# Worth It: Negotiation for Creatives with Ted Leonhardt

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## Overview

Core negotiation skills are essential for creative professionals, but negotiating can be loaded with fear, anxiety, and uncertainty. Join Ted Leonhardt to uncover the negotiating tactics that allow you to build the power and respect that lead to financial and creative freedom.

Throughout this course, you will gain a deeper understanding of the common anxieties and vulnerabilities around negotiation and build the skills you need to keep those fears from holding you back. You will explore negotiation not as a bargaining session but as a collaboration in which you guide those you are negotiating with. You will also learn how to use time and context to define opportunities, create contracts instead of proposals, and align people with your vision. Because dealing with difficult personalities can be a challenging part of negotiation, you will build strategies for coping with and disarming difficult people. You will develop a negotiating style that respects the importance of kindness and good manners while also allowing you to know and assert what your unique offering is worth.

Whether you are just starting out as a freelancer or you are a longtime creative professional, this course will equip you to know your worth and confidently ask for the opportunities and compensation you deserve.

## Instructors

### Ted Leonhardt

Designers, actors, photographers, musicians, writers, creatives in all fields are negotiating with those who are more powerful than they are around the world everyday. Ted knows creatives and the problems they face asking for what they need, intimately.

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $49