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Your Insufficiently Developed Business Negotiation Skills Ability Could Cause Critical Negotiation Interventions To Fail Due To Inappropriate Planning
Two parties are engaged in a negotiation - one reaches his/her objective(s) and is happy, whilst the other walks away unhappy with the outcome. Does this situation sound familiar?
Do you often feel displeased with a settlement that you have reached? Have you sometimes entered into an agreement only to feel remorse soon after reaching agreement?
SUCCESS VS FAILURE
What differentiates success vs failure in business negotiations?
Most of us acknowledge the importance of preparation to achieve positive results and it is therefore remarkable to note that the majority of business negotiators do not spend adequate time planning for negotiations, often due to not enough negotiation training. Professional sports people spend notably more time preparing for a championship than they spend in competition; should it not be the same for business negotiators?
THE EVIDENCE
Commercial negotiators only spend roughly 1/3 as much time preparing for negotiation as they in reality spend in negotiation. If you were a professional sports person, this would mean that you devoted only 1/3 as much time training & preparing as you do competing. The leading contributor to successful commercial negotiation results is the quality of your preparation for the negotiation.
As a matter of negotiation strategy, consider the following main 5 factors of preparation and at the same time you will simultaneously enhance your negotiation skills:
1. Understand Yourself
Before we even put into operation best- and leading practice negotiation, it is important that we first understand our own strengths & weaknesses and it is key that we make use of personal profiling tools to highlight our areas of preference within the context of commercial negotiations, which enables us to have a reference point from which to plot our skills development.
2. Vision
What is the main goal behind the negotiation? Is the negotiation about price or is it about the value that can be added? What are the main motivating factors behind your counterparty's position? What common ground, if any, exists between your and your counterparty's vision? It is key to comprehend the interests or silent motivations behind the positions of all parties to the negotiation and it is only by asking questions that we will uncover these interests.
3. Value
What are the main deal objectives being pursued in this negotiation? What are the facts and figures strengthening the negotiation environment? What alternatives does each party have, if any? Once again we should try to identify, rank & weigh the goals of all parties to the negotiation and only then are we in a position to highlight those objectives that are shared and at the same time deal with those objectives that are likely to produce conflict.
4. Process
Have you spent time preparing an agenda for your upcoming negotiation? Have you noted all the concessions that you will give & receive? Do you have tools/templates at your disposal to support the efficiency of the negotiation process.?
5. Relationship
It is easy to forget that we deal with people who have goals & aspirations not unlike our own and it is not always just about the money. The research is clear that people are more likely to agree with those whom they trust & like, than with those with whom they little in common. Try to focus on those interests that you share with your negotiation counterparts, and do not forget to focus on the human elements.
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