Sales Negotiation
Training
Drive Revenue. Protect Margins. Repeat.
Most sales teams rely on intuition during negotiations, often leading to premature concessions. There’s a better way. RED BEAR’s Situational Negotiation Skills™ training equips your team with repeatable tools, clear strategies, and guaranteed ROI to transform every customer negotiation.
THE IMPACT OF INNEFFECTIVE CUSTOMER NEGOTIATIONS
1% = 8.7% = 4%
1% change in pricing/discount drives an 8.7% change in gross margin. If you do the math, for most large publicly traded corporations, this can result in upwards of a 4% swing in stock price.
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Your Team Is Losing Deals—and Margin—Because of Negotiation Gaps
Sales leaders spend millions building pipelines—but too many deals stall, shrink, or collapse because reps fall into predictable Bear Traps:
Conceding Too Quickly
Crushes margins and sets bad precedents for future deals.
Avoiding Tension
Leads to one-sided deals and undervalued solutions just to “keep the customer happy.”
Skipping discovery (or not asking the right questions)
Misses the chance to shift the customer’s thinking or uncover new needs.
Letting procurement take control
Puts your team on defense and forces reactive discounting under pressure.
Negotiating from instinct instead of strategy
Leads to inconsistent outcomes and deal coaching chaos.
Relying on price instead of value
Reduces your solution to a commodity in the customer’s eyes.
And the business impact?
➤ Deal slippage
➤ Eroded ASP and ACV
➤ Weak negotiation confidence across the team
➤ Burned-out reps and over-involved leaders
RED BEAR turns negotiation into a strategic, coachable skill—helping reps protect margin, build customer trust, and win more high-value deals.
Recommended Reading
Get a roadmap to identify and eliminate negotiation patterns that hold your team back and replace them with proven, high-impact negotiation strategies.
What’s inside:
➤ The biggest obstacles standing between your team and better deals.
➤ Practical behaviors and approaches to counteract price pressure, leverage tension, and capture more value.
➤ Real client success stories
➤ How top firms reinforce these negotiation habits

Master Sales Negotiations
Welcome to our Situational Negotiation Skills™ (SNS) training—the playbook for how sales negotiation gets done. This program provides the skills, tools, and behaviors needed to craft profitable, value-based agreements with customers.
Get ready to…
- ➤ Understand the full power of effective negotiation in professional and personal contexts
- ➤ Develop the competencies required to become a successful negotiation professional
- ➤ Avoid costly concessions throughout the sales cycle
- ➤ Implement a systematic approach to plan and execute successful negotiations
SNS 1
Foundations of Strategic Sales Negotiation
This is where your team’s transformation begins.
In Situational Negotiation Skills™1, sales professionals learn how to navigate pressure, sell on value—not price—and negotiate effectively across the entire sales cycle.
Here’s what your team will walk away with:

A Proven System for Selling Value
Learn a repeatable, research-backed approach to shift the conversation away from price and toward what really matters—value.
The RED BEAR Negotiation Model
A flexible, full-spectrum framework for balancing competitive, collaborative, and creative strategies throughout every stage of a deal.
The Six RED BEAR Principles
Simple, powerful guidelines—based on Stanford research—that sharpen decision-making before, during, and after negotiations.
Tension Management as a Competitive Edge
Discover how to harness tension—not defuse it—to surface needs, unlock creativity, and reach stronger outcomes.
Hand-On Planning Tools
Practice using RED BEAR’s negotiation planner to prepare for high-stakes customer conversations and align your team internally.
SNS 2: 6-9 months later, you'll be ready for
Advanced Sales Negotiation
This second workshop, SNS2 builds on the foundation of SNS1, equipping sales teams with advanced tools to protect margin and lead value-driven conversations—especially when the pressure is on.
Here’s what your team will walk away with:

