Negotiations and Influence in an Asian Context - India

A highly interactive one day training program that combines a world-renowned negotiation framework, practical strategies and deep cultural insights into how you can influence your Indian counterparts.

If you are conducting negotiations with Indian partners, suppliers or customers, an understanding of how economics, business strategy and cultural issues impact their negotiation style is critical. 

By combining general principles for Mutual Gains negotiation with business strategies to anticipate and manage cultural differences, you can build better relationships and reach better outcomes.

“Negotiations and Influence in Asian Contexts is one of the best training programs I have attended. The interactive program balances theory with ‘real world’ examples, complemented by the deep commercial experience and interest of the highly capable program facilitators. I would recommend this program to any individual who is, or intends to, conduct business in Asia” - General Manager Commercial and Transactions, RACV

Learn more about the program below:

  • What you will learn

    This program combines real-world practical strategies with the latest cutting edge theory to enable you to achieve optimal business outcomes at the negotiating table.

    • How to combine general principles for mutual gains negotiation with business strategies to anticipate and manage cultural differences in an Indian context.
    • A specialised skillset for negotiating and influencing decision-making in India.
    • Tools and frameworks that prepare you for influencing complex negotiations in an Indian context.
    • Practice applying cross-cultural negotiation skills in the context of true-to-life business challenges in India.
    • How to influence Indian counterparts and also maintain strong professional relationships.
    • How to apply practical negotiation strategies to your ongoing professional work with India.

  • The Mutual Gains Approach

  • Program Features

    Cultural awareness: An interactive briefing on what Indian counterparts think and say about Australian negotiations and how you can use this intelligence to your advantage. 

    Practical exercises: Interactive excercises about power, trust-building, fairness, time management and how you can overcome real-world challenges.

    Country brief: You will receive an in-depth country brief for India, which details how each stage of the Mutual Gains Approach can be adapted and applied to the India market. 

    Case scenarios: Case scenarios and role-plays provide an opportunity for you to implement key learnings from the program and receive direct feedback from negotiations experts and peers. 

    Action planning: You will identify individual lessons learned, strategies to adopt in the future during cross-cultural meetings and ways in which to strengthen organisational competencies in cross-cultural negotiations.

  • Facilitators


    Shiraz Engineer, Associate Director, Asialink Business
    Shiraz has over 15 years of industry and consulting experience assisting clients with their complex business problems, operational issues, process and performance improvement, and business transformations. He has worked extensively in Asia with a number of multinational (banking and technology) and private companies. Shiraz has also implemented a number of business transformation programs to enable business’ achieve their strategic agendas, including, pre-departure briefings to Australian companies prior to embarking on trade missions to India.

    Andrew Wei-Min Lee, Associate Director, Asialink Business
    Born in Australia and living in China for the past 15 years, Andrew is an expert in Australia-China commercial and cross-cultural engagement. His practice in China has covered a broad range of experiences including multi-million dollar commercial negotiations, cross-border arbitration and mediation, non-profit sector joint ventures and representations of persons facing the death penalty. 

    Andrew is a Fellow of Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and Stanford Law School’s Gould Center for Conflict Resolution. He has lead workshops on negotiation and business across Greater China. He has delivered programs across the United States, Singapore, Japan, Korea and the EU. With Asialink Business, he has delivered multiple programs to Australian public and private organisations. In 2011, he was appointed as a World Bank Mediator for Greater Asia.

  • Who should attend?

    This program is designed to provide invaluable skills and techniques to individuals or teams who negotiate with Indian counterparts.

    It is particularly beneficial for:

    • Executives

    • Business leaders

    • Project managers

    • Procurement/supply chain managers