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English for
Meetings
Participants collect specific phrases that help them to lead and
participate in English language meetings.
Speaking
Practice
Short
practice activities (“mini-meetings”) allow the participants to
practice the language they have been given.
Leading
Practice
Each
participant chooses a work-related or business topic, plans an
agenda for that topic, and facilitates a meeting using that
agenda.
This activity is captured as a video file and either copied to
the participant's notebook computer or burned onto a DVD to take
away after the course. |
INTEGRATIVE NEGOTIATING STRATEGIES
This
approach has been widely adopted in western business as a
basis for finding creative, mutually beneficial solutions.
It is often referred to as win-win negotiating.
Integrative negotiating is especially useful when it is
important to create and maintain an on-going business
relationship.
DISTRIBUTIVE
NEGOTIATING STRATEGIES
In contrast to the win-win approach, this is the
win-lose approach that many people identify with
traditional negotiating. It is also called competitive
negotiation.
Distributive negotiating is useful when fixed sums must
be divided and when long-term relationships are not
necessarily desired.
Tactics and counter-tactics
are learned and practiced.
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Balancing Advocacy and Inquiry
This
strategy maintains that a greater area of potential solutions opens up
when one becomes more open to feedback about one’s own ideas and at the
same time more
open to the ideas of others.
Utilizing
this method can diminish the western-style
competitive behavior that conflicts with the cultural styles of
many non-western nations.
Six Thinking
Hats
This
discussion strategy helps to deal with complex or controversial topics. It helps
to eliminate pointless
repetition and to prevent more powerful members from dominating
less powerful members.
It also
helps to preserve creative ideas that
otherwise are destroyed by negative thinking before they can be
fully developed. |
