Business Negotiation

Almost every aspect of business - and indeed human life - involves negotiating skills, whether you are striking a deal, organising a team working on a project, seeking a pay rise or a pay-off, or simply settling such important matters as who is going to do the shopping or the household chores.

This witty and intelligent guide looks at the theory and practice of negotiating and provides a wealth of illuminating insights into the skills and psychology of negotiation that can make all the difference to how successful you are.

The Elements of Negotiation provides listeners with an easy-to-follow step-by-step approach to becoming exceptional negotiators in both their professional and personal lives. Grounded in twenty-four years of extensive research, studying the habits and techniques of 35,000 individual negotiators, the 103 steps provide a detailed roadmap for negotiation excellence, covering preparation, execution, and post-negotiation analysis.

Drawing from more than 15 years of experience negotiating high-pressure situations in places like North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and Myanmar, Mickey Bergman will share with participants how they can incorporate negotiation tactics into their everyday lives to reduce stressful situations. From negotiating a job offer to how to approach arguments with your kids, this session will help participant align their negotiations style with their individual personality.

The billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. Started in the mid-2000s as a playful microblogging platform, Twitter quickly became a vital nexus of global politics, culture, and media—where the retweet button could instantly catapult any idea to hundreds of millions of screens around the world, unleashing raw collective emotion like nothing else before.

Nicknamed “the negotiator” as a child, Fotini Iconomopoulos has been honing her skills her entire life. As a sought-after expert, for more than a decade she’s been empowering Fortune 500 executives and their teams to achieve their objectives, guiding them through high-stakes scenarios in industries such as consumer packaged goods, retail, professional services, energy, telecommunications, tech, and finance. Now for the first time, Iconomopoulos shares her simple and innovative strategies, debunks common negotiation myths, and more.

Whether you are forced to negotiate a high-pressure business deal or confront an angry family member, within the chapters of this book you will learn how to manage your emotions and quickly process information during stressful situations. You will learn how to effectively read your counterparts and how to decipher their words and body language. This book will properly prepare you for conflict and how to effectively use these skills in multiple real-world situations.

Master negotiator Herb Cohen has been successfully negotiating everything from insurance claims to hostage releases to his own son's hair length and hundreds of other matters for over five decades. Ever since coining the term win-win in 1963, he has been teaching people the world over how to get what they want in any situation. In clear, accessible steps, he reveals how anyone can use the three crucial variables of power, time, and information to always reach a win-win negotiation.

Just ten years ago, Sam Taggart was beating the streets as a door-to-door salesman selling solar and alarm systems, getting thousands of doors slammed in his face–and worse–every day. Now, Sam is the founder and CEO of D2D Experts, a seven-figure sales empire that offers training to an active userbase of 30,000 members. Eat What You Kill is the key to mastering the art of sales–and it all starts with a simple mindset shift.

From CEOs communicating with board members to managers negotiating salary increases and entrepreneurs looking to raise capital, it's impossible to overstate the role of persuasion in making your personal and professional goals a reality. The ability to convince others—respectfully and effectively—is one of the most important skills you can master, whatever your profession. In Convince Me, you'll find eye-opening, behind-the-scenes details revealing how some of the best in the business ply their trade.

In today's world, negotiation is a key part of business. The ability to negotiate successfully can save and earn you money. It's that simple! In this audiobook, John discusses tactics and powers used at the negotiation table, so that you can walk away victorious.

Difficult Conversations teaches you how to handle even the toughest conversations more effectively and with less anxiety. Based on 15 years of work at Harvard Negotiation Project and consultations with thousands of people, the authors answer the question: When people confront the conversations they dread the most, what works? Difficult Conversations walks you through a proven, concrete, step-by-step approach for understanding and conducting tough conversations.

Mark Hunter’s own start in sales was inauspicious, to say the least. He was fired from his first two stints before he began to learn the lessons that he covers in A Mind for Sales. He discovered that sales can be incredibly rewarding, such as when your customers call you for advice, thanking you for improving their business, and letting you know they just referred you to colleagues. The difference is simply developing mindset and momentum habits.

This field guide is a flexible framework designed for B2B salespeople like you. Each chapter contains a secret and a challenge. Once understood, these secrets will give you insider knowledge to win more deals and influence critical stakeholders. And if you complete every challenge, you’ll be ready to crush your next negotiation.

How do I stand out? How do I become irreplaceable? With a crowded workforce, an unstable job landscape, and the rise of AI, these questions are the ones that everyone either is or should be asking. William Vanderbloemen has asked these questions over the past 15 years while running one of the world’s top executive search firms. Through extensive research of over 30,000 top leaders and proprietary data, Vanderbloemen has identified the 12 habits that the best of the best have in common. Traits such as authenticity, responsiveness, agility, and the ability to problem solve, among others.

In Leadershift, John C. Maxwell helps listeners make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth. He does this by sharing the 11 shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Each shift changed his trajectory and set him up for new and exciting achievements, strengthening and sustaining his leadership abilities and making him the admired leadership expert he is today.

In Getting Past No, William Ury of Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and author of Possible, offers a proven breakthrough strategy for turning adversaries into negotiating partners.

Star of the hit show Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, Josh Flagg shares his secrets to mastering any negotiation in any industry and at any level.

This two-book bundle includes Communication Skills: How to Master the Art of Negotiations and Communication Skills: How to Master the Art of Sales Pitches, so you can understand how to use master and use your negotiation skills to make the perfect sales pitch.

Find out how to successfully resolve your most emotionally charged conflicts. In this landmark book, world-renowned Harvard negotiation expert Daniel Shapiro presents a groundbreaking, practical method to reconcile your most contentious relationships and untangle your toughest conflicts.

The first ever playbook for B2B salespeople on how to win clients and customers who are already being serviced by your competition, from the author of The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need and The Lost Art of Closing. Your competitors may be tough, but with the strategies you'll discover in this audiobook, you'll soon be eating their lunch.