Mapping out effective negotiation strategies part 3

11. Be persuasive.

12. Be thoroughly prepared and avoid common mistakes.

13. Use tactics that suit you and understand tactics used by others.

14. Know when to walk away as well as when and how to use third-party help.

15. Know how to evaluate your performance and target improvements.

After mastering these pointers

Action plan

Practice - Evaluate - Practice - Evaluate - Change? - Practice - Evaluate - Practice.

Mapping out effective negotiation strategies part 2

6. Communicate effectively, allowing for differing perceptions, biases, and prejudices.

7. Acknowledge contextual and cultural expectations.

8. Understand the dynamics of power.

9. Identify interest and goals.

10. Be assertive.

Mapping out effective negotiation strategies part 1

1. Practice Critical Thinking & Empathy

2. Study & Understand Key Principles from communication, psychological, sociological & conflict theories.

3. Know yourself

4. Understand the dynamics of conflict

5. Know major negotiation temperaments and styles and how to interact with each of them.

Life's Strategy Part 2

Step 5 – We would get an idea of our possible strengths and weakness. We have to again list it out, like for example, we are very good in dealing with people, in speaking, and our weakness may be poor in organizing. Let us use the data and fuel our strengths and consider outsourcing our weaknesses.
Step 6 – Developing the possible strategy. Having the data and the understanding, there could be only a few possible outcomes. If the external environment is doing well, in growth, adopt a plus strategy, example spend to upgrade you. If the external environment is stabilizing or maintaining, adopt an equal strategy, example to take chances to spend or focus on cutting back. If the external environment is not doing well, on a decline, adopt a minus strategy, example in a retrenchment stage consider downsizing your personal expenses. Just minus away the dessert, if you had originally planned to have an expensive meal.
Step 7 – Implement your strategy or take action. Confucius had a saying “ If you know something and don’t act upon it, is as though you know nothing. Take action reflecting the goals that you originally desired to achieve. If it does not do according to plan take action to control and alter your course of action.
Step 8 – Monitor and evaluate your progress. Is this what you truly want. If things do not go according to plan, what you should consider is to revisit you original goals and objectives and repeat step 1 to step 8. Before you know it, you would see a fantastic change in you and looking forward to a newer happier you. Say this mantra in the mirror 50 times, I Like Myself, I Like Myself, And I LIKE MYSELF.

Life's Strategy Part 1

lease bring out the CEO in you and take charge of life. We are all winners, as we beat hundreds and hundreds to come into the existence of a human body. Claim our birth right, our throne, as we step forth on this beautiful place called earth, whatever we wanted, we just had to cry, with our diapers or without our diapers, and we will be attended to. Let’s live life the way we should live it. Life is great, Life is beautiful. Now let me draw to the point, there are eight steps in strategically managing our life.
Step 1 – Identify or write down our goals, our dreams, our purpose in life, what we plan to achieve, how much, by when, doing what. Write it down. Don’t just think about it, ink about it. Like a pilot knows exactly his destination, we should also have clear, visual goals that we would want to achieve. Now, don’t get too carried away, write down smaller goals in life. Do baby steps, as every drop of water makes an ocean and a small leak can sink a great ship, let’s build this new and beautiful habit of writing it, reviewing it and changing it if necessary?
Step 2 – Analysing the external environment, we have to know what are we up against or what would be in our favour. Like for example, there might be more focus on the tourism or service sector, or falling interest rates would make it unattractive to keep money in the banks.
Step 3 – We would get an idea of the possible opportunities and threats out there for or against us. From the raw data of step 2, we could list down all the possible pros and cons. That would mean more possible job openings in the service sector, which we should equip ourselves, like for example the certified service professional course, and falling interest rates would make us think of whether to keep the money in the bank or money under our pillow or purchasing investments.
Step 4 – Analysing our resources or our internal environment. We have to list down our finances, what we own, such as assets, car, house, what we owe, such as credit cards, what we earn, our income and what we spend, our expenses, we should also list down the people that mean to us, our family, our friends, our academic qualification, our skill sets.

Decision Making Process

Ready, Aim, Aim, Aim, Aim,...., you have to Fire.
It is very important that we make decisions.

Decision making is about identifying a problem, generating alternatives, selecting a possible solution and evaluating the effectiveness of the choice.

