It is not always simple to win a negotiation, particularly when culture is involved. People sometimes have preconceived notions about how meetings will be run and what can and cannot be said before they ever begin. These presumptions are not always true while negotiating in a multi-cultural situation. In order to ensure that your message is fully understood by the other side, it is important to have a solid awareness of their culture.
Is it straightforward to win a negotiation?
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It is not an easy task to negotiate. Sometimes,you would need to renegotiate and adjust terms.
I totally agree with you, it's not easy to win negotiations, let alone cross-cultural or cross-country negotiations. As you said, there is a possibility of misunderstanding if we don't understand the other person's culture well.
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I do believe that it is not easy to negotiate. But, it is easier for the experts to do this. I am sure we can learn the craft of doing so, so that we can able to close deals.
The reason why it is called a negotiation is because you have to consider a lot of things and the other party is also going to cost a lot of things before you both will come to a mutual ground and agreement. It's never a one way traffic talk.
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I agree with you. It is also like having a two-way streets for communication between them and the businesses. Negotiating is a part of business that it cannot be brushed off the idea.
Negotiation is never an easy task. Each party in the negotiation has his/her own bottom line. Inter-cultural negotiation is definitely even more challenging. One should be well prepared before entering into a negotiation.
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I do agree that preparedness is the best course of action to deal with different kinds of negotiation in business. Once you had everything, then you are bound to make a great transaction with a client.
Every negotiation has it's twist and turns. You cannot have a very straight forward negotiation process, except the other party has no interest in the negotiation.
You are right! For you to have your way in a negotiation, the other parties should agree with your decision.
Well, I think that there are many people who could be convinced quite easily and this is why negotiating things related to business might be much easier when it comes to dealing with them.
Winning a negotiation can never be straight forward, if it is straight forward, them everyone would be winning negotiation, there are some technicalities involved in it, one needs to understand some basic human psychology to be able to successfully win a negotiation.
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If I am a psychic, I might be able to read people's minds. In fact, I can do this at random. I need to polish this gift that I am having right now.
It is not really easy to win in a business negotiation because it takes a lot of things and a lot of factors have to be put into consideration before this could be achieved.
It is not effective to be straightforward in negotiating. It needs ways to capture the interest of the other party. You need to make friendship first and make some funny talks before the negotiation begins. That way relaxes the feelings of both parties.
It's not straightforward winning a negotiation ,it might be an herculean task at times, one way to try winning a negotiation is inventing options for mutual gain , let your opposition see reasons to go with your offer by explaining to them what they stand to gain from your offer and not being focused on what you stand to gain alone.
