Persuasive Speech Idea Checklist

A persuasive speech idea has to state a fact, value, or policy in order to get your listeners change their views or to convince them to act or to agree with your opinion and solutions. This checklist will help you turning public speaking ideas into speech topics to persuade and not just to inform.

Negotiation, Integrity and Trickery

In any negotiation it is important to establish a sense of integrity so that the other party knows that they can trust you with whatever negotiation is rendered. All too often people who were involved in negotiation are untrustworthy and use trickery early on in order to get concessions from the other party.

Negotiating Water Rights in Water Courts

One of the most critical things in life that one may have to negotiate is water rights in a water court. Failure to properly negotiate water rights can cause future catastrophic issues for one's family or the future of their family businesses, lifestyles or endeavors.

Negotiating with Unions to Take Pay Severance Packages

Any high-ranking corporate top executive will tell you that negotiating with the unions is no easy matter and if it is not done correctly it causes a rift between management and labor and can disrupt the company for years to come. In this case, it is usually the management that must go, as the union generally stays intact because without labor you cannot run your business.

Business Negotiation Using Power and Influence: How Do You Exercise Your Power in Negotiations?

Influence and power are basic elements in all negotiations. By simply exploring and understanding the power you have, or you can obtain, you can radically change the influence that you have and negotiate a potential failure into a successful outcome.

Conflict: Unavoidable and Potentially Positive (Part 1 of 4)

Effective conflict intervention can help transform a conflict situation into an opportunity for change, growth and development of creative solutions to an organization's most difficult problems.

How to Read the Body Language of Buyers And Sellers

Body language or nonverbal communication is just as important as the words that are being spoken in a conversation, particularly during a sales presentation or conference.

On Walking the Talk

Employees are more likely to learn from what you do & not from what you say. Many job performance problems could be headed off by more attention from management. Treat employees with same respect as you treat guests & involve them in decision-making process. Make sure employees understand their job description & reinforce it by providing training.

The Art Of Negotiations In About 5 Minutes

This super fast crash course on negotiations lays out ten super brief elements of negotiating with ten super fast explanations. You don't need to read a bunch of dribble, get it hard and fast right here!

Silence and Negotiation

One of the most powerful tools in a negotiator's toolbox is silence: absolute, blank-faced, quiet. It can be used when confronted with a tough situation, when given news that is too good to be true, or when you just don’t want to say anything stupid.

How To Ask For A Raise: 9 Powerful Tips

So you want to ask for a raise. You are not the only one. Most employees feel they deserve a salary raise. What are the secrets that will make you stand out from the crowd and get the raise? I've got 9 powerful tips for you. Implement the following strategies with faith and vision and you will succeed. Keep reading.

Discover Exactly What Your Sales Prospect Wants in the Negotiation Process

Negotiation in sales can be a tricky process when salespeople don’t know the true needs of their prospects. But the most successful sales and business professionals know how to ask questions that determine what their prospective clients really want. They use questions to open up communications and encourage prospects to share information.

How to Overcome the Top Ten Negotiating Tactics

Everyone uses negotiation tactics to get what they want, whether they’re haggling over the price of an item in a garage sale or discussing potential salary with a future employer. Most of the time, when you enter a negotiating situation you can expect the other party to use certain maneuvers to tip the scales in their favor. For example, you can expect a potential employer to offer you less money than they are actually willing to pay to give themselves negotiating room. And a buyer will usually act surprised at your stated price, no matter how reasonable it may be, to pressure you into lowering it.

How to Negotiate Like A Pro In Long-term Negotiations

Ever notice that negotiations usually go much better when there is a history of trust from previous successful negotiations? That is no accident. The good will that is built up over the years allows the other party to accept your positions at face value. However those negotiations can get flat and you might want to try something new as well. Here are some tips to build on that long term relationships during negotiations.

Spitting In Your Soup

During the 1950's Korean Conflict, six American GI's were assigned to a housing unit. Fighting had calmed down, so they found themselves living in close quarters with extra time on their hands.