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Your Insufficiently Developed Business Negotiation Skills Ability Could Cause Critical Negotiation Interventions To Collapse Due To Poor Preparation
Two people are busy in a negotiation - one achieves his/her objective(s) and is very pleased, whilst the other walks away disappointed with the result. Does this scenario sound familiar?
How often have you felt displeased with a settlement that you have reached? Have you ever entered into a settlement only to feel regret soon after sealing the deal?
SUCCESS VS FAILURE
What differentiates success vs failure in commercial negotiations?
Most of us recognise the significance of preparation to achieve positive results and it is therefore interesting to note that most commercial negotiators do not spend enough time planning for negotiations, often due to insufficient negotiation training. Professional sports people spend significantly more time preparing for competition than they spend in competition; should it not be the same for business negotiators?
THE EVIDENCE
Business negotiators only spend roughly 1/3 as much time planning for negotiation as they in reality spend in negotiation. If you were a professional sports person, this would mean that you spent only 1/3 as much time training & planning as you do in competition. The number 1 contributor to successful business negotiation outcomes is the quality of your planning for the negotiation.
As a matter of negotiation strategy, consider the following key 5 components of preparation and at the same time you will also develop your negotiation skills:
1. Understand Yourself
Before we even employ best- and leading practice negotiation, it is important that we first understand our own strengths & weaknesses and it is key that we make use of personal profiling tools to highlight our areas of preference within the framework of commercial negotiations, which enables us to have a reference point from which to plot our skills development.
2. Vision
What is the fundamental aim behind the negotiation? Is the negotiation about price or is it about the value that can be added? What are the key motivating issues behind your counterparty's position? What common ground, if any, exists between your and your counterparty's vision? It is key to understand the drivers or silent motivations behind the positions of all parties to the negotiation and it is only by asking questions that we will discover these interests.
3. Value
What are the most important deal goals being targeted in this negotiation? What are the facts and figures contributing to the negotiation environment? What alternatives does each party have, if any? Once again we should try to identify, prioritise & weigh the objectives of all parties to the negotiation and only then are we in a position to highlight those goals that are shared and at the same time deal with those objectives that are likely to result in conflict.
4. Process
Have you spent time preparing an agenda for your forthcoming negotiation? Have you listed all the trades that you will give & receive? Do you have tools/templates at your disposal to support the efficiency of the negotiation cycle.?
5. Relationship
It is easy to forget that we deal with individuals who have goals & aspirations similar to our own and it is not always just about the contractual terms. The research is clear that people are more likely to agree with those whom they trust & like, than with those with whom they little in common. Try to focus on those things that you share with your negotiation counterparts, and do not forget to focus on the people.
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