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Rabu, 22 Juni 2011

Information Strategies to Break Impasse When Negotiating

Information can be the most important ingredient to successful negotiations. When determining your negotiating goals, you use knowledge to set them. The more knowledge you possess on the topic or issues to be negotiated on, the simpler it will be to set your goals & plan accordingly. Part of your strategy may be in the way you get & share knowledge. & as new knowledge is discovered, you can reevaluate your goals & alter them accordingly.

Because knowledge is so key to the negotiation process, it only makes sense that it is as well as a key element when breaking an deadlock. Whenever negotiations bog down & are ceasing to move forward, thing to evaluate is the knowledge you have gathered, & what knowledge has been shared. You may require to collect or share more knowledge to get negotiations moving forward again.

Share More Knowledge
They know that knowledge is power in a negotiation. The more you learn about what you are negotiating about, the better your odds at reaching a lovely deal. The party with the most knowledge usually has the upper hand. However, in the coursework of the heat of battle, they sometimes forget that sharing knowledge with the opposite party can help them evaluate their position, better understand your position, more exactly asses the issues, & find compatible interests to make a deal.

Collect More Knowledge
Sometimes negotiations fail to move forward because the parties have not gathered sufficient knowledge to exactly evaluate each side's options to a negotiated agreement. I keep in mind a matter I mediated that took months because I had to repeatedly send the parties off to collect additional knowledge regarding the issues they were mediating. After each session, the parties left to complete their "homework" before reconvening at our next arranged meeting. They would use the additional knowledge to move forward until they hit another stopping point. I was one time able to keep the parties engaged, & focused on how they were making progress, as I sent them off to find additional missing pieces that they needed to finalize the resolution. Sometimes this included the parties themselves actually doing something, & other times they had to seek out specialists to gain the additional needed knowledge. Irrespective of how the additional knowledge was obtained, it was needed to get past the breaking point & move the negotiations forward.

They understand that giving much soon can negatively effect our position & the deal they finally make. But they must also look at what knowledge they can provide to the opposing side to further the process & break impasses. There is no absolute answer to what knowledge you provide & when to offer it. A general guideline may be to share only to move the negotiation past deadlock & to keep it moving forward.

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