Police Negotiation Techniques
They aim to reconcile a counterpart’s problems with the need to maintain the peace for society at large.
Using active-listening techniques, maintaining an open-minded approach, and building rapport to influence one’s counterpart are some of the skills used to resolve conflict and this skills can also be used on other kinds of negotiation.
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- Integrative negotiators: create value between negotiating counterparts.
- Distributive negotiators: maximize their claim to value in the negotiation at hand.
- Crisis negotiators: apply advanced conflict resolution skills strategically according to context.
- Communication: Opening communication avenues to your counterpart signals you are ready to listen and builds rapport between you.
- Patience: Allowing your counterpart to air concerns and not jumping to conclusions or rushing towards a resolution also builds rapport.
- Active Listening: An affective skill that helps to maintain an open dialogue and build trust between counterparts also doubling as information gathering.
- Respect: Makes your counterpart feel understood and that their concerns are being heard and addressed.
- Calm: its display helps the counterpart feel there is an alternative way to taking harsh measures.
- Self-Awareness: It's establishing a relationship with the counterpart while keeping communications strategic and purposeful.
- Adaptability: Is to adapt and respond to changing circumstances in a way that further negotiation goals.
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- Prepare for crisis: Good crisis-management plans predict and set mechanisms to deal with and minimize the effects of disputes.
- Establish ground rules: This establishes a foundation for trust, and disincentivizes extreme demands.
- Confront emotions head-on: Listen to your counterpart's demands aiming to identify his underlying motivations. Active-listening techniques, such as self-disclosure, paraphrasing, and supportive remarks may help.
- Don’t rush the process: Strong emotions have a tendency to de-escalate over time, which may lead to lighter demands.
- Strengthen the relationship: establishing positive bonds helps both parties to see what would satisfy its counterpart.
In crisis situations, emotions can dictate a person’s actions at the detriment of rational thinking.
...depending on different social motives:
- Individualists seek to maximize their own outcomes with little regard for their counterparts’ outcomes. .
- Cooperators strive to maximize both their own and other parties’ outcomes and to see that resources are divided fairly.
- Competitives seek to get a better deal than their “opponent.” They behave in a self-serving manner and often lack the trust needed to solve problems jointly.
- Altruists, who are quite rare, put their counterpart’s needs and wants above their own.