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Negotiate

How to get what you want - every time

By Harry Mills

Negotiate: The Seven Step Master Plan shows you how to get what you want from your boss, subordinates, clients, customers, suppliers, partners, and children.


Become a Master Negotiator

Here are the skills and strategies you need to become a master negotiator.

In seven easy ways you discover how to turn conflict into agreements and turn win-lose contests into win-win settlements.

Discover:

  • The sevens steps to agreement and what you need to do in each step to win the best possible deal
  • How to plan a winning strategy
  • How to uncover the other side's real needs
  • How to trade concessions
  • How to counter negative tactics
  • How to negotiate with sharks without getting eaten alive.
  • How to create deals which serve the best interests of both sides.
  • How to build productive relationships
  • How to avoid expensive mistakes
  • How to increase your personal power
  • How to make time work for you
  • How to build rapport and understanding.

Dozens of examples drawn form business, international and labor negotiations reinforce the key points.

Negotiate: The Seven Step Master Plan breaks new ground. It provides simple but practical ways to enhance your negotiation skills.

Proven Dealmaking Strategies

Use the strategies, skills and techniques of Negotiate: The Seven Step Mater Plan to:

  • Negotiate better terms with suppliers
  • Manage and supervise others more effectively
  • Close more sales
  • Improve your salary and conditions of work
  • Buy and sell cars, property and businesses
  • Win the support of your boss
  • Identify client needs
  • Resolve differences with your partner, family, neighbors and colleagues
  • Negotiate complicated contracts
  • Negotiate with staff and unions.

The Author

Harry Mills is an international authority on the art of negotiation. The author of 22 books, his best selling books have been translated into 12 languages.

His international client base includes, Toyota, BMW, Unilever, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Oracle and Lexus.

Harry mills conducts negotiation workshops across the world, and consults for companies and governments on how to negotiate big complex deals.

  1. Walking The Negotiator's tightrope
    The two routes to successful persuasion.

  2. Everyone Negotiates
    What is negotiation?
    Talking for money.

  3. R-E-S-P-E-C-T: The Seven Steps to Agreement
    The Bargaining Range.

  4. Step One: Ready Yourself
    Working out your BATNA
    Listing your interests
    Identifying the interests of the other party
    Listing, ranking and valuing the issues
    Determining the other side's objectives
    Gathering valuable information
    Analyzing the other party
    Rehearsing by role playing
    Testing your assumptions
    Consulting with others
    Determining the limit of your authority
    Planning your agenda
    Planning your critical first offer
    Picking a Winning Team
    Devising a Time Plan
    Choosing a Venue
    Designing a Strategy: Choosing the right tactics
    Checkpoints.

  5. Step Two: Explore Needs
    Setting the tone and climate
    Communicate you position
    Discovering their position
    The power of questions
    The art of active listening
    Reflective Listening
    The impact of body language
    The power of vocal control
    Using assertive language
    Using silence for effect
    Reading between the lines
    Checkpoints.

  6. Signal For Movement
    What is a signal
    How to signal
    Questioning for clarification
    Checkpoints.

  7. Step Four: Probe With Proposals
    What is a proposal
    Presenting proposals
    Receiving proposals
    Packaging
    Checkpoints.

  8. Step Five: Exchange Concessions
    How to make concessions
    How to build momentum
    Checkpoints.

  9. Step Six: Closing The Deal
    Timing the close
    Common closing techniques
    Other closes
    Managing the tension
    Deadlocks
    Checkpoints.

  10. Step Seven: Tie Up The Loose Ends
    Verifying what has been agreed to
    Planning for future differences
    Reviewing the performance
    Checkpoints.

  11. Building a Wining Relationship
    The golden rules of relationship building
    Psychological traps.

  12. Power and Persuasion
    The six sources of power.

  13. Planning Your Strategy

  14. Choosing the Right Tactics

  15. The Sixteen Critical Success Factors

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