Tools to Anchor High and Frame Value
Master the use of framing and anchoring to set the terms of the deal—and keep the focus on value, not just price.
Skills to Navigate the Toughest Negotiations
Learn how to negotiate for access, for meetings, and for a sales process that sets you up to win—before you ever get to the final close.
A Toolkit for Deflecting Price Pressure
Stop premature pricing conversations in their tracks, uncover hidden sources of value, and hold your ground during end-of-deal concessions.
Advanced Questioning Techniques
Ask better questions. Go higher and wider in the account. Uncover real customer needs that strengthen your value story.
Real-World Application to Critical Deals
Leave with a clear, personalized action plan to apply every concept to 3–4 of your most high-stakes, in-progress opportunities.
SNS 3: 6-9 months later, you'll be ready for
Mastery in Sales Negotiation
SNS3 is the capstone of RED BEAR’s sales negotiation training—designed for professionals ready to move from strong to elite.
This immersive, high-impact session blends rigorous practice with advanced strategy. Here’s what your team will walk away with:

Advanced Simulation-Based Learning
Step into high-pressure simulations tailored to your toughest sales challenges—then analyze the outcome and refine your approach.
Cross-Cultural Negotiation Understanding
Learn how cultural dynamics shape negotiation behavior, and develop strategies to lead successful negotiations across borders and business norms. This is a great precursor to our cross-cultural negotiation training.
Peer-to-Peer Collaboration and Feedback
Share successes, dissect challenges, and level up as a team through guided discussions and live coaching.
Real-Time Application
Participants bring a live customer negotiation to the session, develop a strategic plan, and pressure-test it with instructor and peer input.
Real-World Application to Critical Deals
Learn what’s working from across the organization. Participants share execution insights, messaging wins, and behavior shifts that lead to better deals.
By the end of SNS3, your sales team won’t just know how to negotiate—they’ll know how to lead in the most complex, high-stakes, and global environments.
Time commitment: 2 days
Delivery: In-person or virtual
"I’ve taken several negotiation courses and RED BEAR has been the best one so far.
We invested in this training because I wanted to make sure my team is speaking a common language when we start a sales cycle….I’m constantly in the strategy sessions with my sales team and want to make sure we are taking advantage of all the RED BEAR principles we learned.
I can tell you there are two principles that have been very behavior changing in terms of what we needed to do on the sales side. The first one is running towards positive tension. Too often our sales reps want to avoid a conflict. Ever since SNS, we are a lot more comfortable with the positive tension you can use to put yourself in a strong position. The second major concept that helped us is setting high targets. We used to go into negotiations trying to project where we are going to end up and we set a target just higher than that. Now we go in and set very high targets with good anchor points so that our customers understand the value we are bringing to the table.”
Jeff Robinson – General Manager, Sales
People Really Love It Around Here
"The course was very eye-opening as a young person where this is mostly all new to me. This isn’t material taught in school or something I’ve acquired through life experience."
— Jackson, Lead Project Controller
"Wow! Shawn really challenged my thought process. I now see the endless opportunities I’ve missed in negotiation. I plan to be more strategic moving forward using the skills I’ve learned over the past two days."
— Josh Riley, Parts Buyer
"Very informative and interactive. I learned that I always thought of negotiation as a winner-loser game, but now I see it as collaboration. Both parties should win to build or maintain relationships."
— Sarah, Sales Rep
Retention Super Glue
We’ve all experienced “training amnesia,” where you forget what you learned and revert to your old ways as soon as you return to your routine.
We’re not about that here.
That’s why we created our robust coaching and reinforcement training, 100 minutes™ to Improved Negotiation Results
This isn’t your run-of-the-mill reinforcement program; it’s a 360 experience designed for participants and managers to ensure the learnings stick.
For Participants:
➤ Weekly emails with video content that showcases one key concept from the program.
➤ Guided questions for active learning and concept application.
For Managers:
➤ Weekly emails with video content that showcases one key concept from the program.
➤ Tailored smart coaching questions to use in 1:1s or team meetings to reinforce learnings.

Sales Leaders, Make Negotiation Skills Stick
Give your managers the tools to lead like coaches—and watch your deals improve. Salespeople learn best by doing, and they retain best when managers reinforce.
RED BEAR's Coaching & Reinforcement Workshop turns frontline sales leaders into catalysts for change. In just half a day, they'll gain practical tools to coach negotiation behaviors, support real-time deals, and turn strategy into sales performance.
What sales leaders walk away with:
- - A coaching model to drive sharper deal reviews and prep
- - Frameworks for high-impact 1:1s, pipeline huddles, and team meetings
- - Tools to reinforce RED BEAR principles in live opportunities
- - Actionable data for coaching conversations and performance tracking
The result? Better prep. Better positioning. Better outcomes.
Training That Meets You Where You Are
We deliver high-impact sessions for global procurement teams—virtually, in-person, or hybrid.
Every Training Includes:
➤ Instructor-led
➤ Discovery-based
➤ Hands-on exercises
➤ Role plays and simulations
That’s non-negotiable.

