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 they understand that every negotiation includes elements of both value creation and value distribution? To help teach these key negotiation skills the Teaching Negotiation Resource Center (TNRC) has developed a … Read More 
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Teaching Negotiation: Understanding The Impact Of Role-Play Simulations
Negotiation can be challenging. And so can teaching it! At the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School, we help educators, scholars and practitioners like you learn how to more effectively teach negotiation.
Notably, role-play simulations are a particularly useful way to facilitate experimentation and introduce participants to new dispute resolution tools, techniques and … Read More
Salary Negotiations and How to Negotiate Performance-Based Pay
Salary negotiations are never predictable. Imagine that you are a sales rep with a company that is getting hit hard by a financial crisis. No one has been laid off yet, but everyone is nervous about that possibility. In an effort to save jobs, your sales manager has quietly proposed that everyone take lower base … Read More
Top Ten Posts About Conflict Resolution
Conflict resolution is the process of resolving a dispute or a conflict by meeting at least some of each side’s needs and addressing their interests. Conflict resolution sometimes requires both a power-based and an interest-based approach, such as the simultaneous pursuit of litigation (the use of legal power) and negotiation (attempts to reconcile each party’s … Read More
Undecided on Your Dispute Resolution Process? Combine Mediation and Arbitration, Known as Med-Arb
The choice: arbitration vs. mediation. You’re not sure which of two common dispute resolution processes, mediation or arbitration, to use to resolve your conflict.
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Negotiation Games
Going to trial, it’s said, is like rolling the dice. In this article, we discuss what negotiators need to be aware of to avoid negotiation games before heading to the courtroom.
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Powerful Conflict Resolution Games to Help You Teach Negotiation
From complicated negotiation strategies to artful subterfuge, conflict resolution games are one of the very best ways to prepare for the challenges of real-world negotiation. Games that employ a Prisoner’s Dilemma structure (where rational parties may not cooperate despite their best interests) enable participants to analyze negotiations, make strategic decisions, and anticipate their counterpart’s next … Read More
Using Negotiation Games to Develop Skills for Commercial Dispute Resolution
Teach your students the art of negotiating for success with these great negotiation games.
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A publicly traded company on the NYSE with a reputation for business savvy and lucrative deal making is caught in a morally questionable situation that threatens the very future of the firm. As the dust settles, the CEO, on whose watch the scandal occurred, is forced to step down. Word … Read More
Crossed Wires? Negotiation Games To Help Your Business Deal Sidestep Legal, Technical And Emotional Glitches
What’s faster than the pace of technological development? The pace of lawsuits being filed about the adoption of new technologies, patent infringement, and intellectual property rights. In our modern world, professionals must be able to resolve highly challenging technology-related disputes – often before they reach the courtroom. That’s where the Program on Negotiation’s Teaching … Read More
Teach “Head and Heart” Negotiation with New Negotiation Game Technology
Do you teach students how to structure a negotiation process while helping them to develop the emotional acuity necessary for building relationships with counterparts? Professor Linda Kaboolian refers to this as “teaching head and heart negotiation”; an approach that was central to the 10 years she spent teaching simulation-based negotiation at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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World in Crisis! One of the Most Immersive and Rewarding Negotiation Games Ever Created
This negotiation simulation comprised “the most intense, challenging and educational days of my life” reported one participant. What sort of experience could possibly elicit such a comment? One of the most immersive and rewarding negotiation games ever developed: a 72-party mega-simulation called the Transition Exercise!
The Transition (Excercise Trailer) from MediaTank on Vimeo.
This one-of-a-kind, intensive, multi-party … Read More
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BATNA
- What is BATNA? How to Find Your Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement
- Negotiation research you can use: The irrational impact of disappearing BATNAs
- BATNA and Other Sources of Power at the Negotiation Table
- Negotiation Examples: How Crisis Negotiators Use Text Messaging
- Take your BATNA to the Next Level
- Business Negotiations
- Conflict Resolution
- Tough Topics in Negotiation: Negotiating a Non-Compete Agreement with Employers
- How to Deal with Threats: 4 Negotiation Tips for Managing Conflict at the Bargaining Table
- Do Attitudes in Negotiation Influence Results?
- The Pitfalls of Negotiations Over Email
- In Real-Life Conflict Scenarios, Promote Constructive Dissent
- Crisis Negotiations
- Learning from crisis negotiations
- What is Crisis Management in Negotiation?
- Famous Negotiations Cases – NBA and the Power of Deadlines at the Bargaining Table
- Negotiation in the News: Last Negotiating Moves From A Never-Boring President
- Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Negotiating with the Enemy
- Negotiation Tactics for Bargaining with Difficult People: The Comcast Merger
- Ethics in Negotiations: How to Deal with Deception at the Bargaining Table
- Managing Difficult Conversations: Achieving Objectives with Backmapping Negotiation Strategies
- When Dealing with Difficult People, Try a Complementary Approach
- Dealmaking
- Dispute Resolution
- International Negotiation
- Cross-Cultural Communication in Business Negotiations
- How to Overcome Cultural Barriers in Negotiation
- Best Negotiators in History: Nelson Mandela and His Negotiation Style
- How to Overcome Cultural Barriers in Communication – Cultural Approximations of Time and the Impact on Negotiations
- The Negotiation Process in China
- Leadership Skills
- Negotiations, Gender, and Status at the Bargaining Table
- How to Negotiate in Cross-Cultural Situations
- Organizational Leadership: Negotiating Buy-In to Your Cause
- Leadership Styles in Negotiation: The Case of Ebay and Paypal
- Leadership Skills in Negotiation: How to Negotiate Equity Incentives with Senior Management
- Mediation
- Mediation Techniques – Resolve Disputes and Manage Conflict with These Mediation Skills
- The Mediation Process and Dispute Resolution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Training: Mediation Curriculum
- Types of Mediation: Choose the Type Best Suited to Your Conflict
- Why is Negotiation Important: Mediation in Transactional Negotiations
- Negotiation Skills
- How Much Does Personality in Negotiation Matter?
- How to Negotiate Under Pressure
- Reservation Point in Negotiation: Reach Negotiated Agreements by Asking the Right Questions
- Dear Negotiation Coach: Can Negotiation Theory Help Us Understand Our Religious Identity?
- Understanding Different Negotiation Styles
- Negotiation Training
- Ethics and Negotiation: 5 Principles of Negotiation to Boost Your Bargaining Skills in Business Situations
- 10 Negotiation Training Skills Every Organization Needs
- Best Negotiation Books: A Negotiation Reading List
- Dear Negotiation Coach: Breaking Bad News in Negotiation
- Collaborative Negotiation Examples: Tenants and Landlords
- Salary Negotiations
- Teaching Negotiation
- New Simulation on Bidding in an International Business Negotiation: Euro-Idol
- Dear Negotiation Coach: What Are Business Negotiation Skills for Entrepreneurs?
- Teaching Mediation: Exercises to Help Students Acquire Mediation Skills
- Check Out the International Investor-State Arbitration Video Course
- Learn from the Best with the Great Negotiator Case Studies
- Win-Win Negotiations