Negotiating with Your Boss: Secure Your Mandate and Authority for External Talks
Negotiating with your boss might not be at the top of your to-do list before talks with external counterparts. But for business negotiations to proceed smoothly, it … Read This Post
Leading vs. Managing: What’s the Difference?
Are you a manager or a leader? Many people would say they are a bit of both. Indeed, the overlap between the two roles can be confusing. … Read Leading vs. Managing: What’s the Difference?
Persuasion Tactics in Negotiation: Playing Defense
Persuasion tactics can lead us to make decisions in negotiation that we later regret. Fortunately, there are strategies available that can help us avoid being taken for … Read This Post
Negotiation Skills: How to Become a Negotiation Master
Negotiation jujitsu means breaking the vicious cycle of escalation by refusing to react. Resistance should be channeled into activities such as “exploring interests, inventing options for mutual … Read This Post
Negotiations in the News: Lessons for Business Negotiators
What can business negotiators learn from current negotiations in the news? Quite a bit, according to the dozens of negotiation experts who contributed to the January 2019 … Read This Post
A Negotiation Preparation Checklist
Without a doubt, the biggest mistake that negotiators make—and one that many make routinely—is failing to thoroughly prepare. When you haven’t done the necessary analysis and research, … Read A Negotiation Preparation Checklist
Employee Mediation Techniques – Resolve Disputes and Manage Conflict with These Mediation Skills
If you manage people, disputes will show up at your door. Here are some mediation techniques from the world of alternative dispute resolution to help you resolve … Read This Post
An Example of the Anchoring Effect – What to Share in Negotiation
The prospect of sharing information with a negotiating counterpart can be scary – it can fix your counterpart into a position at the negotiation table you didn’t … Read This Post
Negotiating Change During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Many actions that could help alleviate the Covid-19 pandemic require us to change our behavior on a personal level, such as staying home from work and wearing … Read Negotiating Change During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Ripeness Theory in Dispute Resolution: Seizing the Day
The longer a dispute drags on, the less likely a collaborative solution often appears to be. But that view may be pessimistic: At a certain point, the … Read This Post
Daniel Kahneman Showed Negotiators a More Rational Path
The late psychologist Daniel Kahneman, with his research partner Amos Tversky, spurred a scientific revolution in economics by pinpointing predictable ways in which intuition impairs our judgment. … Read This Post
Bipartisan Agreement Proved Elusive in 2017 Immigration Negotiations
On September 5, 2017, President Donald Trump announced that he would begin phasing out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in six months. The Obama-era policy had … Read This Post