mediation techniques

Employee Mediation Techniques – Resolve Disputes and Manage Conflict with These Mediation Skills

| | Mediation

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

anchoring effect

An Example of the Anchoring Effect – What to Share in Negotiation

| | Negotiation Skills

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

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Negotiating Change During the Covid-19 Pandemic

| | Crisis Negotiations

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

conflict resolution

Ripeness Theory in Dispute Resolution: Seizing the Day

| | Conflict Resolution

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

| | Negotiation Skills

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

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Bipartisan Agreement Proved Elusive in 2017 Immigration Negotiations

| | Dealmaking

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

negotiation examples in the workplace

Four Negotiation Examples in the Workplace That Sought Greater Equity and Diversity

| | American Secretaries of State Project, Negotiation Skills

There are a number of infamous negotiation examples in the workplace, but one most notable instance occurred in March 2018, when more than 700 Canadian doctors, residents, … Read This Post

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A Token Concession: In Negotiation, the Gift that Keeps on Giving

| | Negotiation Skills

When making concessions in negotiation, we tend to assume that a concession must really cost us, financially or otherwise, for the other side to take notice and … Read This Post

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The Good Cop, Bad Cop Negotiation Strategy

| | BATNA

The good cop, bad cop negotiation strategy is common in sales negotiations and other competitive contexts. Learn to identify and defuse this persuasion ploy when it’s tried … Read The Good Cop, Bad Cop Negotiation Strategy

Cognitive Biases

Cognitive Biases in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution – Common Negotiation Mistakes

| | Conflict Resolution

Negotiators planning to engage in conflict resolution in a personal or business disputes should be aware of cognitive biases in negotiation, particularly when your dispute is being … Read This Post

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Dealing with Difficult People? Negotiation Lessons from Ronald Reagan

| | Conflict Resolution

In recent months, U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders have struggled to find a winning strategy to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to back away … Read This Post

Learning from Ethical Leadership Failures at Boeing

| | Leadership Skills

Ethical leadership has proven to be elusive at Boeing, but why? Recent analyses have uncovered common psychological biases that can keep leaders—and all of us—from meeting our … Read This Post