Decision making process in 8 distinct steps. They are:
• Identify the problem
• Identify the decision criteria
• Assign weightage to decision criteria
• Develop possible solutions/alternatives
• Analyse each alternative
• Select the best alternative/possible solution
• Implement
• Monitor/Evaluate

Learn to let go

9 stages of letting go

See it
Say it
Sense it
Stay with it
Relax
Respire
Reconnect
Reframe
Presence

"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that use and persecute you." - Jesus of Nazareth

Some examples of planning

For example, planning involves:
• Determining the present position of the organisation
• Carrying out environmental scanning
• Formulating objectives/goals
• Identify specific activities to be carried out
• Set standards for each activity

Be Responsible

Responsibility refers to the obligation of an employee to complete all the assigned duties. The job activities are normally spelt out in a document called job description. Responsibility is made specific, by dividing the job activities. By assigning specific individuals for the completion of specific job activities, manager can hold an individual responsible.
Managers must make sure that no more than one person is held responsible for the completion of same activity.

The Plan that you can manage

Planning is about deciding organisation’s goals. Managers think and agree on specific goals and actions. Planning is also about identifying strategies for achieving the goals. Planning is considered as the primary function, because it provides the basis for all other three activities.

• Planning involves short-term and long-term.

• Planning provides directions for the activities of the organisation and coordinate the efforts of various departments.

• Planning is aimed at making an organisation work more efficiently towards the achievement of goals.

• For example, when a manager decides to increase the sales by 15 per cent during the next 12 months by introducing new range of products is involved in planning.

Empowering life pt 2

Re presentation of your reality

Change is constant

Respecting others' model of their world

Choice of your words would determine your reality

Using your own internal propulsion system to do the change

The meaning of the communication is the response that you get

Empowering life

Create powerful references in your life that could expand your world.

Replicate other people excellence

Model to produce results

Increase your financial vocabulary if you want more of the financial stuff

Similarity supports the long term and differences the short term

Values and Beliefs are shaped by the various experiences in our life

Inspiring Words

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
—Helen Keller

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
— Cherokee Saying

“Each choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us, it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrows of our past and the joy in our future.”
-Chelle Thompson

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.
— Sally Field

I can relate to that value.

There are seven values that are common to everyone - WeaK SPACE

Wealth - Ownership and worth

Knowledge - Learning and understanding

Sensuality - One's physical experience

Power - Control and recognition

Aesthetics - Beauty, balance, order and symmetry

Commitment - Being committed to something, having a mission or a cause, doing the "right" thing

Empathy - Feeling connected to other people

Purpose of Planning

Planning has many benefits. Planning forces managers to look at the future. Without planning, managers may be too occupied with the day-to-day operation and problems.

With planning managers anticipate future problems while pursuing the goals. This helps to reduce uncertainty.

Planning enables the organisation to direct its resources to make things happen

Planning encourages greater cooperation and coordination among the various groups in the organisation. This improves better utilization of organisational resources.

Planning reduces waste and eliminates duplication of activities.

Planning sets standards that can be used for purpose of controlling.

Living Life & Enjoying Everday

Life is a gift, appreciate and enjoy, and live in the now, it is so important. A smile will gain you ten more years of life, and ten more years worth living. Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on as making mistakes is about how we learn to do better. Remember, time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted as you are investing time in pleasure that brings you dividends of peace.

Word Power

Recently, I was reading this book and it was called "Word Power Made Easy" by Norman Lewis, and I realized that my vocabulary range was awful, my commitment to this blog is to share information that I pick up and am willing to share and grow

Words
1)A clandestine meeting - secret
2) to vacillate continually - swing back and forth in indecision
3) audacious attempt - bold
4) a prurient adolescent - sexually longing
5) an egregious error - outstandingly bad
6) a taciturn host - disinclined to conversations
7) shows perspicacity - mental keenness
8) a laconic reply - terse and meaningful
9) to malign his friend - slander
10) gregarious person - very sociable

RamituP

10 points to minimize your fear of public speaking

1)Overcome and accept your fear and make it work for you, use your nervous energy and turn it into enthusiasm, which will relax you.


2)Pranayam. Take a deep breath from your diaphragm, not your chest, feel the difference and relax. make it a habit to relax your body before speaking


3)Diction improves as you practice reading out loud.


4)Improve your tone and emotion, by reading children's books.


5)Try this, Look in front of a mirror and say "I like myself" 20 times and start speakingg to the mirror to improve your smile and body language.


6)Use key words on cue cards to keep you organized, know your content and never, never memorize a speech.


7)To improve your comfort level, speak as often as possible in public.


8)Use laughter and humor to relax, not only you, but your audience.


9)Use a video recorder to evaluate your skills.


10)PRACTICE…PRACTICE…PRACTICE.