Access Program Students in Rustavi Discuss Negotiation Skills and Strategies
On October 19, organized an enrichment session on Negotiation Skills and Strategies. The session was facilitated by Access Program English Teachers in Rustavi Ketevan Maisuradze and Thea Odisharia.
After a power-point presentation on the topic of Effective Negotiations, students were given a chance to practice their negotiation skills through the role-plays, where they had to act as hypothetical employers and employees. After each role play, the class discussed whether the negotiation styles used by role-play participants were avoiding, accommodating, collaborating, competing or compromising. They also had to guess whether the outcomes in each case were win-win, win-lose or lose-lose.
“I loved acting as a fictitious employer” admitted Mari Gugava, Access Program student from Rustavi when the session was over. “I have an impression that after having tried myself in the shoes of an employer I have better understanding of what the majority of them are looking for when hiring. I am sure I would do better at a job interview now that I know what to expect and would be able to negotiate better conditions for my employment”, she explained.
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 Dianne Zhambakhidze was once a shy and silent student, but that was before she enrolled in Access. It took her nearly a year to find her voice, but now she is one of the most helpful and friendly members of the group. Peers admire her diligence and hard work and always pay extra attention to what she has to say in class when she answers questions and gives advice on homework problems. > More Second rotation of the Access program in Adjara region of Georgia started with its own set of challenges. After consultations with PH, “Changes without Borders” the implementing partner of the Access program decided to cast the participatory net wider to the outer and more remote locations of Adjara. The level of education and achievement among youth, in those remote locations, is lower than that in the Batumi public schools. Although over 200 applications were received, general starting level of language competencies among the selected 25 Access students was dramatically low. The majority of students could hardly read in English > More  |
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