Welcome to the American Negotiation Institute's podcast, where we will teach you the skills you need to get more out of life.

And now your host, Kwame Christian.

Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of Negotiate Anything.

I'm Kwame Christian.

I'm a business lawyer by trade, but my passion lies in teaching you the keys of persuasion and conflict resolution.

My goal is to empower you to engage in these conversations confidently and effectively by not only sharing what works, but by also uncovering why these techniques work through revealing the psychological principles that lie behind persuasion.

This podcast is brought to you by the American Negotiation Institute, where we offer customized

conflict management and negotiation trainings for companies and one-on-one coaching for professionals

who want to communicate more confidently and persuasively. Dr. Tim Thane has spent the last 25 years in the field of marriage and family therapy,

applying solution-focused models to large organizations in the midst of transition,

as well as the families with struggling teens.

His innovative approaches to seeing and filling the gaps in leadership inside corporations

or in the continuum of care in adolescent treatment has marked him as a pioneer in his niche.

We invited Tim on the show to talk about how you can negotiate and manage conflict with teenagers.

Now, if you're not a parent or you don't deal with teens, you'll still get a lot of value out of this episode

if you just

replace the word teenager with irrational, emotional adult. I know you're going to get a lot out of

this episode. So without further ado, let's jump into the interview. Tim, thanks for joining us today.

Hey, thanks, Kwami. Good to be here. I'm looking forward to this. Yeah, I'm looking forward to this, too,

because this is going to be a fun one. Yeah, I think the topic is perfect for parents and teens.

I mean, it's happening every day in every home out there where there are kids and parents.

This is what's happening, especially after I read your definition of negotiation, I thought,

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