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When you should you avoid negotiating?

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Question added by Muwaffaq NoufaL , Business Executive Manager , CBU Indu. &trade Co
Date Posted: 2017/03/31
Maher Mashaal
by Maher Mashaal , مدير انتاج , شركة آفاق للتعبئة و التغليف

Dear and My Brother Professor Muwaffaq ....

 

If there's no point in negotiating with someone,

When its obvious there's no room for further talk, 

Then the best solution is to simply pack-up and take a walk..

Deleted user
by Deleted user

Hello

Postponing negotiations is effective when:

- you feel being outplayed. Then it's a good idea to take a break and make corrections to your strategy.

- you feel being manipulated.

- you discover some new important information to take into account.

- when your opponent insists on your immediate decision. It's usually a bad sign for you.

 

In general if you have doubts - take a pause.

Omar Saad Ibrahem Alhamadani
by Omar Saad Ibrahem Alhamadani , Snr. HR & Finance Officer , Sarri Zawetta Company

Thanks

I think when I have nothing to negotiate by !

Regards

Nadjib RABAHI
by Nadjib RABAHI , Freelancer , My own account

  1. If you are not well prepared
  2. If you have difficulties controling you
  3. If you lack confidence in yourself 
  4. If you are not enable to prove the quality of the product
  5. If you have not built a good argument
  6. If you do not have an advance on your interlocutor. This advance consists in knowing more about:
  • The customer: his personality and his needs
  • The product: technically and commercially
  • The technique of negotiation:

1-Steps of negotiation:

The contact

Exploration

The argument

The response to objections

The conclusion

2- Style: Negotiation can be:

Dominant

Reasoned

Of position

3- The objectives: main or alternative

4- The means: 

Their field is mainly:

The customer's discovery

Verbal and non-verbal behavior

The methods of refute objectives

The use of the means of communication

Obaid ur Rehman
by Obaid ur Rehman , HR Executive , Al Bahr Al Arabi Marine Engineering Services

When you are at lower position, Or loss or recessive. 

Duncan Robertson
by Duncan Robertson , Strategy Consultant , Duncan Robertson Consultancy

Always.

You should always try to avoid negotiating.  Negotiation usually means you end up with something good, but not quite as good as you were originally hoping for.  Much better to avoid the negotiation and actually get the thing you were hoping for.  It rarely happens in practice but you should always try. 

Negotiation is always Plan B.

simon Toyiring
by simon Toyiring , REGIONAL SALES MANAGER NORTH ZONE 1 , FAREAST MERCANTILE NIGERIA LTD

When you do not have power negotiate or you are not assign to negotiate.

Manzoor Alam
by Manzoor Alam , Director , 7th Sky Travel & Tourism Services (Pvt.) Limited

When there is nothing more to negotiate and you may have reached on the bottom line. In such cases if you try to further stretch then may loose whole game or collapse it.

محمد عادل عبد اللطيف
by محمد عادل عبد اللطيف , Geologist / Negotiation Expert , EGAS

 (theoretically : When I can obtain my needs without negotiation

or I avoid Negotiation Till I can find a strong BATNA

or When the target of the other party equal to my Preservation Price

or When the Negotiation is about non-negotiationable issues 

boualem larbi
by boualem larbi , مراقب , الديوان الوطني للاحصائيات

When it has no use. ...........

Mehul Shah
by Mehul Shah , Director Customer Engagement , Prodapt

Traditional negotiation is based on the principle to maximize own benefit, hence often the negotiation resulting into a win-lose situation. Modern negotiation is an art to understand other's viewpoint, and try to make the pie bigger. Try to find out the unfulfilled and untold needs which can make the outcome a win-win situation. 

 

However, negotiation should be done when both the parties recognize the need for negotiation and are willing to discuss. If that is not correct, better not to start the negotiation until the stage is set correctly. 

 

When the negotiation starts, some people try to use certain tactics to push you in a specific direction and force you to take the decision. Try to take a break, pause the negotiation. 

 

Often processes,  frameworks and norms are such that there is no sense of doing any negotiation.  E.g. Doing negotiation over postal stamp prices is futile excercise. Or negotiating something against the law is not a wise idea. In all such cases, there is no scope for negotiation. However, the situation should be accepted as it is. 

 

In short, pick your battle. Negotiate, only when both the parties have reasons to negotiate. 

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