Success

MARCH 14, 2022

The average American won’t say yes—meaning yes to spending money—until they first come up with some type of no,” says Hopkins, who ran the leading Coldwell Banker Real Estate office in the country for several years. Not listening to client reactions is one of the worst things a salesperson can do in the heat of a proposal, Hopkins says. “I

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Success

APRIL 9, 2024

Robbins recalls growing up with nothing and scraping pennies together to buy his first suit. “My A UPS employee who never earned more than $14,000 in a year, Johnson was eventually worth a staggering $70 million. Robbins says the ability to articulate ideas and negotiate is a key factor in achieving success.

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Success

AUGUST 10, 2022

While working at Harvard University, James proposed a radical new theory (the James-Lange theory of emotion) about the link between thinking and behavior. In the first of a three-part study , Aron paired strangers and gave each one of two sets of 36 questions which allowed them to open up about increasingly private aspects of their lives.

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Small Business CEO

MAY 3, 2010

Early on, we had a lot of trouble getting our proposals accepted. Then, it was another 1 hour on the computer… typing out a detailed proposal based on their cleaning needs. In our proposals, we would always offer 2 prices: The first price was our regular price. Of course, this approach brings up a few important questions.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Not only did I set the meetings up, but I also took notes (in shorthand no less), transcribed the notes and prepared final reports for dissemination. Did I think of this as meeting planning? Did I know the difference between a board room or conference room set and a classroom set?

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Ian's Messy Desk

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

After a short discussion, the chair asks for a show of hands to determine support for proposed idea(s). Propose possible solutions, including the consequences of the proposals. The chairperson can then attempt to lead the two opposing sides in negotiating a solution. This should help the chair determine how to proceed.

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Success

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Many are not shelved in the self-help section, but each will open up new roads into your wide-open future. When the tribe gets fed up with Seagull’s constant barrel-rolls and high-speed near-misses, the elders exile him to the ends of the earth. Sooner or later, every entrepreneur discovers that negotiation is an indispensable skill.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 22, 2015

You’re expected to take limited information, understand the full spectrum of requirements and adequately translate that to suppliers, so that they may provide you with a full and accurate proposal. This may be as simple as a quick response/proposal and the offer of competitive rates, terms & conditions.

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Ian's Messy Desk

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

If you’re negotiating with me and you’re tied to your position, I can control the situation. The grip you have on your position is going to slow you down as you try and react to my counter proposals. The natural response is to tighten up and try and hold on to control of the sitaution. Try grabbing a cat.

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Page Personnel

JUNE 27, 2021

If you want to fast-track your progress up the career ladder, it’s important to look to your true business leaders and learn from their actions. How to say ‘no’ tactfully Business leaders often negotiate with partners, clients, and third-party providers – it comes with the territory. At times, this means having to say ‘no’ to requests.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 10, 2017

I grew up in a different age where working hard and being humble were par for the course for the PA. Be prepared to negotiate if necessary. Like everything in business, it’s about negotiation for both funds and time. Generation Y makes about 50% of the current workforce. Millennials belong to a Show and Tell Culture.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

If you hear people talking negatively about another assistant, walk away from the negativity or else speak up for that person to advance the profession. Propose ideas. o Negotiation. It should be us trying to elevate the profession! There are benefits to all the generations. Titles – There are more than 40 titles out there.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 5, 2015

I noticed that the things I used to do and enjoyed in my personal time had somehow gotten gobbled up with work. It's funny how things just seem to fall into place when you make up your mind about something. At first I went home and crashed each night as I was so exhausted from the last job, but gradually I started perking up.

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Page Personnel

JUNE 27, 2021

If you want to fast-track your progress up the career ladder, it’s important to look to your true business leaders and learn from their actions. How to say ‘no’ tactfully Business leaders often negotiate with partners, clients, and third-party providers – it comes with the territory. At times, this means having to say ‘no’ to requests.

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Admin Awards

APRIL 24, 2020

Terminology — Knowing the language of a particular business sector means an administrative assistant new to the company can keep up with and contribute to conversations in the workplace right from the start. Proposing cost-cutting solutions to those within the company is a good way to make yourself indispensable to the organization.

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Productivity Bits

JUNE 10, 2011

9 – Negotiate Flexibility. That negotiation might include adding more staff to the team to help with a project, or negotiating a shared work situation where we work fewer days each week, and sharing the position with someone else who wants to work part time too. 10 – Find an Understanding Employer.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 29, 2010

I know people who light up on fire at the first sign of haggling. Then there are people who feel that working out a deal is just a game, and they pony up to the betting table. There are lots of people who love to haggle – they grin like kids during negotiations, and there’s no harm, no foul if they lose. He has to ask….

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Ideas.Ted

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

It also opens the door to requesting further NDC updates from 2022 on to help ratchet up ambition this decade. This wording is weaker than the initial proposals, with final text calling for only a “phase down” and not a “phase out” of coal — due to a last-second intervention by India — and calling out “inefficient” subsidies.

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The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Hopefully you’re waking up to the gratitude and abundance movement and using it to make your life and business better. Right up until that moment when you aren’t. Instead, it waits until you’re tired, desperate and at the negotiation table with everything on the line. The Secret, ya know? You’ve heard it.

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BioTeams

JULY 31, 2005

What emerged as being critical is the recognition of the emergent nature of Virtually Networked Teams, as if the team itself were a separate entity from the constituent members who make it up. Team Ground Rules capture succinctly the non-negotiable membership behaviour rules for being a ‘good standing member’ of the team.

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