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Negotiations in English: Assignment

One of the most important skills anyone can hold in daily life is the ability to negotiate. In general terms, a negotiation is a resolution of conflict. We enter negotiations in order to start or continue a relationship and resolve an issue. Even before we accept our first jobs, or begin our careers, we all learn how to negotiate.

Some people are naturally stronger negotiators, and are capable of getting their needs met more easily than others. Without the ability to negotiate, people break off relationships, quit jobs, or deliberately avoid conflict and uncomfortable situations.

In the world of business, negotiating skills are used for a variety of reasons, such as to negotiate a salary or a promotion, to secure a sale, or to form a new partnership.

Here are a few examples of different types of negotiations in the business world:

• Manager and Clerk: Negotiating a promotion
• Employer and Potential Employee: Negotiating job benefits
• Business Partner A and B: Making decisions about investments
• Company A and Company B: Negotiating a merger
• Customer and Client: Making a Sale 

Choose any topic and prepare for a negotiation. Work on three main stages:

1)      Opening: a clear introduction to the negotiation.

2)      Discussion: effective influencing strategies.

3)      Conclusion: the success of the negotiation for both parties.

Prepare to perform the negotiating process in class.

Web search

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITY:

-              Sign up with Glogster.

-              Having carried out the web search on the suggested topics, answer one of the two topical questions and publish your essay as a glog.

-              Share your links to glogs, and your ideas are to be discussed later on in class.

TopicS:

(1)             The challenges of negotiating across cultures.

(2)             Language of influencing.