Participants will learn from a simulation only if they buy into the premise of the game. The following are the most common obstacles to a successful interactive negotiation training.
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Making the Most Out of Negotiation Training
A passive approach to learning rarely leads to future negotiation success. To maximize your training experience, follow these guidelines.
April 2013
Will Your Negotiations Get Sidetracked?
Coping with Negotiator Emotion, Both Fake and Fleeting
Dear Negotiation Coach: Dealing with an Uninformed Buyer
Why It’s So Hard to Learn
Why is learning difficult? Possibly because it will expose past mistakes and engender negative feelings yet this process is essential to improving your negotiating ability and in avoiding this problem again in the future.
March 2013
- Learn from the Deficit-reduction Talks – The United States didn’t go over the fiscal cliff, but few Americans liked the deal that was forged to avoid it. We look at what went wrong—and right—to show you how you can do better in your own negotiations.
- To Understand Other Negotiators, Consider the Context – Negotiators are often counseled to engage in perspective taking and empathetic understanding to achieve better results. Yet new research shows that the two very different skills have different payoffs in negotiation.
- Dear Negotiation Coach: Deal with a Crowded Table – Should you limit the number of people in the room during mediation of a high-stakes dispute? Our Negotiation Coach for February, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School professor Guhan Subramanian, suggests strength can be found in fewer numbers of participants.
Transferring Negotiation Knowledge
After attending intensive executive education courses, managers typically return to the office with a sense of excitement about applying their new knowledge – only to find 200 emails and 2 voicemail messages waiting for them. Amid the chaos, the lessons of the past few days are forgotten. The unmet challenge of executive education is the transfer of knowledge from the classroom to the real world.
Women and Negotiation: Their Place at the Table in the US and Abroad
Katrin Bennhold, staff writer for the International Herald Tribune, and Paula Gutlove, Professor of Negotiation and Conflict Management Practice at the Simmons College School of Management, will present a talk on Women and Negotiation.
Improving Negotiation Skills Training
How would you characterize your negotiating style: Are you collaborative, competitive, or compromising? If you have trouble answering that question, you’re probably not alone. That’s because skilled negotiators typically take on all these styles during a negotiation: they listen closely and collaborate to create value, they compete for the biggest slice of the pie, and they make compromises when necessary.
February 2013
Launch Successful Business Partnerships
From Negotiation to Auction: The Rise of Real-Time Bidding
When Impasse Looms, Bring Them Back from the Brink
January 2013
- From “You’re Fired!” to “Let’s Talk it Out”
- High Anxiety, Poor Decisions? How Bad Advice Can Hurt You
- Dear Negotiation Coach: Exercising Your Options









