597: How to Turn No Into Yes: Powerful Negotiation Questions with Alex Carter
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Columbia law professor Alex Carter shares why it pays to ask for more, both at work and in life.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The 4 questions that will help you negotiate better
2) How to boost your confidence going into a negotiation
3) How to increase your chances of getting a yes from your boss
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— ABOUT ALEX —
Alex Carter is Director of the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School, where she is also an award-winning professor, and a world-renowned negotiation trainer for the United Nations. She also serves as Executive Director of Stand Up Girls, helping tween girls develop relationships for greater self-esteem and resilience. She has appeared on CBS This Morning, MSNBC’s LIVE Weekend and Hardball, Marketplace, and in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with her husband and daughter.
• Book: Ask for More: 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything
• Instagram: @alexandrabcarter
• LinkedIn: Alexandra Carter
• Twitter: @alexbcarter
• Website: AlexCarterAsks.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
• Book: The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table by Minda Harts
• Book: The Truth About Negotiations by Leigh Thompson
• Past episode: 222: The Quickest Ways to Earn an Extra Half Million Over Your Career with Rich Jones and Marcus Garrett
• Past episode: 341: Decoding Body Language with ex-FBI Special Agent Joe Navarro
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.4 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here |
| 0:21.0 | for episode 597 with Alex Carter. |
| 0:23.4 | Alex has some masterful wisdom that can help you get more of what you want in any |
| 0:29.9 | negotiation and problems our perspectives that negotiations are bigger than when you're buying a house |
| 0:35.3 | or getting a job offer, but all kinds of scenarios. |
| 0:38.0 | So you'll learn one, the four questions that help you negotiate better. |
| 0:42.0 | Two, how to boost your confidence going into a negotiation. |
| 0:45.0 | And three, how to increase your chances of getting a yes from your boss. |
| 0:49.0 | So if you want to check out the showouts or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced |
| 0:53.4 | please visit awesome at your job.com slash EP 597 that's EP 597 and you can see those |
| 1:01.7 | resources there and while you're checking out resources at |
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| 1:07.7 | When you're on it you can get a summary email of all the wisdom that Alex shared in |
| 1:12.4 | about a three minute read as well as access to the |
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| 1:20.6 | crazy it's called the gold nuggets at awesome at your job |
| 1:23.3 | dot com now here's Alex's story Alex Carter is the director of the mediation clinic |
| 1:28.1 | at Columbia Law School where she's also an award-winning professor and a world-renowned |
| 1:31.8 | negotiation trainer for the United Nations. |
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