business negotiators

For Business Negotiators, Patience Can be a Virtue

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Business negotiators know that persistence and tenacity can make all the difference between impasse and a game-changing breakthrough. Take the saga behind Microsoft’s 2013 announcement of its … Read This Post

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Negotiation Team Dynamics: The Divide-and-Conquer Strategy

| | International Negotiation

Negotiation team dynamics can allow for a range of novel negotiation techniques, including the divide-and-conquer strategy. … Read This Post

ethical negotiation behavior

Tired of Liars? Promote More Ethical Negotiation Behavior

| | Negotiation Skills

Promoting ethical negotiation behavior is one of the steps we can take to reduce the odds that someone will try to deceive us, and is likely to … Read This Post

Negotiating with Kids

Dear Negotiation Coach: What is the Secret to Negotiating with Kids Successfully?

| | Win-Win Negotiations

Some of our toughest negotiations happen away from the bargaining table. In fact, they may happen closer to our dinner table. We received a question from a … Read This Post

Dealing with Difficult Personalities

Dealing with challenging negotiators

| | Dealing with Difficult People

Three research studies offer advice on how to cope with counterparts who display varying degrees of difficult behavior. … Read Dealing with challenging negotiators

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Act Now to Purchase Materials for Next Semester and Avoid a Price Increase

| | Teaching Negotiation

Do you already have your curriculum planned for next semester? Purchase your materials today to avoid a price increase.
Starting on December 1st, the Teaching Negotiation Resource Center … Read This Post

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What is an Arbitration Agreement?

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If you have ever owned a cell phone or been issued a credit card, odds are you’ve signed an arbitration agreement. You also may have signed an … Read What is an Arbitration Agreement?

Trust in Negotiations

Negotiation Skills: Building Trust in Negotiations

| | Negotiation Skills

Trust in negotiations may develop naturally over time, but negotiators rarely have the luxury of letting nature take its course. Thus it sometimes seems easiest to play it … Read This Post

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The Star Wars Negotiations and Trust at the Negotiation Table

| | Business Negotiations

What is negotiation in business? Negotiation research has identified it as a process of building trust and negotiation tactics for building trust at the bargaining table have … Read This Post

Negotiating with Difficult Personalities

Negotiating with Difficult Personalities and “Dark” Personality Traits

| | Dealing with Difficult People

Have you ever found yourself negotiating with difficult personalities, or negotiating with someone who seemed entirely ruthless and lacking in empathy? From time to time, we may … Read This Post

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Dealmaking Secrets from Henry Kissinger

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More than 1,600 international relations experts from across the political spectrum overwhelmingly rate Henry Kissinger, who served under former presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, the most … Read Dealmaking Secrets from Henry Kissinger

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Finding Mutual Gains In “Non-Negotiation”

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The National Football League’s Pittsburgh Steelers faced a dilemma. Mid-contract, the team’s star wide receiver, Antonio Brown, asked the team to improve upon the six-year, $42.5 million … Read Finding Mutual Gains In “Non-Negotiation”