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What’s so great about small talk?

| | Dealmaking

This spring and summer, professional sports leagues scrambled to negotiate deals with players’ unions to start or resume their seasons with health, financial, and logistical accommodations for … Read What’s so great about small talk?

Robin Rue Simmons

Negotiating to turn your dreams into reality

| | Negotiation Skills

They say it pays to dream big, but when our dreams depend on other people’s funding and approval, they can easily dissolve. Drawing on savvy negotiation skills, … Read Negotiating to turn your dreams into reality

Josh Weiss The Book of Real-World Negotiations

The Book of Real-World Negotiations: Successful Strategies from Government, Business, and Daily Life

| | Negotiation Training

From a life-and-death hostage situation to the Philippines peace process, Joshua Weiss gives us an insider look at the world’s most high-stakes deals to learn what works—and … Read This Post

Science Diplomacy

New Simulation on Science Diplomacy

| | Teaching Negotiation

Teach Your Students to Incorporate Scientific Findings into International Policy Decisions
Science diplomacy elevates the role of science and technology in addressing global challenges. While science diplomacy has … Read New Simulation on Science Diplomacy

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Negotiation and Conflict Management Styles

| | Conflict Resolution

In negotiation and conflict management, we bring our unique personalities and styles to the table. A reserved, cautious person is likely to bargain differently than someone who … Read Negotiation and Conflict Management Styles

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Dealing with Difficult Clients: Price Negotiations

| | Dealing with Difficult People

When dealing with difficult clients, we sometimes can trace our struggles to the early stages of our interactions—including our price negotiations. If initial price negotiations are contentious … Read This Post

Negotiation Journal

Prepare for the Semester: Negotiation Pedagogy Articles from the Negotiation Journal

| | Pedagogy at PON, Teaching Negotiation

Whether you are going to be teaching negotiation next semester for the first time, or are a seasoned negotiation instructor, insightful research in negotiation pedagogy can help … Read This Post

organizational leadership

Organizational Leadership and Troubled Deals

| | Leadership Skills

When a negotiation isn’t going well, strong leadership skills are often needed to get it back on track. Two recent news stories demonstrate that tenacious and inventive … Read Organizational Leadership and Troubled Deals

Ask a Negotiation Expert: Better Calibrate Your Confidence

| | Business Negotiations

Our decisions in negotiation depend greatly on our predictions about how the future will unfold. But, as has never been more apparent than in 2020, the future … Read This Post

Black Lives Matter

Stronger together: Achieving goals through negotiation and nonviolent action

| | Business Negotiations

Since 2013, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has been organizing nonviolent action to defund police forces and invest in Black communities. For years, many Americans—particular White … Read This Post

Wide World of Sports

Negotiation In The News: The NBA’s Roller-Coaster Disney Deal

| | Business Negotiations

As a model of how negotiators can make lemonade out of lemons amid the global pandemic, the agreement
between the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Basketball … Read This Post

Why diversity efforts fail—and how your organization can do better

| | Business Negotiations

The death of George Floyd beneath the knee of a White Minneapolis police officer provoked many Americans to protest police brutality and racial injustice for the first … Read This Post