. Then we’ll guide you through customized simulations, so that you enter your negotiation feeling confident and prepared, poised for success.

From beginning to end, we support you as a behind-the-scenes advisers throughout the process, helping you reach an agreement that meets all of your objectives.

Do you find yourself at loggerheads with another individual, department, or organization? Do you feel that you have exhausted all of your options, having tried to work things out, but are still no better off than you were before you tried? Are you at the point of either walking away or pursuing litigation?

Don’t lose hope – we can help!

Let us help you and your counterpart find commonality, reconcile your differences, and identify a road map for collaboration. We have done this at the national level with political leaders, as well as with businesses, family offices, and individuals grappling with a wide variety of conflicts. Whether your disagreement relates to a contract, misconduct, or any other type of grievance or dispute, Consensus can help you find a basis for resolving differences on terms that are acceptable and beneficial to all parties.

Our involvement helps you avoid or settle litigation, saving you time and money while creating more stable and peaceful relationships within your organization, partnerships, and family.

Examples of contexts that we can help you resolve include:

Business Disputes
Family Office & Wealth Holder Disputes
Leadership Board Disputes
Family Disputes
Inheritance & Probate Disputes