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For Negotiators

The science of winning agreement before the table.

Both sides already know the numbers. What moves is everything around them.

Instinct is what negotiators fall back on when the stakes rise. The 7 Principles, and the pre-suasive moment before any offer is made, give you a repeatable framework for aligning stakeholders, creating value and closing complex agreements.

Dr. Robert Cialdini, founder of the Cialdini Institute

Your Negotiation Edge

Decided before the table

A repeatable framework for the conversations that decide deals.

01

Value created, not just claimed

A deal both sides want to honour outperforms one side winning. Reciprocity and Commitment are how concessions become structure rather than losses.

02

The agreement before the negotiation

Most negotiations are decided by people who were never at the table. Unity and Social Proof describe the groundwork you lay in the weeks before it, not the hour of it.

03

The moment before you make the offer

What the other side is attending to when your number lands changes how the number reads. Pre-Suasion is the discipline of choosing that moment deliberately.

In the Room

Learned with peers, not from a lecture.

The POP Workshop is two days of hands-on work at round tables. Participants work through each principle together and practise it on situations from their own work.

A full room of participants at round tables during a Principles of Persuasion workshop
A Principles of Persuasion workshop, 2019
Two participants discussing a case at a POP workshop table
Participants working a case together
Dr. Robert Cialdini with a full workshop cohort holding signs about the principles
A POP cohort with Dr. Cialdini
Recommended Programs

The principles, then the moment before

Master the seven principles, then study the preparation that decides how your offer lands before you make it.

Certification

Certified Practitioner Program (CCP)

Master all 7 Principles and learn to identify which ones apply in each negotiation context. The foundation for influence-based deal-making.

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Reading

Pre-Suasion, the book

Dr. Cialdini’s account of strategic preparation: shaping what the other side is attending to before the conversation starts.

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Your Next Step

Win the deal before you reach the table.

Take the assessment to see which principles you already use under pressure — and which one you drop when the stakes rise.

Go Deeper

The principles, applied here.