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Anchor Price Like Pro

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Intermediate level

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2 hours to complete
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

2 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

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April 2026

Assessments

3 assignments¹

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Taught in English

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This course is part of the Deal Negotiation, Pricing Strategy & Stakeholder Mapping Specialization
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There are 2 modules in this course

Anchor Price Like Pro is an intermediate, hands-on course designed for professionals who negotiate pricing and want to protect margin without slowing deals.

In this course, you will learn a repeatable structure to anchor high, define a controlled bracket range, and manage concession cadence across multiple negotiation rounds. This approach helps you avoid large early concessions that encourage buyers to push for deeper discounts. Through guided coaching activities and a solo three-round negotiation simulation, you will practice delivering a clear opening anchor, responding to common buyer pressures—such as budget constraints, competitor comparisons, or walk-away threats—and using trade triggers to exchange non-price value (such as extended payment terms, commitment length, or scope adjustments) instead of offering free discounts. You will also review a negotiation transcript to identify where concessions occurred. By tagging concessions by type, size, trigger, and buyer signal, you will map how price or margin moved during the negotiation and identify the first avoidable concession—an opportunity where a value trade could have protected margin. To benefit fully from this course, learners should be comfortable discussing pricing and margins and participating in structured negotiation conversations. Basic familiarity with common sales or procurement terms such as discounts, payment terms, margin, and concessions will be helpful. By the end of the course, you will leave with a practical negotiation playbook, a short trade plan for future negotiations, and a graded assessment that validates both your negotiation execution and your ability to analyze concession patterns.

In this module, you’ll build a margin-protective opening strategy for price negotiations. You’ll learn how to set a credible anchor, frame a controlled bracket range, and pace concessions strategically so you can avoid large early discounts and guide the negotiation toward a close near your target margin.

What's included

2 videos1 reading1 assignment

2 videosTotal 7 minutes
  • Welcome and Course Introduction3 minutes
  • Anchor and Bracket for Price Negotiation4 minutes
1 readingTotal 6 minutes
  • Anchoring Bias in Negotiation6 minutes
1 assignmentTotal 15 minutes
  • Hands-On Learning: 3-Round Negotiation: Anchor and Bracket15 minutes

In this module, you will break down a negotiation transcript to spot where margin leaked through fast or unearned concessions. You will tag each concession, map margin movement, identify the first avoidable give, and choose the right non-price trade to protect margin—then prove mastery with a final graded assessment.

What's included

2 videos1 reading2 assignments

2 videosTotal 8 minutes
  • Tag Concessions and Plot Margin Movement from a Transcript6 minutes
  • Congratulations and Continuous Learning Journey2 minutes
1 readingTotal 6 minutes
  • Negotiation Concessions Explained6 minutes
2 assignmentsTotal 35 minutes
  • Hands-On Learning: Concession Map and Trade Plan 15 minutes
  • Graded Assignment : Anchoring, Bracketing, and Concession Cadence20 minutes

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