BESTUUR 2024 - 2025
“Like it or not you’re a negotiator, so you’d better be good at it…”
This core principle of LCMSA puzzled me two years ago and the more I think about it, the more I truly believe it. Negotiations take place all around us: in professional situations such as business meetings, settlement discussions, hostage negotiations but also in private situations like family discussions, deciding where to go on vacation with friends or where to eat with a significant other. We are negotiating daily in most of our interactions with others.
I have found the skills I learned and practised during the Negotiation Track of great help to improve the quality of those daily interactions, not only for myself but also for the people I interact with. I learned that negotiation is about more than walking away with the biggest part of the pie, it is foremost about listening to your conversational partner, establishing common ground, creating value, and making sure you create a deal both parties can see themselves honouring.
This debt I owe to LCMSA has motivated me to expand the reach of these teachings to other students so that they too can enjoy better and more successful interactions.
President - Jane Smolderen
Vice-President - Karlien Boyen
Negotiation is communication.
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And there are as many styles of negotiation as there are ways of communication. That's why LCM SA shies away form 'one size fits all' -solutions and instead commits itself to going above and beyond clichés by teaching sustainable decision-making tactics.
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By combining a solid theoretical, reflexive basis with practice-oriented simulations and extensive feedback sessions, eachh negotiator can develop and experiment freely within a controlled environment, while learning at the same time how to manage diverse and even unforeseen situations.
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Our lessons are meant to exceed their own content. That's whatt we strive for.
PR - Jerome Peeters
As a Business Engineering student, I looked at negotiations as a competition between the parties on who could let the other party lose the most. Being part of the negotiation track really changed my opinion on negotiating and my attitude towards people and problems.
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LCM SA taught me that being assertive is not synonymous to being disrespectful and not taking regard to otther people's problems. This was a very personal problem I was dealing with at the time, thinking that I am mean to people whenever i dare to say no.
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Instead, they tell you how to approach the art of 'listening to people' and help you realise that sticking to your own desires does not eliminate the other party's demands. Moreover, LCM SA shows you that different objectives can mend new, unforeseen and even better solutions to mutual problems.
This healthy approach gave me a new perspective on people and problems as a whole. These new ways really helped me improve as a person, as the concepts are also applicable in your daily encounters with people and most importantly, it gives you insight on how you are yourself as a person and as a problem-solver;
HR - Ellen Drooghmans
PR - Charles Bekaert
We negotiate every day. Not only in a professional environment, but also in our personal lives. Therefore, a profound knowledge of negotiation can be advantageous for everybody.
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The negotiation track offers an outstanding proggram that teaches the members how to negotiate and mediate in an ethical way. A combination of theoretical workshops and practical case sessions allows the members to exercise their skills in real-life situations with enough theoretical background.
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Because of its interfaculty character, LCM SA gives you the opportunity to meet new people and to experience how students from various faculties apporach a negotiation differently.
Events - Anouar Nifar
Negotiation Track - Bernd Calders
Events - Noor De Saedeleir
Finance - Victor De Saedeleer
Marketing - Sarah Verspaandonk
Business Game Track - Axel De Waele
