SEAK Negotiating Skills
 

 

Conference
SEAK Negotiating Skills For Physicians

Schedule

Sea Crest Oceanfront Resort 
Falmouth, Massachusetts

Faculty

August 1-2, 2002

Registration Info

 

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Executive Summary

The average physician will negotiate for millions of dollars over the next twenty years (including salaries, professional services, real estate transactions, and purchases and sales of personal property) without the benefit of any training in negotiation skills. SEAK Negotiating Skills For Physicians was designed for physicians like yourselves to teach you the negotiation skills you need and give you an opportunity to practice these skills through a variety of challenging negotiation exercises.


Learning Objectives

At the completion of this seminar you will be able to:

  • Prepare and succeed when negotiating managed care and other insurance contracts

  • Negotiate physician compensation, employment contracts, benefits, and incentives like a pro

  • Win at Internet negotiations

  • Avoid and break deadlocks

  • Determine the amount of "flexibility" available

  • Negotiate without destroying ongoing relationships

  • Win in "win-win" situations

Faculty:

Steven Babitsky, Esq., is a former trial lawyer who has over 25 years of experience as a professional negotiator. Attorney Babitsky is the co-author of the best-selling book The Successful Physician Negotiator: How To Get What You Deserve and numerous other publications. He is a lively and entertaining trainer who has trained thousands of physicians over the past 22 years.

Registration Information: The $695 tuition includes a valuable seminar reference manual, continental breakfast and lunch each day with faculty, coffee breaks, and a dynamic learning experience.

 

Thursday, August 1, 2002

7:30-8:00 Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:15 Introduction: 

Why physicians don't negotiate; How much are you negotiating for? The $12,000 an hour negotiation.
8:15-9:30

Employment Contracts in Depth

Compensation, Benefits, Incentives, Key Clauses, Checklists, Sample Contracts, and Exercises

9:30-9:45

Competitive and Cooperative Negotiations

How to diagnose the difference and change one to the other

 
9:45-10:00

Where to Negotiate

Your office, their office, neutral site: Advantages and disadvantages

10:00-10:15 Break and Networking Opportunity
10:15-10:30

Authority

Importance, How to negotiate with the "yes" person

10:30-10:45

Asking Questions

How and when to ask key questions; leading and open-ended questions; sample questions to ask; Active listening

10:45  - 11:00 

Needs, Interests and Desires

The "X" factor

11:00-12:00

Negotiation of Managed Care and
Insurance Contracts In Depth

Checklists; Sample contracts; Key clauses; and Exercises

12:00-1:00 Lunch with Faculty (provided)
1:00-1:30

Pausing

Why, When, and How to Do It Strategically; When to Negotiate

 

1:30-2:00

Power and How to Develop It

Your "BATNA"; Legitimacy and precedents; Persistence

2:00  - 2:30 

Negotiation Exercise: Sole Source

2:30-2:45

Break and Networking Opportunity

2:45-3:15

Preparation: In Depth

How to utilize all resources available to gather, analyze, and plan. Examples

3:15-3:30

Aspiration Levels:

Setting the "right" goals and reaching them

3:30-3:45

Silence: How to utilize it

Silence as an offense tactic

3:45-4:30

Negotiation Exercise: Provider Agreement

How to utilize it

Friday, August 2, 2002

6:30-7:00 Continental Breakfast
7:00-7:30

Concessions:

How to get large "invaluable" concessions without giving up too much

 
7:30-7:45

Deadlock:

Using, avoiding and when it is not the worst outcome

7:45-8:00 Emotions: Making Them Work For You
8:00-8:15

Long-Term Relationships

How to build them and still get what you want and deserve

8:15-9:00

Negotiating Purchase/Sale of Medical Practice

Forms, checklists, agreements, pitfalls

9:00-9:15 Break and Networking Opportunity
9:15-9:45 Negotiating Reimbursement Rates
9:45-10:00

Closing the Deal: Strategies and Techniques

10:00-10:15 Internet Negotiations: How To Utilize the Internet to Succeed
10:15-10:40

Negotiating Auto Purchase/Real Estate Purchase Strategies, checklists and techniques

10:40-11:00

Negotiation Exercise

11:00-11:15 Team Negotiating: How to Build a Rock-Solid Team
11:15-12:00

Tactics:

The 25 Most Difficult Negotiating Tactics:
How and When to Recognize; Use and Defend Against Them

12:00-1:00 Lunch with Faculty (provided)

 

1:00-2:00

Negotiation for Retention of an Attorney:

Retaining Excellent Counsel Without Breaking the Bank

2:00-2:30

Negotiation Exercise

2:30-3:00

Negotiating Formal Written Contracts:

Checklists, Strategies and Techniques

3:00-3:30

Concluding Remarks &

Awards Ceremony

 

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