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About the Course

We all negotiate on a daily basis. On a personal level, we negotiate with friends, family, landlords, car sellers and employers, among others. Negotiation is also the key to business success. No business can survive without profitable contracts. Within a company, negotiation skills can lead to your career advancement. I hope that you will join the hundreds of thousands of learners who have made “Successful Negotiation” one of the most popular and highly-rated MOOCs worldwide. In the course, you’ll learn about and practice the four steps to a successful negotiation: (1) Prepare: Plan Your Negotiation Strategy (2) Negotiate: Use Key Tactics for Success (3) Close: Create a Contract (4) Perform and Evaluate: The End Game To successfully complete this course and improve your ability to negotiate, you’ll need to do the following: (1) Watch the short videos (ranging from 5 to 20 minutes). The videos are interactive and they include questions to test your understanding of negotiation strategy and skills. You can speed up or slow down videos to match your preferred pace for listening. Depending on your schedule, you can watch the videos over a few weeks or you can binge watch them. A learner who binge-watched the course concluded that “It’s as good as Breaking Bad.” Another learner compared the course to “House of Cards.” Both shows contain interesting examples of complex negotiations! (2) Test your negotiation skills by completing the negotiation in Module 6. You can negotiate with a local friend or use Discussions to find a partner from another part of the world. Your negotiation partner will give you feedback on your negotiation skills. To assist you with your negotiations, I have developed several free negotiating planning tools that are related to the course. These tools and a free app are available at http://negotiationplanner.com/ . The course also includes an opportunity to use an interactive experience where you can test your negotiation skills before starting the live negotiation. (3) Take the final exam. To successfully complete the course, you must answer 80% of the questions correctly. The exam is a Mastery Exam, which means that you can take it as many times as you want until you master the material. Course Certificate You have the option of earning a Course Certificate. A Certificate provides formal recognition of your achievements in the course and includes the University of Michigan logo. Learn more about Certificates at: https://learner.coursera.help/hc/en-us/articles/209819053-Get-a-Course-Certificate This course is also available in Spanish and Portuguese. To join the fully translated Spanish version, visit this page: https://www.coursera.org/learn/negociacion/ To join the fully translated Portuguese version, visit this page: https://www.coursera.org/learn/negociacao Subtitles for the videos are available in English, Ukrainian, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish Created by: University of Michigan The course logo composite is shared with a Creative Commons CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) license, and was created using images provided courtesy of Flazingo Photos (http://bit.ly/1zOylRm) and K2 Space (https://www.flickr.com/photos/k2space/14257556613/in/set-72157644732478432)....

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This is one of the best and enlightening MOOC I have taken and I already start reaping the benefit. I encourage everyone who is serious about his/her career to consider this course!

Yannick Kounga

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I learned so much from this online course. I never knew how many different strategies there was to negotiating until now. This course is definitely worth the time and effort to learn these skills.

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By FERNANDO S J

Jun 18, 2020

It is a wonderful course, any professional and person in general should take it. The teacher's explanation and examples help a lot!

By Ehsan S

Jun 15, 2020

Great Course, Very Well Structured, and the way Prof. Siedel explains it makes it easy to understand the most complicated subjects.

By Preveena V

Jun 9, 2020

I enjoyed learning the course at my very own space. It was well explained and the notes well very detailed. Thank Mr George Siedel.

By Adarsh S

May 24, 2020

The course is very nice and useful for everyone. Negotiation is very basis skill and yet ignored by best of the best professionals.

By Geoffrey J

May 13, 2020

Easily understandable teaching style and vast experience allows the use of interesting anecdotes and examples.

Thoroughly enjoyable!

By Kevin B

Sep 3, 2017

Amazing course.

Learned very helpful and practical tools and skills that I can use immediately to improve in all of my negotiations.

By Maxim S

Oct 9, 2015

Interesting and valuable course! In depth look on logic, essence and analysis of negotiations and interests of negotiating parties.

By lit u

May 10, 2023

El profesor es exceptional a pesar de que yo soy de otro país sus ejemplos se dejan entender con facilidad.

Gracias Profesor GEORGE

By Joanne L

Jun 6, 2022

Some very useful tips and psychological tools that are practical in negotiation.

Interesting to revisit the basics of contract law.

By Nikhil S

Sep 7, 2020

Great to refresh and learn new skills at any age in life and feel empowered ! Thank you Dr. Siedel and Umich for the opportunity !

By Olutayo K O

Jun 11, 2020

A very informative and practical course. I learnt a lot. I am still going through the materials again because they are so helpful.

By Annestus M N

May 12, 2020

The course content was/is very rich and insightful. Prof. George was very engaging and explanations were both clear and practical.

By Musa A B

May 4, 2020

The course taught me that there are better ways to settle disputes in any endeavour of humanity outside the normal court procedure

By Si T H

Apr 25, 2020

Even I didn't know an inch about negotiation, this course opened my eyes wide how to make negotiation successfully with the tools.

By Jarosław W

Oct 28, 2015

Excellent course. Professor Siedel covers a lot of material, gives explicit, real-life examples.

One of the best courses out there.

By Noman M A

Sep 22, 2015

A must for everyone as it teaches you not just how to make deals for a business but how to negotiate better in every walk of life.

By Sabir B A

Aug 20, 2015

Excelent Course! Very useful, and student-friendy; it opened a lot of doors in my professional/personal life. Highly recommended.

By Tialie J

Aug 17, 2024

the class interactions are the most important and key components. reading comprehension and solving word problems are essential.

By Anton T

Nov 3, 2022

Awesome course! I've completed it within 2 weeks and it was really like watching "Breaking Bad" as professor mentioned before :)

By Rena L

Oct 9, 2021

Clear and very good with many examples reference. It is very theoratical bases, hope all negotiation skills can use in real life

By Nitzia F L M

Mar 19, 2021

Me encantó este curso, el profesor George es muy agradable y siempre da ejemplos de la vida real. Muy contenta con este curso :)

By David G

Dec 6, 2020

THanks for the course. It was my first online course and it has been easy and very professional.

I will try with another one ASAP!

By Raul L P

Nov 30, 2020

Great course and introduction to the world of negotiation. Very useful even if you are from outside the USA. Greetings from Spain

By Abul H M S A

May 31, 2020

the final mastery exam review might provide some explanation/hint/reference to help the student understand where they went wrong.

By swati s

May 31, 2020

Gave me an insight on how to be succesful negotiator. I am quite sure that this will help me in my career. Thank you Prof. Siedel