Negotiations Ninja Podcast

This week we're focusing on entrepreneurial negotiation and why entrepreneurs should care about developing negotiation skills. Author, speaker and teacher Samuel Dinnar joins us to discuss the eight common mistakes entrepreneurs make when they focus on scale and growth while neglecting developing their negotiation skills. How can entrepreneurs manage the relationships that determine their business...

We're getting political at Negotiations Ninja as Dr. Joshua Weiss, a conflict resolution expert and Senior Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Project joins us. Dr. Weiss talks about the current situation in Washington and tensions between Democrats and Republicans. Is it really as messy as it seems from the outside? What are some tactics both parties can employ to diffuse a potential political war...

Matt Dixon, Chief Product & Research Officer at Tethr and noted business writer and speaker, returns to the Negotiations Ninja podcast to discuss the science of negotiation - specifically artificial intelligence. How does artificial intelligence impact negotiations, specifically in sales and customer service and the conversational jobs that require human interaction? Can artificial intelligence ta...

Annie Duke, a World Series of Poker champion turned business consultant talks about decision quality and improving it by embracing uncertainty. By understanding what drives your decision making framework and shifting our thinking from a need for certainty to a goal of accurately assessing what you know (and what you don't) you'll be less vulnerable to reactive emotions, biases, and destructive hab...

Larry Susskind, MIT professor and co-founder of the Program on Negotiation joins us to talk about his book Good for You, Great for Me. We're talking about how to negotiate against the 900-pound gorilla; the organization that seemingly has all the leverage in negotiations because of its size. Larry discusses the "the trading zone"— the space where you can create deals that are "good for them but gr...

Procurement professionals are seeing dramatic shifts in the workforce as large numbers of Baby Boomers retire. Young professionals are wondering how to handle the big changes their organizations are going through while picking up the slack. Roy Anderson shares his wealth of experience on what it takes to hit the ground running and start executing immediately upon being hired. ALL SHOW NOTES AND LI...

Ever wondered about the ins and outs and the dos and don'ts on negotiating over text, email and social media? Mark Lowther, a negotiation and communication coach who has worked with police forces in crisis and hostage negotiations joins us. Mark's one of the first people to complete a hostage negotiation over social media and shares his tips and advice about managing negotiations in the new digita...

Happy New Year Negotiations Ninja listeners! I'm excited to share updates and some changes you'll see in 2019. But first, you can't look forward to 2019 without reflecting on the year that was 2018. I'm presenting the list of our top five most downloaded podcasts list with highlights and insights from our amazing guests. So sit back and relax as we recap what we've been through, where we're going,...

Merry Christmas from Negotiations Ninja Podcast.   Spend time with the people that you love the most.   ALL SHOW NOTES AND LINKS AT: negotiations.ninja/podcast

Don't you wish you knew how to get better performance out of your employees? If only there was a way to negotiate with them to get better performance out of them!   Tim Cronin, Chief Procurement Officer at Florida Blue, is on the show today to talk about just that. In this fascinating discussion we talked about how to have those tough employee discussion, the concept of radical candor, and alignin...

How can we create situations to elicit more information from someone where they don't even realize they're giving away that information? For the longest time, that was Jack Schafer's job at the FBI as a behavioral analyst.   Through years of experience turning foreign agents into informants he was able to build up a very unique skill set. Through the use of certain behavioral techniques and cues,...

Pat Tinney is on the show to talk about the new revised edition of his great book, Unlocking Yes. Pat's book is very much like a field guide for sales people on how to negotiate.   Pat and I get into an in-depth discussion about what it takes to negotiate good deals as a sales person, the value of being able to tell a story, smartly withdrawing from deals that just don't feel right and what you ne...

Jay Sklar is on the Negotiations Ninja Podcast to discuss how procurement people can become a trusted advisor to our internal business stakeholders.   We hear this term so much, but so many of us have a different idea about what it is and what it takes to become the trusted advisors that our internal business stakeholders so desperately need us to be. Jay had great strategies on what to do to beco...

