Watershed Associatiates Best Negotiating Practices®
Advancing Women Negotiators
Retain and develop your organization’s professional women by strengthening them as negotiators.
Despite being a robust constituency in the workforce at all levels, women often find themselves in male dominated professions, meetings or management levels where societal pre-conceptions or mores can hamper their success. Without the confidence and skill to overcome these obstacles, women negotiators can be at a disadvantage in these situations.
Watershed supports women professionals’ desire to change this dynamic by strengthening negotiating skills in an environment that
explores their on-the-job experience using negotiation strategies
invites input and feedback from female peers; and
is supported by coaching from female negotiation experts.
Global 1000 companies, law firms, Government and DoD, and professional women’s groups choose Watershed to provide negotiation training that focuses on the real-world challenges uniquely faced by women leaders and individual performers, with practical strategies to increase negotiation confidence and competency.
Women make up half of the world’s population, but don’t share in half the world’s leadership positions. Negotiation sessions targeted to women will drive change in this environment.
Sample Topics for Women Negotiators
From foundation to advanced skills and strategies, participants explore negotiation scenarios of increasing intensity and complexity, with expert coaching and peer feedback, underscored by a female perspective.
Why Many Women Negotiate Differently than Men
Women Don’t Ask, but can and Should
Shift Your View of Negotiation from Conflict to Conversation
Rapport Building is a Typical Female Advantage
Bargaining is Not a Battle
Relationships Matter
Why Women’s Groups Choose Watershed's Programs to Improve Their Negotiation Skills
- Women want to talk with other women about their unique challenges as Women Who Negotiate
- High impact and high energy presentations that promote learning from shared experiences among women
- Participant engagement that builds confidence and reinforces new behaviors
- Tailored to your industry, specific negotiation challenges and group’s skill level
- Expert facilitators who teach in male dominated professions bring a real world understanding of the unique dilemmas women face as negotiators
- Designed and led by women with experience, practical advice and humor
Empower Your Women Negotiators with Impactful Negotiation Skills
Women’s Professional Groups Conference Sessions
Integration with Corporate Diversity Programs
Small group coaching for Women Negotiators
The Power of Negotiation Sessions Targeted to Women
Women: Develop confidence. Sharpen skills. Negotiate Now.
Having trained and consulted with 1000s of female and male professionals in negotiation skills, Watershed encounters women who are powerful negotiators, but who too often don’t draw on their innate negotiation skill set to achieve success. We bring an understanding of this reluctance and a strong belief in the value of women negotiating on their own behalf and for the benefit of their organizations.
Women are powerful negotiators, but too often don’t draw on their negotiation skill set to achieve success. Why is that? Going beyond the research provided by academics blaming gender-specific assumptions, cultural impact, demonstrations of lower confidence, and the real-life backlash of male counterparts, bosses, and colleagues, Watershed addresses the reality of what women uniquely face and how women can negotiate to get what they want.
Women make up half of the world’s population, but don’t share in half the world’s leadership positions. Negotiation sessions targeted to women will drive change in this environment.