#10: John Lowry—Six Things You Need to Become a Great Negotiator
The StoryBrand Podcast
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
You're negotiating all the time without even knowing it. And that's a problem, because your success in life depends on how well you can negotiate. That's why in this week's episode we're teaching you the six things every great negotiator does to create more win/win outcomes in work and in life. Don also talks with Dr. John Lowry, President of the Lowry Group and instructor of our newest course at Business Made Simple University - Negotiation Made Simple. John shares what it's like inside a high stakes negotiation and his approach for achieving the desired outcome.
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| 0:00.0 | Just last week, I was speaking to the third largest concrete company in America, and the |
| 0:06.2 | gentleman walked up to me after I finished talking, and he said, you know, I'm 63 years |
| 0:10.5 | old. |
| 0:11.5 | I probably got three or four years left at the company, and I am dying to teach some |
| 0:16.1 | of these 36 year old plant managers everything I know about the concrete business. |
| 0:20.9 | In fact, everything I know about business, I wish that was a rare time that somebody |
| 0:25.5 | came up to me and said something like that, but it's actually fairly common. |
| 0:29.1 | I think what's missing in our culture and in some of our companies is the ability to |
| 0:33.8 | pass down knowledge from generation to generation to actually teach business to those coming |
| 0:39.4 | behind us. |
| 0:40.8 | The reality is we're not born teachers and we're not born with the list of things we need |
| 0:45.6 | to teach, but we do have a lot of experience. |
| 0:48.6 | That's where business made simple actually comes in. |
| 0:50.9 | We have a certified business coach program. |
| 0:53.5 | We already have hundreds of business made simple certified coaches who run coaching |
| 0:58.5 | businesses, both outside of companies. |
| 1:01.1 | That is, they are private contractors, and they just run their own coaching business, |
| 1:05.8 | but also inside of companies. |
| 1:07.7 | We actually call them teaching operators, they're people who teach within the same company |
| 1:12.7 | they work in, they teach business, and they teach our curriculum. |
| 1:16.9 | Our curriculum is robust, it teaches leadership, it teaches marketing, it teaches sales, it |
| 1:21.5 | teaches how to keep overhead down, it teaches how to manage cash flow, very practical knowledge |
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