Arbitration & Mediation

The Next Craving Balance Negotiation Workshop Starts July 19

By Victoria Pynchon

Lisa Gates of Craving Balance and I are doing it again!  An entire month of negotiation classes that will change your life. 

When Lisa and I planned our first month-long course (you can see the testimonials here) I told her that the women participating in it would make back the cost of the class in the first negotiation they conducted after the course ended.

I was wrong.

They made it back before the course was over  it back.  One participant said after the first weekly group teleconference,

I could drop out now and feel that I'd gotten more than what I paid for.

The response to our second course (now starting its third week) is even more powerful.  So powerful that an attorney I ran into at the recent WLALAPalooza event said,

I took your 90-minute free teleseminar and tripled my hourly rate in response.  I just did it today!  I'm so excited and so proud of myself!

So we've decided not to let the grass grow under our feet or yours.  We're offering the course again - with a  money-back guarantee - beginning on July 19.

Once women realize that they are already negotiating every day; begin to learn negotiation's "grammar"; and, take their new negotiating skill sets out into the world, they rock the planet!I

And here, for the comparison shoppers among you, is the cost of more traditional, less personally tailored courses, courses that do not provide the support women need to go out and do it!  

Tuition for Straus Institute 42-hour mediation (negotiation facilitation) course:  $2,195.00 per person

Two-day Karrass course $998 per person

Local mediator Jeff Krivis' Improvisational Negotiation Course at the Straus Institute $1,295 per person for two and one-half days of instruction ($518/day per person)

Local mediator Lee Jay Berman's one-day Negotiation Course: $345 per person.

Why Negotiating Women at Craving Balance?

The course Lisa and I have developed is an interactive, one-on-one and group negotiation experience in which we help women quickly move past their storied fear of bargaining by:

• recognizing the opportunities to negotiate better compensation for their services or products, whether they be solo entrepreneurs or professionals; managers or professionals in a corporate or legal setting; or, employees in any type of organization;
• recognizing the opportunities to negotiate better relationships with workmates, colleagues, competitors or opponents, as well as with family members;
• seizing these opportunities in a style best suited for the individual student;
• practicing negotiation (and dispute resolution) skills with coaching and follow-up; and,
• encouraging them to show up for themselves and their families by naming their true market value and claiming it in a manner that does not damage but improves relationships.

You will make up the cost of this course -- and more -- before you can say, "who me?  negotiate?"

And let me say this about the power of Lisa's coaching -- a side benefit of putting this course together with her - I become a smarter, wiser, more productive, funnier, better focused, more effective and happier person with her guidance than without it.  

And how many people can you say that about?

Sign up here today!

Full post as published by Settle It Now Negotiation Blog on June 19, 2010 (boomark / email).