"Negotiation is a dialogue between two or more people or parties, intended to reach an understanding, resolve point of difference, or gain advantage in outcome of dialogue, to produce an agreement upon courses of action, to bargain for individual or collective advantage, to craft outcomes to satisfy various interests of two people/parties involved in negotiation process. Negotiation is a process where each party involved in negotiating tries to gain an advantage for themselves by the end of the process. Negotiation is intended to aim at compromise. Negotiation occurs in business, non-profit organizations, government branches, legal proceedings, among nations and in personal situations such as marriage, divorce, parenting, and everyday life. The study of the subject is called negotiation theory. Professional negotiators are often specialized, such as union negotiators, leverage buyout negotiators, peace negotiators, hostage negotiators, or may work under other titles, such as diplomats, legislators or brokers." , [ what can be negotiated? list of negotiables? Non negotiables? ... < 10 -14 WHY? - Thomas Page

Demands ... [ Goal-setting requires communication, commitment, buy-in and negotiation by everyone involved. Setting goals should follow this simple rule Be-SMART.[6] SMART usually stands for: S - Specific (or Significant). M - Measurable (or Meaningful). A - Attainable (or Action-Oriented). R - Relevant (or Rewarding). T - Time-bound (or Trackable). , Goal-setting Goal setting is a powerful way of motivating people, and of motivating yourself. The value of goal setting is so well recognized that entire management systems, like Management by Objectives, have goal setting basics incorporated within them. Many of us have learned – from bosses, seminars, and business articles to set SMART goals. In Dr. Edwin Locke's 1968 research article "Toward a Theory of Task Motivation and Incentives", he states that employees are motivated by clear goals and appropriate feedback. He went on to say that working toward a goal provided a major source of motivation to actually reach the goal – which, in turn, improved performance. Locke's research showed that there was a relationship between how difficult and specific a goal was and people's performance of a task. He found that specific and difficult goals led to better task performance than vague or easy goals. In 1990, Lock and Latham published their book called "A Theory of Goal-Setting and Task Performance" outlining five principles of goal-setting. To motivate goals must have: Clarity Challenge Commitment Feedback Task Complexity Using the SMART Guidelines in setting goals and applying these Principles, your goal-setting process will be much more successful and your performance will improve. , Effect of goal settings An effective goal can motivate the behavior and help you identify the path toward achieving them by prescribing the behavior needed. Motivation can explain the direction, effort and persistence that is applied toward achieving your goals. Setting goals directs your behavior by focusing your attention and causes an increase in your efforts towards achieving them. Setting intrinsically motivating goals builds behavior that you see as an end in itself. Reinforcement or punishment that results from your behavior provides extrinsic motivation. Setting extrinsically motivating goals builds behavior that you see as a means to an end. [10] Goal-setting research has found that setting specific, difficult goals leads to higher levels of performance than setting easy, vague goals (Locke and Latham, 1990). Setting specific goals will allow you to determine if you can realistically attain it providing more motivation to achieve it. The more difficult a goal, the more measurable it is against an objective standard which may motivate higher performance. This will also have a positive effect on your self-esteem. It is important to set realistic goals that can be achieved in steps ensuring you have the necessary qualities, skills and abilities. It is recommended that you set performance goals rather than outcome goals so that it is easier to control. Outcome goals may not be under your control if they depend on other people's actions.[11] [[[ clipped from top Goal-setting is used by top-level athletes, successful business-people and achievers in all fields. Setting goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. It focuses your acquisition of knowledge, and helps you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the most of your life. By setting sharp, clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals, and you'll see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind. You will also raise your self-confidence, as you recognize your own ability and competence in achieving the goals that you' ve set. - Thomas Page

http://changingminds.org/discipl... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ Best alternative to a negotiated agreement was developed by negotiation researchers Roger Fisher and William Ury of the Harvard Program on Negotiation (PON), in their series of books on Principled negotiation that started with Getting to YES, unwittingly duplicating a game theory concept pioneered by Nobel Laureate John Forbes Nash decades earlier in his early undergraduate research [ http://friendfeed.com/citizen... ] 11 -13 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

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12 -18 Negotiation by not negotiating ? Variation on Bad Faith? - Thomas Page

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Antithesis antonym [ triumph of the imposers [[ might is right , absolute power Coruption rigged games Unamerican Activities [[[ Don't be no fool , mind the rules - Thomas Page