Creativity is essential to reaching mutually beneficial solutions in negotiations. Most people are actually more comfortable arguing or convincing others to accept their ideas than they are using creativity to generate win-win solutions. Creativity requires the ability to take risks, be open to ideas, defer criticisms, and empathize. Are you scared to be creative?
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Best Negotiating Practices, a set of skills, behaviors and strategies that move you from fundamental understanding, to proficiency, to mastery in negotiations
Five step collaborative negotiating framework that ensures predictable, repeatable results as you build strong relationships
Prepare
- Explore value
- Define scope
- Identify and research stakeholders
- Develop fact base
- Analyze information & situation
- Begin to understand interests
- Define Most Desired Outcomes, Goals & Least Acceptables
- Identify alternate solutions
Exchange
- Discover and create value
- Exchange information
- Build rapport & trust
- Assess interests
- Probe for understanding
- Assess competency
- Validate assumptions
- Explore options
- Align goals
- Agree on agenda
Bargain
- Create and distribute value
- Communicate
- Make opening proposals
- Handle objections
- Probe
- Make and manage concessions
- Give and take
- Explore options
- Summarize often
Conclude
- Capture value
- Final summarization
- Gain commitment
- Finalize agreement
- Thank them
Execute
- Expand value
- Implement solution
- Ensure compliance
- Manage changes
- Strengthen relationship
- Maintain trust
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