Negotiating with Agile Principles: Building Your Adaptive Negotiation Skills
Details
Our Agile & Scaled-Value Project Management Meetup hour in July 2026 is scheduled for Thursday, July 23rd, 2026.
Time: 10:00 am PT/12:00 pm CT/1:00 pm ET
Topic: "Negotiating with Agile Principles: Building Your Adaptive Negotiation Skills"
Our Guest Speaker: Dr Mike Clayton
Pls. Note: To protect privacy and ensure a smooth session flow, we request that attendees refrain from using AI-assistive recording or note-taking tools during the meetup session. Thank you.
An introduction to the meetup:
Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and all Product Managers need to be able to negotiate over schedules, budgets, resources, specifications, and all sorts of daily needs with their teams, users, stakeholders, and contractors. Mike Clayton, author of the bestselling series "How to Negotiate", will demonstrate how basic negotiation works and where adaptive principles can make you a better negotiator.
Takeaways:
- The Negotiation Mindset
- The Basic 5-step Negotiation Process
- How the 12 Agile Principles can make you a better negotiator
- How to Get Unstuck
Our Speaker:
Dr Mike Clayton has been managing projects and training project managers for 30+ years. He started his career at Deloitte Consulting in London. During his 12-year career at Deloitte, he served as a Senior Manager, leading high-profile client projects, and developed key Program Management methodologies. Since leaving Deloitte, Mike has trained thousands of managers and professionals in management, leadership, project management, and personal professional effectiveness. In 2016, he started building OnlinePMCourses to offer video-based and blended project management training globally. His Project Management YouTube channel has over 700 videos, 145,000 subscribers, and more than 11 million views. It covers all aspects of Project Management. Mike is a prolific writer, speaker, trainer, and author of 15 books- including five about Project Management. His latest book is "How to Negotiate", published by Kogan Page in May 2025.