When you break it down, almost every aspect of business involves an element of negotiation. By honing your perspective taking skills, you are much more likely to come up with solutions that are acceptable to all parties.

Using perspective taking

<ul><li>Put aside your feelings so that you can concentrate only on the other person’s perspective.</li><li>Use open ended questions that can help you draw out the interests and motivation that the person may not be verbalizing.</li><li>Be clear about your own position and the weaknesses it has.</li><li>Remove any personal intentions you may have, so as not to project them on to the other person.</li><li>Using what you know about the person, their background, their mood, their intentions and expectations,  imagine how they are seeing the current situation.</li><li>Validate their position by paraphrasing back to them what you think their position is.</li></ul>

Develop perspective taking

It’s the ability to take on someone else’s point of view when thinking.By taking yourself out of the equation, the motivations of your opponent becomes clearer. And by understanding the other side’s true motivations, you’re in a better position to anticipate their responses and offer them an acceptable compromise.

What Perspective Taking Is

Are you the kind of person who wants to achieve massive success in your life? Do you have the mental toughness to make that happen? I think we can all agree that no matter your ambitions, achieving success can be difficult; and over time, the daily grind can take a toll on your physical, mental, and emotional energy.

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