Jeanette Nyden, a commercial contract coach, is on the Negotiations Ninja podcast to discuss how to negotiate performance based contracts. We discussed what performance based contracts are, why they're important, what to think about when putting together performance based contracts and some of the penalties and rewards systems that can be put in place.   We really only scratched the surface of the...

Harrison Smith, Acting Chief Procurement Officer at the IRS, is on the Negotiations Ninja Podcast to talk about how procurement and negotiation works in the government. We got into a very interesting discussion on the difference between public and private procurement. I've got to tell you that it truly opened my eyes on what goes on in the government procurement world.   The amount of pressure tha...

Wies Bratby, Chief Enthusiasm Officer at Women in Negotiation, is on the show today to talk about how women can develop confidence in negotiation and change their mindset.   Wies teaches how women can empower themselves to negotiate raises, promotions, better benefits for themselves. Ultimately it all comes down to the development of confidence. As I learned, women view negotiating for themselves...

Susan Ibitz, the human behavior hacker, is on the show. Some people hack computer systems, she hacks human behavior. Susan runs a company called the Human Behavior Lab where she and her team specialize in face reading, statement analysis, body language, and micro-expressions.  In this episode we jump into these 4 areas with both feet and discuss how understanding each of these four areas can make...

I've had a stack of people reach out to me and ask how to negotiate a raise or a new salary. The raise/salary negotiation is likely the most foreboding negotiation most people ever have to go through. And it's something that almost everyone will have to face.  So in this episode of Negotiations Ninja, I'll be laying out, step-by-step, exactly how to negotiate a raise or new salary. It's not compli...

Joe Navarro has spent a lifetime observing others. He spent 25 years as a Special Agent for the FBI, conducting and supervising interrogations of spies and other dangerous criminals, honing his mastery of nonverbal communication.  After retiring from the bureau, he has become a renowned public speaker and consultant, an internationally bestselling author, and a sought-after TV commentator. Now, a...

Many people in procurement are data-driven, analytical, and tend to be introverted. So how do you generate discussion in a negotiation so that the other party begins to talk about their business, opportunities, needs, and their wants? In this episode of Negotiations Ninja, I'll walk you through a formulaic process to guide the conversation to get what you need (and assess what the other party need...

I've been waiting to have this conversation for a long time. Full confession, I'm a huge magic fan. And one of my favorite acts is a guy named Brian Brushwood. He's a magician, podcaster, author and television personality. Brian also has a great show called Scam School where he teaches viewers how to use magic to scam beers off of friends in the bar—but for a good reason. In this episode of Negoti...

This is a very personal conversation I had with a living legend in the world of hostage and crisis negotiations. This interview challenged me on more levels than I thought it would and it personally feels like the best interview I've ever done, but not because of anything I did. Jack Cambria, a 34-year veteran of the NYPD and crisis negotiation legend, is the crisis negotiation teacher that crisis...

Kurt is an entertainment lawyer and has been actively involved in the music industry for the past two decades. His clients range from Juno-winning bands, record labels, publishers, and managers, to the smallest up-and-coming artists. He tours the country regularly with his band " One Bad Son ," working with some of the biggest names in the music business, like Def Leppard and Judas Priest. Kurt an...

Mark Davis is a performance mindset coach and he believes that how you negotiate your way through your life and career all comes down to your mindset. Mark is a lawyer with a ton of start-up experience and negotiation experience. He talks about the confidence required to perform well in negotiations and he believes that most people actually get in their own way when thinking about negotiation and...

Mr Michael Wheeler, professor at Harvard Business School and author of the Art of Negotiation, is on the show. Mike's book dives into a topic that most people don't talk about and that's the role of improvisation in negotiations. We get into how to improvise and what you need to do to ensure you're light on your feet so you can react when you need to. Mike and I also get into a discussion about AA...