The concept I thought was interesting would be negotiating effectively in the small group text. Negotiating is an daily thing everyone does in their life when encountering anyone. There are five strategies for negotiating;
1. To listen to the opposing side and listen to the reasons and understanding before you can argue your side first. So this means that you will find out there reasons and allowing you to understand the circumstances.
2. You must be introspective. This means you shouldn’t put words in people’s mouth and expect that they are willing to for instance covering a shift at work or doing a part in a project. You cannot just assume they will be okay with it, just let then speak first before assuming.
3. Ask fact-finding questions and try to uncover the who, what, when, where, and why of the opposing sides premises. This means that you should know the extent at which they are negotiating as well, so that when your negotiating your side it would be more successful.
4. You must communicate with an open mind. This means you must be considerate of the other opposing sides argument otherwise the negotiating would come to a stop and would not continue. You would lose the negotiation if you do not take everything into consideration.
5. You must keep your emotions in check. This means try to not show your anger, sadness, and frustration because this would affect the way you speak and this would just cause strain in the situation causing the opposing side to withdraw from the negotiation.
These five strategies are necessary in negotiating effectively.
This was a very informative blog to read because I didn't choose this as my topic to write about. Negotiating could be difficult at times, but reading this blog really brings up points that I never really considered before. I think keeping your emotions in check while negotiating is the most thing to do especially if the situation being negotiated is a very meaningful and the party just won't budge and is just plain stubborn. But I can see how strategies 1- 4 are relevant especially in organizational communication, which was the topic I wrote about.
ReplyDeleteWow, your post is pretty interesting. I remember I learned about active listening and the 5 steps were similar to the five strategies. I agree with the first one, instead of assuming and judging the other side, we must put that aside and listen to their side in order to understand the circumstances. I also agree with number two, I have a tendency to putting words in people mouth before they can speak because I tend to be a motor mouth, but I nowadays, I try to be introspective. For number three, I sometimes try not to ask who when there’s a problem because I don’t find is too necessary. Number four, I really agree with being open minded because it’s hard to communicate with someone who is narrow minded. I also agree with number five because emotions do affect the way you speak.
ReplyDeleteOverall, good job on explaining about the five strategies.