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, everyone, and welcome to our very first podcast. I'm really excited to get started with

all of you. So let's go ahead and start by talking about the format of the podcast, do a quick

introduction of myself and talk about my goals for this podcast.

So my name is Kwame Christian, and I'm a business lawyer, and I love negotiating and learning more

about dispute resolution. Not surprisingly, then, the purpose of this podcast is to teach you

the essentials of negotiation and dispute resolution. This podcast will

feature exciting personalities from a variety of backgrounds, each talking about their personal

experiences with negotiation and dispute resolution. We'll follow a pretty basic structure,

where you get to hear a little bit about their professional journey and who they are, and then

we'll move into story time, where we get to hear the little bit about their professional journey and who they are, and then we'll move into story time where we get to hear the best and worst of their negotiating

experiences. And then we'll finish up with their top three keys to success in dispute resolution

and negotiation. The length of the show will be about half an hour, because I think that's a good

amount of time for us to get deep

into the material without going too long and getting on the verge of being boring or repetitive.

My favorite part about this is that I'm going to be learning alongside of you because the people

that I'm going to bring in are going to have expertise in different realms.

This will give us a great opportunity to see the differences and

similarities of various negotiation and dispute resolution tactics in different contexts.

So let's kick this off with a question. When was the last time you had a negotiation? So

oftentimes when I ask this question, people think back to their salary negotiations, or maybe a time

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