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Enhance your negotiation skills by learning proven methods for preparation, information gathering, and strategic planning. Understand the importance of environmental factors and the roles of parties involved. Discover how to prioritize goals, define interests, choose effective strategies, set agendas, and build your BATNA. Take your negotiation game to the next level with practical tips and insights.
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Preparation for Negotiations How to Prepare
Preparation for Negotiations • Introduction • Information Gathering • Methods and Sources of Information Collecting • Making a Negotiation Plan
Information Gathering • Roles of Negotiation Information • Information on Related Environmental Factors • Knowing the Opponent • Knowing Competitors • Knowing Oneself
Roles of Negotiation Information • As the basis for working out strategic plans • As a means to control the negotiation process • As the medium between the two parties
Information on Related Environmental Factors • The Political State • The legal System • Religious Beliefs • Business Conventions • Financial State • Social Customs • Infrastructure and Logistics System • Climate factor
Importance of Knowledge • Knowing the Opponent • Nature of the company • Credit status and financial status • Individuals • Knowing competitors • Knowing oneself
Making Negotiation Plans • Establishing goals • Clarifying objectives • Prioritizing one’s goals • Three levels of goals • Defining one’s interest • Choosing a Strategy • Setting an agenda • Building one’s BATNA • Choosing negotiation places • Adjusting based on reality backed up by learning
Prioritizing One’s Goals • Three levels of goals • Ideal target • Minimum target • Realistic target
Defining one’s interest • Substantive interest • Process-based interest • Relationship-based interest
Choosing a Strategy • Avoidance • Competition • Accommodation • Compromise • Collaboration
Setting an agenda • List all issues to be debated • Give time frames to each issue • Arrange order for the topics
Building One’s BATNA • Best Alternative To a Negotiation Agreement
Choosing Negotiation Places • Host Court • Guest Court • Third Party’s Court
Rehearsing Roles • Discover advantages and disadvantages of the team • Determine the order of negotiation • Analyze what sticky problems might appear • Work out measures to deal with them
Adjusting based on reality backed up by learning • A model of negotiation • Repeated cycles of • Learning • Planning