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How You Can Address Negativity During Negotiations
Negotiations can often feel like navigating a minefield, where misunderstandings and unmet expectations give rise to negativity that can derail...
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Moving Between the Black Swan Skills
The Black Swan Method® consists of the Negotiation 9® skills which have been battle-tested and are proven to streamline difficult conversations as...
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Heal Strained Relationships: 4 Tactical Empathy™ Techniques for Negotiation Success
You may believe you deal with many different personality types in your personal and professional life. What steps do you take to make yourself more...
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The Top 4 Most Common Negotiation Failures
1. Staying in the moment It’s easy to prepare for a negotiation ahead of time. Staying in the moment and using The Black Swan Skills during it is...
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3 Icebreakers to Help You Actually Start Practicing Negotiation
We all want to get good at a skill. Unfortunately, most of us get stuck in the “reading about it” phase. We read a dozen self-help, personal...
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How Poor Communication Can Negatively Impact Your Relationships
It’s always the classic scenario: the dreaded, terrible first date. We see it all the time on reality TV or social media— one person talked about...
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Our Groundbreaking Method is Emotional Intelligence on Steroids
At its core, Tactical Empathy® isn’t what makes the Black Swan skills work. Instead, it’s what happens when you use the skills correctly.
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Leaders, Stop Getting Lapped: 5 Unbelievable Benefits of Using Accusation Audits™️
If you’ve ever watched a NASCAR race, you have likely witnessed this scenario: The leaders do everything right, and things are going smoothly...until...
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How Dynamic Silence™ Can Boost Communication in the Workplace
Work conversations can be very transactional. It’s not uncommon for professionals to have a different version of the same conversation over and over...
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6 Negotiation Techniques to Manage Relationships with Challenging Coworkers
Challenging coworkers exist on almost every team. Some are assertive and charge forward without collaboration or approvals, whereas others don’t...
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How to Use Labels™ to Neutralize Negative Emotions in a Negotiation
Humans are wired to think negatively.
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3 Ways Tone Can Make or Break a Deal
Your tone of voice is the first thing people notice about you. Tone is more than just volume—it’s a balance of your pitch, pace, timbre, intonation,...