productive negotiations Contract Negotiation Skills: Setting Yourself Up for Success

Contract Negotiation Skills: Setting Yourself Up for Success

| | Dealmaking

Business negotiators tend to focus on getting to the finish line, which is typically defined as a signed contract. The contract negotiation skills we need to get … Read This Post

methods of dispute resolution

Methods of Dispute Resolution: Building Trust in Online Mediation

| | Dispute Resolution

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, mediators and other negotiation practitioners often insisted on meeting in person, convinced that online methods of dispute resolution lack “the human touch”—the warmth, … Read This Post

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Negotiating Identity and Values-Based Disputes

| | Teaching Negotiation

How Do Parties in Conflict Negotiate Core Beliefs?
Identity and values-based disputes are particularly challenging to resolve, as identities are naturally inflexible and values are typically much less … Read Negotiating Identity and Values-Based Disputes

Ask A Negotiation Expert: The Accidental Negotiation Expert

| | Negotiation Skills

For 17 years, Katherine Shonk has been the editor of Negotiation Briefings. The author of two works of fiction (The Red Passport and Happy Now?), she is … Read This Post

Negotiation research you can use: The irrational impact of disappearing BATNAs

| | BATNA

In negotiation, a strong best alternative to a negotiated agreement, or BATNA, is generally regarded as our best source of power. When we know we can walk … Read This Post

How to Get a Great Deal When Trust is Low

| | Dealmaking

Negotiators from Western cultures, such as the United States, tend to be trusting. They’re often open to sharing information with counterparts, and expect ideas to flow freely. … Read How to Get a Great Deal When Trust is Low

When Negotiations is a Love Song

| | Dealmaking

On Valentine’s Day, 1945, Matilda Genevieve Scaduto, the 20-year- old granddaughter of Sicilian immigrants, was working the elevator at a Milwaukee hotel when she met a traveling … Read When Negotiations is a Love Song

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Learning from crisis negotiations

| | Crisis Negotiations

In crisis negotiations, we typically face a number of difficult decisions. Should we try to negotiate on our own or team up with others with shared goals? … Read Learning from crisis negotiations

Negotiation Exercises

The Best Negotiation Exercises, Simulations and Videos

| | Teaching Negotiation

Have you planned your curriculum and purchased your teaching material for next semester? We’re here to help you to find the best negotiation exercises and teaching aids … Read This Post

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Lessons Learned from Teaching Online: Pedagogy in a Pandemic

| | Teaching Negotiation

The exercises and videos developed for teaching online can also help improve in-person courses.
As teachers and trainers around the world are working to transition their courses online … Read This Post

Organizational leadership

Organizational Leadership: Negotiating Buy-In to Your Cause

| | Leadership Skills

During the Covid-19 pandemic, organizations and their leaders have faced unprecedented challenges that often cannot be fully met by going it alone. The story of how the … Read This Post

Value Distribution

Teach Your Students Value Distribution with a Simulation on Solar Power

| | Teaching Negotiation

Do your students really understand the difference between value distribution and integrative negotiation, and have you given them a chance to practice their distributive bargaining skills? Do … Read This Post