Bonfire Training · Open Enrollment Workshop
What Great Negotiators Know That Most People Don’t
Negotiation · Conflict Navigation · Workplace Communication
Live, online, 2 hours. Practical skills you can use the same week.
Most of us negotiate every single day. With customers, with colleagues, with leadership, with vendors. We navigate conflict in team meetings, in client calls, in one-on-ones that somehow get harder every time.
And almost none of us were ever taught how to do it well.
Not the real version of it. Not the version where you walk out of a hard conversation with a stronger relationship and the outcome you needed. Where you stayed grounded when the other person got emotional. Where you knew exactly what to say — and when to stop talking.
“Great negotiators aren’t just better at tactics. They’ve learned to think differently — before, during, and after the conversation.”
That’s what this workshop is built to give you.
About the Workshop
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Duration
2 Hours
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Format
Live Online
Interactive, not a webinar |
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Registration
Via Eventbrite
Refunds up to 7 days before |
Mastering the Skills of Great Negotiators & Conflict Navigation is a focused, interactive session from Bonfire Training. It’s not a theory seminar. It’s a practice room — where you work through real scenarios, get real feedback, and walk away with a repeatable approach you can use immediately.
Why This Is Hard (And Why Training Helps)
Negotiation and conflict navigation are hard for the same reason: they require you to hold two things at once. What you need. And what the other person needs. Most approaches train people to optimize for one at the expense of the other — and that’s exactly where things break down.
Either you push too hard and damage the relationship. Or you accommodate too much and lose the outcome. The goal is the path between — and that path is learnable.
What You’ll Learn
Most people walk into a negotiation thinking about what they want. Great negotiators also know what the other side wants — and where the real flexibility lives. You’ll learn a preparation framework that changes how you enter any high-stakes conversation.
Conflict isn’t the problem. Unmanaged conflict is. You’ll learn five distinct approaches to conflict navigation and when to use each one — so you stop defaulting to the same strategy in every situation.
Defensive silence. Emotional escalation. Sudden stonewalling. Every negotiation hits friction. You’ll practice specific language moves that reduce resistance and re-open forward motion.
A deal that falls apart in two weeks isn’t a deal — it’s a delay. You’ll learn how to close agreements in a way that addresses what actually drove the conflict, so follow-through isn’t a fight.
Your own emotional state is a variable in every negotiation. You’ll practice techniques for staying steady and clear when the pressure rises — so you can keep the conversation productive even when the other person can’t.
“The session is interactive — not a lecture. Expect to practice. Expect to recognize your own conversations. Expect to leave with something you can use this week.”
This Is For You If…
| You lead people and find yourself managing the same conflicts over and over again | You work in customer service, healthcare, utilities, or any role where tone and relationship matter as much as outcome |
| You have a high-stakes negotiation coming up — with a client, a vendor, or your own leadership | You’ve been in situations where you knew the right outcome but couldn’t get there without things getting tense |
| You want a shared language and framework your whole team could use | You just want to be better at hard conversations — at work and everywhere else |
What to Expect from the Experience
Bonfire Training is known for one thing above everything else: training that employees actually enjoy. Not because it’s watered down — because it’s engaging. Our approach is intentionally interactive and experience-based, because that’s how learning sticks.
This session will move. You won’t sit through a deck. You’ll work through real scenarios — ideally ones you bring yourself — with guided practice, direct feedback, and language you can take back to the office the same day.
And yes, you’ll probably laugh. That’s by design.
What you’ll walk away with
Bring This to Your Team
If you’re reading this and thinking about someone specific — a team member, a department, your whole organization — you’re not alone. That’s one of the most common things we hear after these sessions.
When a whole team shares a common language for negotiation and conflict, the impact multiplies. Less friction. Stronger relationships with customers and with each other. Agreements that actually hold.
Bonfire Training delivers custom onsite and live remote programs designed around your organization’s real challenges — not a generic curriculum. If you want to explore what that looks like, we’d love to start a conversation.
Ready to change how you negotiate?
Two hours. Live online. Practical skills you can use the same week. Space is limited — grab your spot on Eventbrite.
2 Hours · Live Online · Interactive · Bonfire Training · Refunds up to 7 days before event