Read our recent Negotiation Strategies business columns - many of which were featured monthly in the Business Journal in various markets across the United States.

• November 2008, Improve Business Relationships: Communication tips for corporate leaders.



• October 2008, Managing the Difficult Team Member: Techniques for keeping the team on track.



• September 2008, The Art of Diplomacy in Business: Primary means to effective negotiation is productive dialogue.



• August 2008, Effective Meeting Management: Technology, the Mad Hatter's tea party and the human side of business.



• February 2008, Negotiating with Irrational People: Cuban missile crisis standoff has business lessons.



• December 2007, On Making the First Offer: Should you go first?



• November 2007, Fairness Best When It Goes Both Ways: Do you want more than what is fair?



• October 2007, Five Steps to Shaping Deal Clarity: A fresh approach to contract negotiations.



• August 2007, Three Steps Help Prepare for Negotiation: Increase your chances for success.



• July 2007, Making Trust a Priority in Negotiating: Useful approaches to help build trust.



• June 2007, Getting Past Deadlock: Techniques for overcoming impasse.



• May 2007, Four Step Process: To ensure your ideas are listened to fairly.



• March 2007, Some Ideas to Defuse Turf Wars: Understanding objectives, aligning them and more...



• January 2007, Negotiation Must Be Core Capability: Ideas for building collective corporate negotiation strength.



• December 2006, Creativity Can Help Negotiation: Tips for generating creative options in negotiations.



• November 2006, Negotiate Objective Standards to Avoid a Contest of Wills: Tools for producing fair, wise and amicable agreements.



• October 2006, Agreement isn't the End of the Deal: Steps to follow when negotiating a management plan for your agreement.



• September 2006, How to Stop Negotiation Tricksters: Techniques for neutralizing tricks and keeping negotiations moving forward.



• August 2006, Dialogue Can Avoid an Impasse: Three options for breaking through negotiation impasse.



• July 2006, Conversing vs. Confronting: A practical approach to managing corporate conflict using the AFIR model™.

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