HOW OUR SALES NEGOTIATION TRAINING WORKS
A Proven Framework. A Practical System. Built for Real-World Deals.
We don’t teach tips and tricks. We train your team in a complete negotiation system—grounded in research, proven in global sales organizations, and customized to your unique challenges.
At the heart of our Situational Negotiation Skills™ program is a set of core principles, models, tools, and behaviors that bring consistency and confidence to every customer conversation.
The Methodology
Built on research from Stanford University and tested across every major industry, our approach combines behavioral psychology, strategic thinking, and real-world sales dynamics.
It’s not theory for theory’s sake. It’s a process your team can apply the very next day.
WHAT YOUR TEAM WILL MASTER

The Six RED BEAR Negotiation Principles
Simple, powerful concepts that guide decision-making before, during, and after every negotiation.

The RED BEAR Model
A step-by-step framework to approach any negotiation—like strategies for handling price pressure with confidence.

The Strategic Planning Tool
These are the difference-makers—mindsets and actions that shift negotiation outcomes and drive customer decisions.

The Five Core Behaviors of Successful Negotiators
These are the difference-makers—mindsets and actions that shift negotiation outcomes and supplier dynamics.
THE RESULT?
Procurement professionals who are prepared, principled, and powerful in every negotiation they lead.
Frequently Asked Questions
Still have questions about negotiation consulting? We've got answers.
RED BEAR’s sales negotiation training is scalable, practical, and built for immediate application. Key differences include:
- - Role-specific simulations based on your team’s real deals
- - Global delivery in 14 languages with local instructors
- - Coaching and reinforcement to ensure lasting results
- - Proven negotiation model tailored for sales teams
- - 10x Performance Guarantee — no invoice if participants don’t believe they’ll achieve at least 10x ROI
Our approach ensures sales teams close deals faster, protect margins, and build stronger customer relationships.
RED BEAR delivers sales negotiation training in two formats:
- - In-person workshops at your location, customized to your sales process and team dynamics
- - Virtual training that works with any tech stack, making it easy to train dispersed or remote teams
Both formats include role-specific simulations and coaching to ensure skills are applied in real deals.
Standard RED BEAR sales negotiation workshops run for two full days, giving participants time to practice and apply skills across multiple real-world deal scenarios. For shorter engagements, such as sales kickoffs or conferences, our BEAR Essentials format delivers core principles in a condensed half-day session.
We make sure the learning sticks with a post-training reinforcement plan that includes:
- - 100 Minutes to Improved Results: A 10-week program with weekly activities to keep skills sharp
- - Coaching & Reinforcement Workshop (CRW): Manager-led sessions to drive application in live deals
- - Independent ROI tracking: Third-party analysis to measure performance improvements and business impact
These follow-up programs ensure sales teams apply RED BEAR principles consistently to close more deals and protect margins long after the workshop ends.
No, RED BEAR sales negotiation training is designed for organizations, not individual enrollment. Our workshops typically serve 12–24 participants, and we can help you form a cohort of 12 or more within your company to bring the training in-house. For significant events, our BEAR Essentials format can train 20 to 500+ participants.
Why RED BEAR Works When Others Don’t
We’re not just another vendor. We’re your strategic partner.
RED BEAR is the only negotiation training firm that combines:
➤ Behavioral science that changes how your team thinks, not just what they say
➤ Procurement and sales domain expertise that maps directly to your team’s goals
➤ Enterprise-level delivery that scales across categories and regions
➤ Hard ROI guarantees that prove our impact
Results, Guaranteed
We back up our claims with real accountability—on both sides of the table.
Our Promise: 10x ROI or your money back
Your Proof: Independent ROI study conducted post-training
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