311: Negotiation Tactics for Results, with Kwame Christian
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Kwame Christian: Negotiate Anything
Kwame Christian is a business lawyer and the Director of the American Negotiation Institute. His TEDx Talk, Finding Confidence in Conflict, was the most popular TED Talk on the topic of conflict of 2017.
Today, he’s working extensively with procurement departments within companies to help them make better deals. Kwame hosts the top negotiation podcast, Negotiate Anything and is the author of the book Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life*.
Questions
- Margaret asked about how to respond to people when they are asking for a pay raise.
- Kim asked about how to encourage an employee to leave the company.
- Vivian asked about how to handle a situation where an employee isn’t performing but who has a close relationship with a more senior leader.
- Roger asked what wisdom we’d give to leaders on handling tough negotiation situations.
Resources Mentioned
- Download Kwame’s Free Guide
- Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life* by Kwame Christian
- Getting to Yes* by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury
- Five Steps to Hold People Accountable with Jonathan Raymond (episode 306)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People* by Dale Carnegie
Related Episodes
- How to Listen When Someone Is Venting, with Mark Goulston (episode 91)
- Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, with Chris Voss (episode 262)
- How to Benefit From Conflict, with Susan Gerke (episode 263)
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| 0:00.0 | It's one thing to proactively avoid tough situations. It's another to maneuver when we're in the midst of them. |
| 0:07.0 | On this episode, negotiation tactics that will help in some of the toughest situations facing our listening community. |
| 0:14.0 | This is coaching for leaders episode 311. |
| 0:18.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:23.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:29.0 | This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made and |
| 0:36.8 | this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader. |
| 0:43.8 | And I'm so glad that you're tuning in today. |
| 0:46.2 | If this is your first time listening, welcome. |
| 0:48.5 | I know today's conversation is going to be helpful to you |
| 0:50.9 | because one of the things that we all need to navigate in our lives in not only |
| 0:58.1 | our professional lives but our personal lives is how to negotiate well how to persuade I've |
| 1:02.0 | actually had several times in the last four to |
| 1:04.8 | five days both professionally and personally when I've come into situations where |
| 1:08.4 | one party wanted something one party wanted the other and I needed to be a part of navigating that and either figuring |
| 1:15.8 | that out for myself or helping other people figure that out and that is really the daily |
| 1:19.9 | work of leaders and that's why when I met today's guest several months ago |
| 1:25.8 | I knew he would be really helpful to many of us around navigating the daily |
| 1:31.4 | challenges of negotiation that many of us experiences leaders, but also not |
| 1:36.9 | only just the how-to, but to actually get some tactical advice for some of the very things that our communities |
| 1:44.2 | dealing with right now and we put out a call for questions around handling |
| 1:47.6 | tough situations, handling negotiations, handling even difficult conversations |
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