Implement Your Negotiation Strategy More Effectively
Better implementation leads to better outcomes.
- Forty-eight percent of CIOs believe their budgets are inadequate.
- CIOs and IT departments are getting more involved with negotiations to reduce costs and risk.
- Not all negotiators are created equal, and the gap between a skilled negotiator and an average negotiator is not always easy to identify objectively.
- Skilled negotiators are in short supply.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Preparation is critical for the success of your negotiation, but you cannot prepare for every eventuality.
- Communication is the heart and soul of negotiations, but what is being “said” is only part of the picture.
- Skilled negotiators separate themselves based on skillsets, and outcomes alone may not provide an accurate assessment of a negotiator.
Impact and Result
Addressing and managing critical negotiation elements helps:
- Improve negotiation skills.
- Implement your negotiation strategy more effectively.
- Improve negotiation results.
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Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 10 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
- Call 1: Managing six key items during a negotiation.
- Call 2: Setting the proper tone for the negotiation sessions.
- Call 3: Focusing on three types of intangibles to improve your negotiation skills.
- Call 4: Communicating more effectively verbally and non-verbally.
- Call 5: Understanding and dealing with personality types.
- Call 6: Managing seven key aspects of your negotiation discussions.
- Call 7: Dealing with deadlocks and impasses and understanding their value.
- Call 8: Granting concessions and evaluating concessions received.
- Call 9: Identifying and defeating common vendor negotiation ploys.
- Call 10: Deciding whether to continue and how to walk away gracefully.
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