Negotiation Strategies: Tips for Establishing Connection and Optimizing Results Series: Part 6 We all negotiate, every day. It runs the gamut from the boardroom to the bedroom and everywhere in between. People try to win over their counterpart with reasoned arguments, pithy anecdotes, or just plain emotion. Career negotiators feel they do it fairly well, making fewer … [Read more...] about Beware the “Quadrigoof”: Avoiding Four Common Mistakes in Negotiations
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Understanding and Using Body Language to Improve Negotiations
“Let Me Hear Your Body Talk…”1 Negotiation Strategies: Tips for Establishing Connection and Optimizing Results Series: Part 5 See if you recognize this scenario: you're in a meeting trying to convince the other side to take your position. But something’s not right. You don't feel comfortable. The mood in the room is guarded and tense. You really don't know why: The sun is … [Read more...] about Understanding and Using Body Language to Improve Negotiations
From the Brink: Tips to Revive A Stalled Mediation
Negotiation Strategies: Tips for Establishing Connection and Optimizing Results Series: Part 4 Mediation is generally a useful way to slow negotiating parties down and open their minds to optional pathways to an acceptable settlement. Accompanied by a willing counterparty and qualified, experienced mediator, you can often move immovable issues, explore “win-win” propositions, … [Read more...] about From the Brink: Tips to Revive A Stalled Mediation
Drop Anchor or Anchors Aweigh? Making the First Offer In Negotiations
Negotiation Strategies: Tips for Establishing Connection and Optimizing Results Series: Part 3 Years ago, my wife and I took a trip to Mexico. The worker in me was ready to kick back and put down a tequila or two. But my inner negotiator was anxious to test his skills at a Mexican mercado (market). Who would win the test of wills between the novice American buyer and savvy … [Read more...] about Drop Anchor or Anchors Aweigh? Making the First Offer In Negotiations
Prepare, Prepare, and Also, Prepare.
Negotiation Strategies: Tips for Establishing Connection and Optimizing Results Series: Part 2 We all know the scenario: You’ve been chasing your counterparty for weeks, trying to get either payment, a meeting, or a substantive response. On your end, you reviewed the file and calculated how much you want and, perhaps, how much you might settle for, based upon YOUR analysis … [Read more...] about Prepare, Prepare, and Also, Prepare.
Getting to Yes: Where It All Began
Series: Negotiation Strategies: Tips for Establishing Connection and Optimizing Results We all do it every day: with our spouses and significant others, with our children, co-workers and counterparties, with people getting on and off of an elevator, and even while jockeying with other cars in traffic. The “it” is negotiation: exchanging verbal or non-verbal messages with a … [Read more...] about Getting to Yes: Where It All Began
Top 10 Issues for Effective Reservations of Rights Letters
The Keynote Speaker of the 2021 Summer Membership Meeting was Randy Maniloff. Randy is counsel at White and Williams LLP and the lawyer behind the well-known monthly newsletter “Coverage Opinions.” He presented on the Top 10 Issues for Effective Reservations of Rights Letters. Randy started the seminar highlighting the fact that insurance companies don’t provide enough … [Read more...] about Top 10 Issues for Effective Reservations of Rights Letters
Mysteries Underlying Black Lung Liabilities
Estimating future liabilities for even the most basic line of business involves in-depth analysis of data, expert knowledge of modeling, and professional application of assumptions. Black lung liabilities take reserving to an entirely different level. Black lung compensation is rooted in a complex regulatory and legislative history. The disease itself—pneumoconiosis—involves … [Read more...] about Mysteries Underlying Black Lung Liabilities
