Negotiation Skills
Preparation, Effective Communication, Careful Listening, Creative Collaboration, Constructive Facilitation.
“Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.” – Lamman Rucker
A strong strategy to ensure each team member will actively contribute to any project or program to complete it in time will yield fruitful results and stressed here in this context. Advance preparation gives more clarity about the situation, scope, criteria for decision making will help the people and the task makes an impact on the part of resources available in given time for the purpose gives more clarity to generate and provide more information to share and satisfy the team members in large scale. It also helps to prepare mentally, emotionally, constructively, respectfully with open mind by avoiding assumptions, biased emotions and unwarranted comments could cloud our judgement to trigger the conflicts. Listen carefully while negotiating for better understanding to know the ground realities. Listening is an art. It helps us to be silent and observe more from all corners makes some sense and gives ability to determine and dedicate to sacrifice and focus more on our desired goals. It also helps to create rapport and trust the team to create the team spirit among team members. One of the key negotiation skill is an effective communication to avoid misunderstandings and differences or disputes among team members is the first and foremost to maintain cordial and friendly relations to run the organization smoothly helps a lot. Sharing is caring. Share your views with others. According to information management system delaying information has no information at all. Timely action gives timely results. A stitch in time saves nine. Creative collaboration and coordination, flexibility and adoptability with willingness to compromise evaluates ideas, solutions, alternatives to satisfy majority of their needs and preferences will fulfill to great extent. It creates value and synergy to foster innovation and learning to achieve mutual satisfaction and commitment. Team consensus is part of the negotiation process which facilitates to enforce the ground rules such as respect, honesty, integrity, confidentiality, trust and so on.
