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Adapted from “Can You Break the Cycle of Bad Communication?” by Susan Hackley, Managing Director, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
“What happened?”
“How did a pleasant discussion turn sour?”
“Why did the deal unravel at the last minute?”
If you’ve ever come away from a negotiation asking questions like this, poor communication may be to blame,
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A set of techniques for successful communication in your negotiations. By asking open-ended questions, seeking clarification, driving for specificity, and then demonstrating a grasp of what the other party has said, you both learn and project empathy with your counterparts‘ point of view. Typical active-listening questions include, “If I understand you correctly, you need…. Why
The name given to the interest-based approach to negotiation set out in the best-known conflict resolution book, Getting to Yes, first published in 1981 by Roger Fisher and William Ury. The book advocates four fundamental principles of negotiation: 1) separate the people from the problem; 2) focus on interests, not positions; 3) invent options for
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