Workshop "Negotiation Training for Women"

Join me for a full-day, skills-focused workshop designed to strengthen your negotiation confidence and impact in everyday professional life. Negotiation often determines outcomes more than merit alone — this workshop gives you practical tools, evidence-based insights and hands-on practice to negotiate clearly, calmly and effectively.

What you will gain

• Practical preparation elements for negotiations
• Insights into strategies, tactics, openings and exits
• Methods to foster cooperation and constructive responses from counterparts
• Tips for negotiating in male-dominated contexts

Workshop topics

• Typical negotiation pitfalls and how to avoid them
• Gender-sensitive aspects of communication
• Recognising social needs using the SCARF-model
• The five negotiation styles and when to use them
• Concise tips on negotiation rhetoric

What to expect

• Short evidence-based input including neurobiological and gender-communication findings
• Film examples and stories of real cases to highlight negotiation dynamics
• Practice in small groups

This workshop empowers you to be visible, composed and assertive — even in challenging or male-dominated settings. Participants leave with practical routines and renewed courage to shape their careers through effective negotiation. I welcome participants of all career stages. Please register to reserve your place.

From 2008 to 2023, Anja served as the managing director of the Hessen Film and Media Academy (hFMA), a network of thirteen Hessian universities. She graduated as an art teacher and worked for many years as a freelance journalist before entering the film festival industry. In the 1990s, Anja lived in mainland China before moving to Hong Kong in 2000, where she and her partner opened a photo stock agency that served Western magazines with Chinese documentary photos.

Anja is certified as an advanced negotiator by the renowned Schranner Institute in Zurich. In 2019, she published her book 'Denn Sie wissen, was Sie tun. Wir Frauen erfolgreich verhandeln.' – a book on negotiation with a strong focus on gender communication. She served five years as a lay judge at the District Court of Frankfurt. For the past decade, she has provided seminars on the communication skills needed for negotiation, presentations, and business networking. "Communication is a powerful instrument — as long as it is tuned."

https://www.henningsmeyer.de/