What's your strategy for sharing negotiation best practices?

1 Identify your best practices

Before you can share your negotiation best practices, you need to identify them. What are the key principles, techniques, and tools that you use to prepare, execute, and evaluate your negotiations? How do you measure your negotiation performance and outcomes? How do you adapt to different situations, styles, and personalities? Write down your best practices and organize them into categories, such as planning, communication, persuasion, problem-solving, and closing.

2 Choose your audience and format

Once you have your best practices, you need to decide who you want to share them with and how. Depending on your goals and context, you may want to target different audiences, such as your team, your organization, your network, or your clients. You also need to choose the most suitable format for your message, such as a blog post, a webinar, a podcast, a newsletter, or a workshop. Consider the preferences, needs, and expectations of your audience and the best way to convey your insights and value.

3 Provide examples and stories

One of the most effective ways to share your negotiation best practices is to provide examples and stories that illustrate them. Examples and stories can help you demonstrate your expertise, credibility, and results. They can also make your best practices more memorable, engaging, and relatable. When you share examples and stories, make sure they are relevant, specific, and clear. Use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) to structure your stories and highlight your best practices.

4 Invite feedback and questions

Another important strategy for sharing your negotiation best practices is to invite feedback and questions from your audience. Feedback and questions can help you improve your best practices, learn from other perspectives, and build rapport and trust. They can also spark discussions and debates that can enrich your knowledge and skills. When you invite feedback and questions, be open, respectful, and curious. Listen actively, acknowledge different opinions, and provide constructive responses.

5 Collaborate and learn from others

Finally, sharing your negotiation best practices is not a one-way street. You can also collaborate and learn from others who have their own best practices and experiences. Collaboration and learning can help you expand your network, discover new ideas, and enhance your negotiation performance. You can collaborate and learn from others by joining or creating communities of practice, mentoring or coaching others, participating in peer reviews or simulations, or attending events or courses.

6 Update and refine your best practices

Sharing your negotiation best practices is an ongoing process that requires constant updating and refining. As you share your best practices, you may encounter new challenges, opportunities, and feedback that can affect your negotiation approach and results. You may also discover new trends, research, and best practices that can improve your negotiation skills and knowledge. To keep your best practices relevant and effective, you need to review them regularly, test them in different scenarios, and incorporate new learnings and feedback.

7 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?