Before coming to negotiation work shop I strongly believed that it is not easy to get achieve Win-Win or Win loss results at every negotiation. That’s made me more excited to attend this work shop. In my personal life, people around me believe me that I am a good negotiator/ buyer as “buying research “ is my routine activity. I have been successful most of the time in negotiating good deal for the things I buy in my personal life.
When it comes to professional life, I get nervous as I have never though about utilizing my inherent skill that helps me to successfully negotiate in my personal life. I did acquire some more negotiation skill by experience and learning through co-workers but that was not enough get me high level of success.
Work shop gave me an opportunity to look into many of my inherent skill and bring them out to be successful negotiator. Also learn lot of new things like acceptable power level aspiration and knowledge are key component to be a successful negotiator. Series of simulated negotiation with different scenario, gave me hands on experience in practice some of the things I learn in work shop and has increased my confident. With this work shop definitely increase the probability of a successful negotiation for me as and individual.
To move forward , to strengthen my negotiation skill, I have done self assessment that describe my strength and weakness before workshop and strength and weakness after work shop. After that I will try to identify steps to over come my weakness.
My Strength before negotiation :
My strength as a negotiator before workshop, which I think I am able to identify through this work shop is I think, acquiring information by research, under standing power level. I think aspiration for some achievement, knowledge gained through research and communication skill are the source of my power. I do research, gather as much information I can regarding product / service , market, other