
Courses & Events
CNI’s programs are designed for leading professionals across diverse industries who wish to improve their ability to negotiate to optimize their outcomes in deals and disputes.
Upcoming Events
Course Dates: May 1-2, 2025
Tuition: $2750
*CLE-approved
Course Description: Join us for this special virtual offering of the same curriculum you would experience in our 2-day in-person intensive. The Negotiation Intensive course was formerly offered through the Harvard Program on Negotiation, and is now offered by CNI and taught by the same faculty who delivered the course at Harvard Law School for many years.
Past Events
CNI’s courses and events are designed to address the core issues that you experience as you negotiate and communicate on behalf of your clients, organizations, or yourself. Here are some of our past events and roundtables.
Join us on August 4 at 12:15pm ET us as we hear from young people who have been involved in people-to-people peacebuilding to get their own thoughts and reactions to peacebuilding in the current contentious climate between Hamas and Israel.
Interested in a Tailored Training Program for your Organization?
CNI offers tailored training programs. Most custom workshops are for one or two days, although we offer workshops that are shorter or longer, depending on a client’s needs and goals. In addition, for long-term or repeat clients, we have developed a sequence of progressively advancing one-day courses, ranging from Negotiation Fundamentals to Multiparty Negotiation & Conflict Resolution, to Managing Challenging Conversations.
These programs are extremely dynamic, combining short lectures, interactive exercises, and structured debriefs. Using materials developed at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, these workshops draw upon the latest interdisciplinary research in negotiation, dispute resolution, decision-making, and group process.
Contact us for more information on how we can meet the particular needs of your organization!
This day-long workshop will introduce participants to the theory and practice of facilitation and is based on the facilitation course that Bob Bordone pioneered and taught at Harvard Law School.
This one-day course is designed to help participants understand how to prepare for and conduct some of their most challenging conversations, both in the workplace and outside of it. It will combine lecture, exercises, simulations and also give participants a chance to work on a real-life challenging conversation that they are facing in a low-risk environment.
This one-day course builds on Negotiation Fundamentals I and completion of Negotiation Fundamentals I is a pre-requisite for enrolling in this workshop. The Workshop will draw on research, theory, and practice to explore advanced topics in negotiation skills and strategy.
This one-day course will combine lecture, simulated negotiation exercises, and small group work to provide a foundation for improving participants’ ability to negotiate in the professional and the personal context. The course is also offered in a truncated format as a 2-hour webinar.
This webinar aims to deepen participants’ leadership capabilities by providing tools to develop both a mindset for effective empathy and the skills necessary to demonstrate empathy. We will challenge common assumptions about leadership by exploring vulnerability and authenticity as qualities that empower others and promote desired outcomes.
In this special 90-minute webinar, Bob Bordone, Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School and founder of Harvard Law School’s Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, will share the latest research on best practices for virtual negotiation and how to harness its advantages and avoid the pitfalls that can crop up in virtual negotiations with respect to limited creativity, increased deception, and missed social cues.
This 2-hour interactive webinar, combines theory and practice, to improve both the participants’ understanding of negotiation and their effectiveness as negotiators.
In this interactive two-hour session, participants will learn some of the reasons why active listening can be both challenging and exhausting, and why mastering it is essential for communicating empathy and being persuasive with others. In addition, through the use of real-life examples and live demonstration, participants will discover the component micro-skills of active listening.
The Negotiation Bootcamp for Women addresses the challenges and opportunities that women face when they negotiate by empowering them with the tools they need to succeed in both the preparation and execution of day-to-day professional and personal negotiations. This special 2 hour webinar introduces women to the fundamental steps required for preparing for and yielding a successful outcome in negotiation.
In this 90-minute webinar, Bob Bordone, Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School and Founder of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, will share best practices and strategies on how to neutralize difficult tactics and achieve positive outcomes even in situations where you may lack power or authority.