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Top 10 Negotiation Skills You Must Learn to Succeed

| | Negotiation Skills

Increasingly, business negotiators recognize that the most effective bargainers are skilled at both creating value and claiming value—that is, they both collaborate and compete. The following 10 … Read This Post

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What is Anchoring in Negotiation?

| | Negotiation Skills

What exactly is anchoring in negotiation, and how does it play out at the bargaining table? Consider this anchoring bias example from Harvard Business School and Harvard … Read What is Anchoring in Negotiation?

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How to Negotiate via Text Message

| | American Secretaries of State Project, Negotiation Skills

Do you negotiate via text message? If you’re a young person early in your career, there’s a good chance you could easily pull up message strings full … Read How to Negotiate via Text Message

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Fairness in Negotiation

| | Negotiation Skills

Imagine that you and your business partner agree to sell your company. You end up getting an offer that pleases you both, so now you face the … Read Fairness in Negotiation

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Negotiation Skills in Business Negotiation and Status Consciousness

| | Business Negotiations

Before and during your negotiation, think about who you’ve chosen as a reference group against which you measure yourself. Did you select the group purely to enhance your … Read This Post

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How to Maintain Your Power While Engaging in Conflict Resolution

| | Conflict Resolution

By following these steps, you can keep your edge while encouraging cooperative, rather than competitive, behavior in conflict management. … Read This Post

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Salary Negotiations: Reducing Gender and Racial Pay Gaps

| | Leadership Skills

Salary negotiations contribute to enduring gender and racial pay gaps. Research on the topic reveals how such gaps arise and suggests possible remedies that organizations can take. … Read This Post

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Ask Better Negotiation Questions

| | Negotiation Skills

Asking questions can reveal a wealth of valuable information in negotiation. Yet most negotiators do not ask enough questions or share enough information, instead choosing to devote … Read Ask Better Negotiation Questions

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How to Counter Offer Successfully With a Strong Rationale

| | Dealmaking

In negotiation, some justifications are more persuasive than others, research suggests. And learning how to counter offer in the right way can make significant differences in outcomes. … Read This Post

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Conflict Negotiation Strategies: When Do Employees Choose to Negotiate?

| | Dispute Resolution

How does the desire to negotiate stack up against other workplace decision-making procedures? Negotiation seems to be the preferred decision-making mechanism when employees are seeking individually tailored … Read This Post

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Managing Cultural Differences in Negotiation

| | International Negotiation

It’s important to educate yourself about your counterpart’s culture so that you don’t risk offending her or seeming unprepared. At the same time, it would be a … Read Managing Cultural Differences in Negotiation

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Conflict Management and Negotiation: Personality and Individual Differences That Matter

| | Conflict Resolution

Although Elfenbein and her colleagues did find that negotiators performed at a similar level from one negotiation to the next, to their surprise, these scores were only … Read This Post