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Centre Européen de la Négociation Conference – The mental preparation of the negotiator
Mental preparation… applied to negotiation performance Watch a video on the difference between an athlete and a champion
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Why did 10 billion in concessions not stop the yellow waistcoats crisis?
Faced with an unprecedented movement, President Macron and his government, disoriented and under pressure to act, finally gave in on the first demands on 10 December: abandonment of the fuel tax, cancellation of the rise in the CSG, and so on.
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Why can listening sometimes lead to a dialogue of the deaf?
For the past three months, it’s been hard for anyone to escape the news surrounding the “yellow waistcoats” movement. Just like in a play, we are almost at Act XIV and it looks like it will last until the European elections.
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What you won’t read in How to negotiate successfully
When I read Getting to yes for the first time in 1981, I immediately realised that what I was holding in my hand was a real methodological breakthrough that would go on to become a milestone. In fact, Fisher and Ury’s book revolutionised the art of negotiation both theoretically and practically. Three things struck me…
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Compromise or creative arrangement?
Interview with Michel Ghazal by Revue Négociations “The very essence of compromise: a situation that satisfies no one, but gives everyone the impression of knowing that the others were just as badly off as they were”. Trevanian in Shibumi
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Why do most negotiations descend into a war of positions?
By Michel Ghazal Unfortunately, trench warfare is the daily lot of many negotiations. Thanks to the Mutual Gains Strategy, negotiators have concrete tools at their disposal to avoid getting into the trenches and to help their counterparts get out of them.
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Why should we avoid hasty judgements?
By Michel Ghazal The more certain we are of our facts, the more the matter will seem to us to be settled, and the more difficult it will be for us to agree to momentarily put our judgement on hold and defer it. To achieve this, we need to negotiate with that inner voice that…
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The importance of setting an objective in your negotiations
By Michel Ghazal While it’s essential to set a target for your negotiations, are you sure you can do so without risking deadlock?
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Are you a victim of decision-making bias in negotiation?
By Nicole Spitaleri, Consultant-coach How are our choices, which we think are free, conditioned and biased? How can the functioning of the two hemispheres of our brain be unbalanced and unknowingly impact the way we negotiate?
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Conference on “Negotiation in all its forms”.
On 23 January, around fifty people from ANDRH (Montparnasse and Lafayette groups) attended a conference given by Michel Ghazal on the subject of “Negotiation in all its forms”.
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