Negotiation Skills
Whether you’re buying or selling, whether it’s about money, time, commitment,, or cooperation, being skilled at negotiating can be crucial to your success. Effective negotiation helps you to resolve situations where, what you want, conflicts with what someone else wants. Are you a Negotiator? I think Everyone is a negotiator. It is an everyday occurrence. Life is an endless series of interactions that require negotiation. You are confronted daily with countless situations in which you are called upon to negotiate, to reach an agreement, or to resolve a conflict or difference of opinion (e.g., negotiate bedtime with children; holiday or vacation destination with family and/or friends). The issue is not whether you negotiate, but rather how effective you are. Negotiation is a skill that can be improved with practice. Although everyone negotiates informally all the time without even being aware of it, formal negotiation is a skill that can be learned through experience and pract