Negotiation Jujitsu Example: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices

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Practices that may help

1. Negotiate: know your minimum and be willing to give and take
   Decide in advance what you are willing to accept short of your full ask, and be ready to offer something in exchange.
   DEAR MAN: DBT’s Skill for Asking for What You Want Effectively
2. 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
3. Walk away cleanly when the deal falls below your reservation price
   Saying no to a bad deal — and meaning it — is the practice that gives all the others their teeth.
   BATNA: Your Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement
4. Insist on objective criteria
   Anchor the deal to independent standards — market rates, precedent, expert opinion — not willpower.
   Getting to Yes: Principled Negotiation
5. Negotiation jujitsu
   When they attack your position, don’t push back — redirect the force toward the problem.
   Getting to Yes: Principled Negotiation
6. Frame proposals as "yesable propositions"
   Make your proposals easy for the counterpart to say yes to — not easy on your terms, but easy to accept as legitimate.
   Principled Negotiation, Made Practical
7. Insist on objective criteria to evaluate options
   Agree on an independent standard — market rate, precedent, expert opinion — before applying it to the specific deal.
   Principled Negotiation, Made Practical
8. Run a negotiation debrief to learn what value was left on the table
   After closing, compare priorities with the other side to see the trades you both missed.
   Expanding the Pie: Negotiation Beyond Splitting the Difference
9. Invent options for mutual gain
   Brainstorm multiple possible deals before deciding, expanding the pie before splitting it.
   Getting to Yes: Principled Negotiation
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

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• The second they push back I either cave completely or harden into all-or-nothing, because I walked in without ever deciding what I could actually live with→
• There are several things on the table here, and some matter way more to me than others→
• The offer in front of me is below what I swore I’d accept, and I can feel myself reaching for a reason to say yes anyway→
• This has turned into a pure contest of who’s more stubborn, and whoever caves first "loses"→
• The other side keeps coming at me hard→

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