Negotiating Skills: Ask For More Than You Expect To Get

It creates some negotiating room, and you might just get what you’re asking for. Whether playing the role of buyer or seller in a sales transaction, asking for more than you expect to get is a classi...

The Most Powerful Persuasion Skill You'll Ever Learn

Criteria Elicitation This is without a doubt the most important persuasion skill that you can learn. If you’ll learn to apply this to every situation in which you find yourself you’ll be amazed at th...

Managing Conflict, in Life & Work: Using Ancient and Modern Approaches

Conflict is unavoidable, as each individual has unique and differing thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Therefore, it is important to learn ways to minimize and manage this difficulty, in order to ensure efficient and harmonious interactions. This article provides the genesis of a personal path, introducing tools and ways to minimize and manage conflict, while pointing to the origin of these concepts. After an overview of these modern and ancient approaches, a discussion will follow on applying successful tools and techniques for managing conflict. These ideas can be used to help clear the mind for better decision-making, and consequently, ensure a personal pathway to success.

Four Ways To Work Out Business Disputes

FOUR WAYS TO WORK OUT BUSINESS DISPUTES by Giuseppe Leone – Business and Workplace Mediator Business owners have four options to resolve disputes with partners, vendors or customers. Each option is ...

Guidelines for Ambassador Appointments

Ambassadors to other countries are a vital part of international relations. It is not uncommon for an ambassador to be the face or image of one country to another. Ambassadors act as a window into the importance of education, security, financial situations, business, and other societal issues. An ambassador has the power and authority to create opportunities through negotiation. Just like a negotiator, an ambassador must be equipped with specific qualities to ensure success. The distinction between the two should be that in the same.

Business: Keys To Negotiating Well

Whether it's buying a car, asking for a pay rise, saying 'no' to a friend or renting an apartment - at some stage in our lives we all are going to need to know how to negotiate. Yet, so few of us know the basic skills before embarking on life changing purchases or decisions! These 8 keys will assist you negotiate well.

Neogtiation: How to be Right Without Making Other People Wrong

What exactly are we trying to accomplish by proving to others that we’re right? We might win the argument but ultimately lose the relationship. Perhaps a better, deeper-rooted question is this: Why do we lose sight of success, of our big objective, when we feel challenged or intimidated?

Do You Want a Paycheck or a Passion? 10 Qualities Managers are Looking for in Hiring You

Verbal and Written Communication Being concise but specific in your communication is very important to anyone in this day of high tech communication. Many times the human factor of thoughtfulness and consideration is abandoned in the technology. A key formula in both written and verbal communication is: Tell’em What You Are Going To Tell’em, Tell’em, and Tell’em What You Told ‘Em.

How To Communicate Using Space

Proxemics is the study of the communicative aspects of personal space and understanding its concepts will help you establish nonverbal rapport in a negotiation.

Negotiating: The Impact of Time on Negotiations

Whether we are talking about one's personal or professional life, time is a precious commodity. Appreciate the time you are investing in resolving a dispute or negotiating an issue. Make sure your time is warranted before over-investing in a minor issue's resolution. Unlike money, wasted time is not recoverable. It is a limited commodity that should be wisely rationed.

Negotiators Need to be Passionate Champions

Skilled negotiators know that they must lead their opponents toward their goals in order to achieve a viable result. They bring passion to the negotiation to establish their conviction and commitment to the outcome.

Barter, The Electronic Handshake

A great way to help small businesses grow.

Creating the Right Atmosphere for Negotiating Differences

Conflict resolution is one of the most important skills needed in the 21st Century. Think how often you need to negotiate with people, even on the weekends. For example, on Saturday I started out negotiating with my husband whether or not to go for a run or a walk. We settled on a run/walk. Then we stopped into a garage sale to buy a coffee maker. We dickered a bit over the price. Later, my assistant wanted to change the day she came into work. That took some creative thinking to find a solution. In the evening, we talked with...