September 2, 2008
Negotiation skills, an essential life skill
Negotiation skills
Another essential life skill. We are constantly negotiating in our personal and business life - in business negotiation can make all the difference from profit and loss.
- Negotiation objectives - lets be clear on what we are trying to achieve
- Preparing for our negotiations - steps we must take to succeed
- Handling different types of negotiator
- The negotiation ritual step-by-step and how to control each phase
- Buyers' tricks to watch out for and counter
- Sellers' tricks - how to spot and manage them
- Dirty tricks - unacceptable negotiation techniques to be avoided
- Our behavior in the negotiation and how to interpret the other side's signals
- Co-operative negotiation techniques or 'interest based negotiations'
- Team negotiation techniques
Filed under negotiation skills by Michael Horner
