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.

Hi, Kwami, nice to see you. Good to see you too. I'm glad you're able to make it today. I have this awesome opportunity that I think will be perfect for you. I know this is

going to be perfect for you. Oh, tell me what is it? Cool. Okay, so I'm on the board of the National

Koala Bear Society and we have this opening. And as you know, this is the world's largest koala bear conservation society. And this is a really prestigious position within the environmental community. And so they said, hey, we have this one position that's opening up

on the board. And if anybody knows somebody, give recommendations. And I raised my head, I told

them, listen, I don't want anybody else taking this position. I know the person. I'll be back

with you in three days. And she'll say yes, I guarantee it. So here it is.

Kwame, what an incredible honor. I'm so

thrilled that you thought of me. Tell me, what is the time commitment for this board position?

Time commitment is not bad at all. We meet once a month, even though we're based in D.C., you can just

call in and then one time during the summer you require that everybody comes in

for a joint meeting but that's it once a month over the over the phone you know what i am so

flattered that you thought of me i am going to have to decline this opportunity i go offline for

the summer with my family and i wouldn't be able to make that. And if I can't be

100% in, I would prefer to say no. But I can give you a couple names of people that would probably

be thrilled to be considered. Well, how about this? I'm really close with the president. What I could

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