The prospect of boosting our negotiation skills can be so overwhelming that we often delay taking the necessary steps we can follow to improve, such as taking time to prepare thoroughly. The following five guidelines will help you break this daunting task into a series of manageable—and often essential—strategies.
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Negotiation Techniques To Get New Business Partnerships Off on the Right Foot
“A huge mistake.” “A shot in the dark.” “An audacious move.” Those are a few of the media’s characterizations of wireless carrier AT&T’s acquisition of media and entertainment firm Time Warner, announced on October 22, 2016, for $85.4 billion.
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Will You Avoid a Negotiation Impasse?
In the summer of 2016, Illinois became the only U.S. state in the past 80 years to go an entire year without a full operating budget, according to Reuters. It reached that dubious milestone thanks to an epic negotiation impasse between Republican governor Bruce Rauner and the Democratic-controlled state legislature. The story of the negotiation … Read Will You Avoid a Negotiation Impasse?
Using Business Negotiation Skills To Move a Deal in your Favor
Performers have increasingly learned business negotiation skills and played an outsized role in shaping plays and musicals vying for a Broadway stage. In 2016, the original off-Broadway cast of Hamilton negotiated with the show’s producers to acknowledge their contributions to the hit musical by guaranteeing them a small share of the show’s profits.
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How Professional Negotiators Can Avoid Public Controversy
In negotiation, we sometimes become so focused on what we’re trying to achieve at the bargaining table that we fail to adequately account for how the deal could look to observers. As two recent deals that the U.S. government reached with Iran show, it’s important for professional negotiators to consider the optics.
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- Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
- Group Decision Making: Best Practices and Pitfalls
- Famous Negotiations Cases – NBA and the Power of Deadlines at the Bargaining Table
- Power Tactics in Negotiation: How to Gain Leverage with Stronger Parties
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Ethics in Negotiations: How to Deal with Deception at the Bargaining Table
- When Our “Principles” Crash up Against our Negotiation Goals
- Bargaining in Bad Faith: Dealing with “False Negotiators”
- When Dealing with Difficult People, Try a Complementary Approach
- Examples of Difficult Situations at Work: Consensus and Negotiated Agreements
- Dealmaking
- Dispute Resolution
- International Negotiation
- Leadership Skills
- Mediation
- Negotiation Skills
- In Negotiation, How Much Do Personality and Other Individual Differences Matter?
- Dear Negotiation Coach: When Silence in Negotiation is Golden
- Bargaining Power in Negotiations: Leveling the Playing Field
- Negotiation Skills for Win-Win Negotiations
- Reservation Point in Negotiation: Reach Negotiated Agreements by Asking the Right Questions
- Negotiation Training
- Collaborative Negotiation Examples: Tenants and Landlords
- Use a Negotiation Preparation Worksheet for Continuous Improvement
- 10 Negotiation Training Skills Every Organization Needs
- Ethics and Negotiation: 5 Principles of Negotiation to Boost Your Bargaining Skills in Business Situations
- The Importance of a Relationship in Negotiation
- Salary Negotiations
- Teaching Negotiation
- New Simulation: Negotiating a Management Crisis
- New Simulation: International Business Acquisition Negotiated Online
- Bidding in an International Business Negotiation: Euro-Idol
- Negotiating with Colleagues: Training for Collaborative Human Resources Negotiations
- New Great Negotiator Case and Video: Christiana Figueres, former UNFCCC Executive Secretary
- Win-Win Negotiations