BA Slash #14 event: Negotiating Skills for Life (Gary Homes)
Channel: BA Slash
Date: 20/08/2021

🧪  Topic:  Negotiating Skills for Life 🎭

Description
Many consider negotiating something that is only the domain of big deals, but the reality is that all of us negotiate several times a day in many aspects of our lives. Given It’s such a common event, it is important we understand how to maximise our chances of success. Gary will illustrate some techniques that are particularly relevant to business analysts.

You will take away:
✅ Perceptions and science behind negotiating
✅  3 precursors to successful negotiating
✅  Stages of the negotiating journey
✅  A 5-step Negotiating Process

Speaker bio
Building on a career that started in 1976, Gary has worked a variety of IT roles including developer, business analyst, project manager & programme manager. He also has experience of operating at the director-level in five companies, leading large teams. Gary is experienced in a very wide range of business, leadership, management and change management areas.

In addition to the traditional IT roles, Gary ran his own successful consulting & training business for over 17 years around the globe on a variety of topics including IT, management, leadership & interpersonal skills.

Today, he lives near Ringwood, Hampshire and is a Principal Consultant with Infosys Consulting.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garyhomes/

Event date/time: 18 Aug 2021 (Wed) 5:15pm BST
#BASlash #negotiation #BusinessAnalyst #BusinessAnalysis

About BA/
BA Slash (BA/) is a community for all, encouraging insights and techniques sharing on business analysis and other related disciplines, preparing you for the evolving needs of roles.

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Launching this group during the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be a wrong time. However, BA/ are determined to launch the first community event as it means even more to us to reach out to you during this critical time 👥 😃

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