Tag Archives: negotiator ego

Separating people from issues – is this desirable?

One of the standard maxims for good negotiations is to avoid getting personal. As always – looking for a simple answer to a complex questions is likely to cause more harm than good. Separating the … Continue reading

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Perils of ambitious goals

Attendees of our highly successful High Impact Fee Negotiation programme and readers of High Impact Fee Negotiation and Management for Professionals as well as other negotiation text books will know how important setting ambitious goals … Continue reading

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Beating the odds – what professionals can do to beat the odds stacked against them on fees

Most professionals will admit to being relatively weak managing fees, i.e. setting the price for a piece of work, getting this agreed with the clients and keeping the profit margin implicitly agreed during the course … Continue reading

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How negotiators make their negotiations more difficult (needlessly)

It should come as no surprise that many professionals find fee negotiation one of the most trying and difficult challenges of their work. It may however come as a major surprise (especially to the very … Continue reading

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