Negotiation Essentials
A LAMP+ Lab
Third Tuesday of the Month in 2026
11:00 AM EST
Asymmetric Negotiation for NGO Leaders
Most negotiation training assumes you're sitting across from an equal. You're usually not. You're the small organization across from the ministry, the major donor, the UN official — someone who holds the budget, the access, and the clock, and whom you cannot afford to lose after the "no."
That's asymmetric negotiation, and it runs on different skills. When you can't out-leverage the other side, your edge lives in what no one across the table controls: your composure when the stakes spike, your ability to read what's actually moving in the room, and the discipline of holding your ground while keeping the relationship — because in this arena, the relationship is the long game.
This training builds those skills as practice, not theory. We train the capacity underneath every script, and you'll be able to test the difference for yourself in this 90 minute introductory session—FREE.
Our Ask:
- Be there, on-time, ready to go
- We like the buddy-system for building real capacity—so bring a buddy.
- Register now to reserve your spot
What to DO When the Stakes are High
simple. powerful. easy to learn "Recipes"
Powerful Soft Skills
Build confidence quickly
THE LAMP+ Workshop
Learn the powerful fundamentals for thriving amid today's enormous challenges and increasing forces beyond your control.
Learn how to shift each conversation from "survive" to "thrive."
Immediately lower anxiety and nervousness in crucial and high-stakes conversations so you act with clarity and confidence toward your goals.
Building the Soft Skills That Give You the Edge in Negotiations
Good negotiation is about more than understanding the numbers. It's about understanding what drives people. Our skills training focus on the soft skills essential to breakthrough negotiating. Focusing on simple "skill mash-ups" we get you started experiencing the difference your new actions make.
Otherwise complex skills of active listening, empathy evolution, and fostering emotional fortitude begin to reveal their capacity for surprisingly satisfying outcomes!
Build confidence
Handle even crucial and difficult conversations—personal and professional—better than ever before
High-Stakes Calm
Experience the calming effect of this approach that also allows you to uncover otherwise hidden information from your counterpart.
Strategies That Work Out of the Box
Learn strategies that work even when done imperfectly! Of course, honing your skills and deepening your understanding will do more. Just getting started is what makes the difference!
The Human Element
Experiential Learning
Whether it is curriculum design, core business processes, or customer service, people's experience is is fundamental to success.
Building soft skills into business is often the hardest work to do.
Digitizing your work may be challenging, but the often over-looked development of human capacities—at the core of business and social success—is mostly undervalued and overlooked.
Baking this element into your business from its core is leveraged through experience-oriented products. Leverage the experiential approach to put the chances of success on your side.
GDE focuses on the Human Element in all aspects of the business. And building in meaningful experience is essential at every level and stage. so that your products and services, course-work an more, uplevels your success rates from the teens to the eighties.
Turn your plans into routine success!
Draws on the TQ™ framework
Holistic approach
Includes key elements almost all other training programs omit
