Coaching practices for Meeting Compression

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• When we’re going back and forth on the price I just keep bumping my number up by the same chunk each time to keep things moving, and I can’t tell whether I’m signaling I’ve still got plenty of room to give.
• I’m trying to hold really long number sequences and even word-by-word encoding leaves me with too many separate pieces to keep straight
• Any meeting I put on the calendar for an hour reliably takes the whole hour even when the actual business is done in twenty minutes
• When I back down to my smaller request I just quietly slide into it like the big ask never happened
• We’re running out of time and patience, so we’re about to just meet in the middle and both walk away half-satisfied

Practices that may help

1. Use the Ackerman bid sequence: 65%–85%–95%–100% of target
   Make four calculated offers that converge on your target with shrinking steps — each concession signals you are approaching your limit.
   The Ackerman Method, Made Practical
2. Extend to the Person-Action-Object (PAO) system
   Assign a person, an action, and an object to each two-digit number to compress large sequences.
   The Major System: Encode Numbers as Words
3. Default to shorter meeting lengths
   Schedule 25- and 50-minute meetings instead of 30 and 60 — the meeting expands only as far as the slot allows.
   Parkinson's Law, Made Practical
4. Make the step-down visibly deliberate
   A concession that is invisible or unexplained carries no reciprocity weight.
   The Door-in-the-Face Technique, Made Practical
5. Use Compromising — but know its hidden cost
   Compromise splits the difference; it’s fast, but both parties lose something and neither is fully satisfied.
   The Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)
6. Compromising (moderate on both)
   Split the difference when a fast, fair, good-enough solution beats holding out for the perfect one.
   The Five Conflict-Resolution Styles
7. Logroll by trading issues of unequal importance
   Concede on what matters less to you in exchange for gains on what matters more.
   Expanding the Pie: Negotiation Beyond Splitting the Difference
8. Combine
   Ask: what two things — purposes, materials, functions, or ideas — could be merged to create something new?
   SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
9. Do a post-conversation accuracy check
   After important conversations, compare what each person thought was communicated.
   Closeness-Communication Bias
10. Make multiple equivalent simultaneous offers (MESOs)
    Propose several package deals of equal value to you — see which the other side prefers.
    Expanding the Pie: Negotiation Beyond Splitting the Difference

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