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10 Dirty Negotiation Tactics and How to Beat Them
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Negotiation tactics
It's important to recognize when tactics are being used in an attempt to best you in a negotiation.
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10 tactics that strengthen your negotiation skills
- Left at the altar - This tactic often yields 11th-hour concessions.
- Making balloon futures - A service is forecasted to be worth more before it's performed.
- Calling a higher authority.
- Crunch time - Where the other party applies pressure.
- Bring in the dancer - Distracts by long talks without saying anything substantive to the issue at hand.
- Re-trading the deal - Other party tries to reopen points from a closed agreement.
- Huntley and Brinkley - Two people for the other party team up against you at the same time.
- Turning Soviet - Your side is not considered in the deal.
- The walkout - Deliberately walking out of a negotiation to show disinterest.
- Roaring brains - People that talk a lot with no real experience in a particular area.
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Carefully negotiate how you will negotiate in advance. Discussing procedural issues will clear the way for much more focused talks.
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The 7 Elements
A negotiation does not have to be a uni-dimensional, one-shot activity.
There are seven points to prepare yourself with:
- What do people want?
- What is my Plan B?
- Creating Value using shared interests.
- What's relevant and what's persuasive.
- One-shot or multiple rounds?
- The best way to communicate.
- What are my commitments?
What People Want
Knowing the other party's needs, wants and desires, getting to know what drives their negotiation, is crucial information in the planning stage.
The more we understand the interests of the other negotiating party, the better we can help them get what they want while taking care of our interests.