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Hello, my friends, and welcome to our practice session.

In our practice sessions, we invite our featured guests to show off their negotiation and conflict resolution skills in a realistic scenario.

In this session, I want you to pay attention to what our guest does and not to what I do, because while they are trying to show off their skills and teach you, I'm trying

to frustrate their efforts in different ways through things like aggression, annoyance,

emotionality, or awkwardness. And then after the practice session, we debrief and talk about

what worked, what didn't work, and what you can use in your next difficult conversation.

Welcome everybody to our sparring session. This is going to be a fun one. Again, our guest is

Hamilton Chan, and he will get us started by outlining the situation, and then we'll jump into it.

Awesome. Well, Kwame is great to be back, and thank you so much again for having me. I object

to calling it a sparring session, because I think this is just going to be a getting to you so much again for having me. I object to calling it a

sparm session because I think this is just going to be a getting to know you session. But yeah,

let's start off with fictitious scenario. We'll say that I am the CEO of a company called

Smart Mugs. Smart Mugs makes a coffee warmer that basically will allow you to place a mug on an intelligent hot

plates and it will keep that mug at the same temperature throughout a four-hour period.

And what's great about this is it makes the coffee taste better and please as customers.

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