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The Art of Saying No: Save the Deal, Save the Relationship, and Still Say No

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How can you say “No” to customers – external or internal – who are pressing you to do something not in your organization’s interest? How can you say “No” to an overly demanding employee or a demanding boss without hurting a valuable relationship? How can you save the deal and the relationship and still say “No”?

Saying “No” the right way may be the single most valuable skill in negotiation—absolutely key to getting to “Yes”. As you will learn in this one-day course, the secret to saying “No” while protecting and advancing your core interests without compromising relationships lies in the art of a “Positive No.”

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Opening students up to negotiation

Posted by & filed under Negotiation Skills.

Working It Out is a 27-page handbook designed to introduce high school students to problem-solving, interest-based negotiation. Written by Getting to YES co-author Roger Fisher and Difficult Conversations co-author Douglas Stone, Working It Out presents core concepts from both books in a clear, simple format with plenty of age-appropriate examples from family, school, workplace and

Mediation Curriculum: Trends and Variations

Posted by & filed under Daily, Mediation, Pedagogy at the Program on Negotiation (Pedagogy @ PON).

NP@PON collected many types of curriculum materials from teachers and trainers who attended the 2009 Mediation Pedagogy Conference.  We received general materials about classes on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as well as highly specific and idiosyncratic units like Conflict Resolution through Literature: Romeo and Juliet and a negotiating training package for female managers from the

Bruce Patton

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Bruce Patton is a Distinguished Fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project (HNP), which he co-founded with Roger Fisher and William Ury in 1979 and administered as Deputy Director until 2009. With Fisher, Patton pioneered the teaching of negotiation at Harvard Law School, where he was Thaddeus R. Beal Lecturer on Law for fifteen years.

William Ury

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William L. Ury co-founded Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and is currently a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project. He is the author of The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No & Still Get to Yes (2007) and co-author (with Roger Fisher) of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, an eight-million-copy bestseller translated into over thirty languages.

Michael Wheeler

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Michael Wheeler holds the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School where he teaches both Complex Negotiation and The Moral Leader, as well as a variety of executive courses. In recent years he served as faculty chair of the first year MBA program and headed the required Negotiation course.

First, know thyself

Posted by & filed under Daily, Negotiation Skills.

Adapted from “Self-Analysis and Negotiation,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

“Separate the people from the problem,” advises the bestselling negotiation text “Getting to Yes”. That’s certainly good counsel when tempers flare and bargaining descends into ego battles, but it’s a mistake to ignore the psychological crosscurrents in negotiation. Unless they are addressed, a deal may

Seeing the Middle East in a New Way: Films from the Abraham Path with William Ury

Posted by & filed under Conflict Resolution, Daily, Dispute Resolution, Events, International Negotiation, PON Film Series.

presents:

Seeing the Middle East in a New Way: Films from the Abraham Path

with William Ury

Tuesday, December 8, 2009
7:00PM
Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall
Harvard Law School Campus
Join the Program on Negotiation for a film screening and discussion about The Abraham Path (Masar Ibrahim al Khalil), a route of cultural tourism which follows the footsteps of Abraham/Ibrahim through the

Boston Globe highlights mediation trainings for Iraqis

Posted by & filed under Daily, International Negotiation, News.

“The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is a renowned source of expertise in the field,” reported the Boston Globe today in its story, “Iraq latest crucible for Harvard mediation.” Reporting on the work done by conflict resolution professionals at Conflict Management Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the report notes that “The blood not spilled

The Manager as Negotiator

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The Manager as Negotiator (MMG746)
CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

FALL, SPRING, and SUMMER 2011/2012

Instructors:
Martha Belden
Joseph DeFazio
800-877-4723 X0163

Effective managers must be able to deal successfully with limitedresources, divergent interests of people, and organizational conflict.This course improves skills in negotiation and joint decision-making that students can apply immediately. Emphasis is on integrative bargaining and problem-solving. Students learn