An advantage to improving your negotiation skills is that they can be used in all areas of your life. Whenever you encounter a situation that calls for you to discuss your desired outcomes with individuals or groups who do not share your exact outlook, you can call on these abilities to reach a compromise. Negotiation [...]
We often hear on the news these days that, in some pay deal or political situation, negotiations have broken down, or that the opposing sides are locked in negotiations. I doubt that many of us give a thought to what goes on in these discussions, but behind those closed doors there could be many different [...]
Negotiation is part of life; there’s really no escaping it. It might be in the merging of two multinational corporations, it might be a couple deciding where to go on a Friday night, it might be a number of other things. Certainly, no business can hope to prosper unless staff who are involved [...]
When negotiating a salary increase, it is vital to select a favourable time for the manager and for the company in general. Begin by considering the company’s economic position overall. If the country is in the middle of a recession for example, then do not make yourself seem foolish by asking for a pay rise [...]
In a tight economy, all businesses are looking for new sources of potential customers. In a tight economy, businesses are also looking for customers who actually have money to spend. But they may not be looking in the right place. There is a secure one-trillion-dollar source of business in the United States that about eighty [...]