Personal Reflection Paper Initially, I would like to talk a little about my role in the fundraising project and then mention about how OB concepts played a role in the completion. My role in the project was Purchasing and Procurement Officer and as the name suggests, this was a very demanding job and highly respected by all my peers. This position was very significant for me that, I cannot emphasize enough how much it is going to help me in my field of studies and possibly my career. Being part of the “Basketball Shootout”, my biggest challenge was to get desirable gifts for the participants and making sure it did not cross the projected budget. In order for me to do the job very efficiently, I had to use my networking skills and track …show more content…
Another interesting concept that I came across was that, I personally witnessed myself competing and avoiding to be less cooperative at times and was immediately pulled back to see this. However, I also believe that I brought a culture into the group, which fulfilled the role of a negotiator in order to avoid conflict and save time on decision making. This was to me a breakthrough in my learning experience only because I did not know I had them(skills). I understood the fact that many tradeoffs are made in a project, and a mediator was always in favor of the group. My intuition that our group had an integrative characteristic to its negotiation policies proved right. A lot of this was to make each other happy at the moment and also the fact that we were peers hoping to maintain long term relationship was also a reason. However, it was not possible for me to create a win win situation all the time. I believe that my reasoning and persuasion skills helped to some extent to avoid conflict. This was also a perfect opportunity for me to put a number of other alternatives on the table for discussion and thus exploring my creative side. Overall, I must say that looking back at our achievements, I think it was worth the time and effort and was not bad at
was my goal to focus on collaborative negotiation strategies. I have been involved in a huge number of
The negotiations class was an insightful experience. It helped me attain a better understanding of my strengths and weaknesses both personally and professionally. It helped put into perspective a lot of my theoretical analysis conducted on group dynamics and, most importantly, has helped me become a more effective negotiator. My goal with this paper is to communicate the evolution of my negotiation skills during the progression of the course.
Negotiation occurs on a regular basis in a daily life and individuals negotiate in business occasions or outside of the workplace. Having superior negotiation skills is conductive to the success in personal life and career development. This essay will indicate that my natural preferences for different influencing tactics, comparisons between theory and practice, and a personal action plan to improve negotiation skills based on the role-play activity in my class.
When it comes to conflicts and negotiations I have always been the type of person to avoid them. The reasons I avoided them was because I did not know how to handle these situations properly. When it came to conflicts or negotiations, I would have no medium. Either I would be calm during those conflicts or I would get really mad. Those two options were not good for me or good for the people I was trying to resolve conflicts with. After taking this course I learned that I have the avoiding style in the TKI assessment. This assessment has helped me with strategies I could use in the avoiding style, and has also taught me how to use different strategies from various different styles.
Also, I learned that although it may seem a lot better to maintain cordiality and an atmosphere of trust during the negotiation, at some point, when it is not going anywhere, it might be better to adopt a stronger position. Mainly, it had to be used to show the other party that even if an agreement is profitable for both parties, there is a point of no return, that it is time to really start looking for other solutions, more creative ones.
I feel that by looking into greater detail the concept of negotiating with learners will support me in understanding what helps the learner to adapt to their environment, work well with others, and ways in which I can enable
My relationship is not good with the negotiator but it is not bad. It is good enough to where I will do work with her again if I absolutely have to or it will put my name out to high level costumers (such as the government). But on the other hand I will not enjoy working with her due to not having any visual concessions. During this negotiation labeled my concessions and got the response of someone who did not care. From this negotiation I learned to become
Consequently, negotiation is a process that can be approached in many ways. No matter what strategy we choose, success lies in how well we prepared. The key to negotiating a beneficial outcome is the negotiators’ ability to consider all the elements of the situation carefully and to identify and think through the options. At the same time, negotiators must be able to keep events in perspective and be as fair and honest as circumstance allows. Because a common ground or interest has brought the parties to the negotiating table, a negotiator can benefit by trying to capitalize on this common
I never imagined myself as a mediator, but prior to beginning this class I learned from previous students that it included role plays in which we mediated disputes between our classmates. I incorrectly assumed we would be thrust in a simple situation like helping mutual friends work out some simple disagreement. I did not realize we would practice our conflict management skills in so formal and serious a setting. I found the prospect somewhat daunting, but as the semester progressed I became increasingly comfortable with mediation. I performed well in certain aspects of the mediations and struggled, but improved in, others, culminating in my best mediation yet. In short, I improved my mediating abilities throughout the semester, progressing from an average mediator who performs adequately to an excellent one who effectively uses key mediation tactics, at least in role plays.
I used to think that some people were born good negotiators and people like me were simply bad at bargaining for anything and there was nothing that we could do about it. After taking the Managerial Negotiation course, I realize that I was wrong and negotiations skills are not inherited, but can be developed over time through systematic
Both our approaches were directed towards addressing the issues with a collaborative spirit for the greatest benefit to both sides. We agreed that both sides wanted to establish a long term a relationship with each other and were willing to give genuine consideration to each other’s particular needs and interests. This experience has enabled me to reflect on my personal approach towards negotiation, as well as analyze my strengths and potential areas for improvement as a negotiator.
My time in the negotiation skills workshop was very humbling. Before the workshop began my negotiation ability was one of the business skills I knew needed the most improvement. When going into negotiations at work, prior to the course, the only thing I knew was that I wanted a lower price then I was given. What actually surprised me most what that I did actually have some effective negotiating strategies but I was correct in my belief that I had a lot to learn. When you have a goal but lack a game plan on how to achieve it that makes negotiating very difficult and something that I approached with much reservation at work.
When I compared with other cases I could see how we negotiated in a less stressful way and did focus on the problem and not on positions. And I think we learnt a lot of things for the following cases that ended up more open and with a focus on the problem.
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Negotiation is all about a strategy. The end result is usually to end a problem that someone is having, whether it is personally or