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Negotiators Need To Learn How To Stop Deception In Negotiations

The Accidental Negotiator

Prevent deception in a negotiation by discouraging the other side from trying Image Credit: SexyAndHotTv. If we can’t count on being able to detect lies, a more fruitful approach may be to find ways to discourage the other side from engaging in deceptive tactics in negotiation in the first place. Negotiations can take a long time.

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What To Do When The Other Side Is Bargaining In Bad Faith

The Accidental Negotiator

Negotiators need to know how to deal with false negotiation tactics Image Credit: Viewminder. When we enter a negotiation we generally have one goal in mind: we want to reach a deal with the other side. As a negotiator, we need to understand that the other side may at times be negotiating in bad faith.

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Best Way to Reduce Discounting: Better Negotiating or Value Selling?

The ROI Guy

Recent studies indicate that the average discount levels has risen to 20% per deal (IDC), but we find that many solution providers would be happy if that were the level of discount they were providing. And Procurement is getting way more involved in every transaction, with specific incentives to extract discounts from every vendor proposal.

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How Can You Find A “Win-Win” Solution In Your Next Negotiation?

The Accidental Negotiator

Negotiators need to know how to create win-win situations during a negotiation Image Credit: Alex Russell. As negotiators, what we would all like to be able to do during each of our negotiations is to find a way to create a “win-win” situation. Try Joint Fact-Finding. Don’t do this!

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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Or maybe you think that incentives have run their course and it’s time to drop them altogether. If you’re thinking of asking your reps what will make the best prize in the incentive program, stop. Are incentives obsolete? Don’t do it.

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How to Use Sales Rebuttals During the Negotiation Process

Xactly

If you have the right rebuttals, you can work through every objection in the negotiation process. Nonetheless, it is up to you to win negotiations with the right sales rebuttals. This can be especially true in the negotiations process where all the details need to be ironed out. Do Customer Objections Have to Be Scary?

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When it’s OK to give a customer a gift – and when it’s not

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

It’s complicated According to two studies on the subject, gift giving in sales can get complicated. To see what that means, let’s consider those two studies. Now, this study was conducted in an industry where lavish gifts – for example, an all-expenses-paid trip to a conference in Hawaii — had once been the norm.