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Painless and profitable: Our guide to winning at price negotiation

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A wide variety of possible price negotiation strategies exist but all of them have a common baseline. That’s why successful bargaining requires special knowledge of negotiation tactics and advanced negotiation skills. Expect to be much more efficient at the following: How do I negotiate the price politely?

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Why are questions so important? (Questioning skills)

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See the section below on negotiation. Questions in persuasion and negotiation – Influencing Questions play an important role in persuasion and negotiation too. Some negotiators suggest you avoid using “ Why” questions as it can imply criticism. How can I help to make this better for us?” “How

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What is Socratic questioning? (Questioning skills)

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It’s helpful in conversations, critical thinking and negotiation. Long before I learned of the value of Socratic questioning in coaching and counselling, I remember an editor asking me to use Socratic questioning in some writing. Socratic questioning is a way to drive logical argument. So what is Socratic questioning? Questioning skills).

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Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing

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In practice, there is usually an iterative process where top-down and bottom-up strategies are negotiated and aligned. We talked about the helicopter approach to strategy – looking down on the big picture (rather than getting stuck in the detail) with an eye on the horizon.

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Achieve more engagement and buy-in: Relationships, Plan, Expectations, Benefits, Persuasion and Training

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As well as switching from “tell” to “ask”, we explored various ideas including: Influence – Cialdini’s six principles of the psychology of persuasion (kimtasso.com) Power of three – Writing and presentation basics (Video) (kimtasso.com) Book review – Persuasion: The art of influencing people by James Borg (kimtasso.com) leader’s guide to (..)

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Preparing M&BD professionals for the future – learning, skills and knowledge transfer

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Particularly to equip M&BD teams with the skills needed to add strategic value : Strong technical capabilities Ability to develop strong relationships with key stakeholders Detailed knowledge of the business Advanced communication skills Inquisitive and commercial mindset Ability to influence Emotional intelligence Strategic and lateral thinker (..)

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Book review – Can we start again? The patterns of NLP applied to business interactions by Daryll Scott

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However, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) has arisen a few times at recent training workshops so I thought I would publish the review as a blog post. This book review was published in Magazine – PM Forum way back in 2008. Book review – Can we start again? The patterns of NLP applied to business interactions by Daryll Scott.