The room is dark and hazy. The man across the table from you puffs on his cigar. A cloud of smoke slowly plumes out of his mouth and rises towards the low-hanging overhead light above the table before dissipating into the air. A small bead of sweat begins to trickle down your forehead. Without unlocking […]
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Make sure to check out our colleague, Jeff Cochran, as he speaks at the Training Conference and Expo 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia. He will be speaking on Wednesday, February 15th from 12:15 PM – 3:15 PM at the Georgia World Congress Center. His presentation is based on the award-winning book, The Power of Nice: How
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RONALD M. SHAPIRO RECEIVES HIGHEST SPEAKER RATING AT THE ASSOCIATION FOR FINANCE PROFESSIONALS ANNUAL CONFERENCE Ronald M. Shapiro ranked 1st out of over 400 speakers at the Association of Finance Professionals (AFP) Annual conference this year. Other speakers included CNN senior political analyst David Gergen, 11-time NBA Champion and Celtic legend Bill Russell, and former
One of the key philosophies we believe in at SNI is that both sides can win in a negotiation. This does not mean that both sides can get everything they want. Rather, it means both sides can walk away from a negotiation satisfied. One side will always “WIN”, but the other side can also “win”.
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The third and final step in our three part series on negotiating the purchase of a used car is to propose. After you have done your preparation by determining the “standard” price for the car you want to purchase, and after you have asked the questions listed in our previous post on probing, it is now time
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In the second part of our three part series on negotiating the purchase of a used car, we will teach you how to effectively probe. After preparing for your car purchase, you need to dig for information behind the other side’s position– determine the real interests or needs of the private seller/dealer– this is what probing
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Purchasing a used car, like any negotiation, is a “process and not an event” and at the Shapiro Negotiations Institute, our process is based around the Three Ps: Prepare, Probe, and Propose. In a three part series we are going to walk you through how to effectively negotiate the purchase of a used car. The
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Trust by verify, it sounds good in theory, but how can it really be implemented? At SNI, we typically advise our clients not to make adjustments to their prices when a potential buyer claims that one of their competitors is cheaper until they see hard evidence. I asked my colleague, Jeff Cochran, for his thoughts, and
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We had a chance to sit down with our CLO, John Buelow, to discuss new developments in SNI’s training delivery methods. Additionally, John gave us an inside look at the customization process for SNI programs. What are you currently working on? There are three main things are going on right now. First, I have been
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In a recent article he wrote for the Baltimore Sun, SNI Chairman, Ron Shapiro, examines the negotiation and deal-making aspects of the Congressional debt ceiling negotiations. To read about how the basic principals of Ron’s best selling book, The Power of NICE, could benefit congress in their negotiations, please click here.
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