HNLR Online Article, Negotiation

Power Differentials in Negotiation: Don’t Let ’em Push You Around

By Stephen Frenkel Participants in MWI’s Collaborative Negotiation Trainings often ask how they should handle significant power differentials. Most frequently, this question is asked by those who perceive themselves to be in a position of lower power. “A collaborative approach is all well and good,” they say, “but what happens when the other side doesn’t need to buy into that approach because they have the upper hand?” My first approach is to challenge them on […]