Getting By

Throughout my life I have had conflict with my family and I always end up on the losing side. Fisher, Ury, and Patton shows three ways of negotiating: soft, hard, and principled negotiation. This principled is the common ground of agreeing for the benefit of both sides and agreeing based on the reasoning not the people behind the reason (pg._____). One specific scenario of my family with conflict is my brother and I arguing over our fathers orders. Using Fisher, Ury, and Patton 's book Getting to Yes (2011) there is new ways to negotiate the conversation to get to an agreement that works for all parties. Five concepts that I find to help me go through to help analyze the scenario of negotiation that my brother and I was having: one, hard and…

Marsha Norman Marsha Norman’s work shows a raw clarity that exhibits pain in all its various forms, a true to life depiction of the life that goes on around us. Through my research into her work, I have discovered that she is a playwright I truly love, I just hadn’t known it yet. Her talents span different styles of theatre and she creates a resounding truth in her works that reach out and grab the audience by the heart. It is through her skillfully constructed text and heart wrenching…

In Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton point out that when negotiating, people have an inclination toward positional bargaining. When using this method in negotiations, people argue from their respective positions in favor of their desired outcomes, and the authors suggest that this method does little to reach ideal solutions, is inefficient, and puts relationships at risk. Throughout the book, they provide instructions for using the method they term “Principled…

would rob us of our things, or, at worst, murder us. I reassured him and we agreed one of us would have to watch our supplies at all times, and that we would escape from them once we didn’t need their assistance anymore. I suppose that sounds rather “unkind”, but you have to do what you have to do, and in this case, anything else apart from gold doesn’t mean anything to us. Many days past and we got increasingly more exhausted by the minute. Some of the donkeys began getting ill, so we had…

uprising in the controversial conversation involving whether college athletes should be paid to play or not. This has brought about many positive and negative concerns to both sides of the discussion. Some reasons for why players should be paid including how much money the university makes, how disposable the players can be, and how much attention a school can gain for athletes that are preforming on star levels. There are also very compelling reasons as to why they should not be paying college…

Key West, Florida where she settles for a place that is $500 a month but far away from employment opportunities. She receives a call from Winn Dixie but decides to not take the job because of the measly hourly wage of $6 per hour and instead settles working at a hotel chain and being a waitress. On August 24th she decides to move to Portland, Maine were she stays at a Motel 6 were she is not quite used to the living conditions of staying in a small hotel. While in Portland she looks for cleaning…

Barbara Ehrenreich spend a month in each of three places—Key West, Portland-Maine, and Minneapolis The novel Nickel and Dimed is written by researcher Barbara Ehrenreich, a middle aged upper-class woman. This novel details Ehrenreich’s study of the average, lower class, working woman. The author knows though, that she truly couldn't perfectly conduct this experiment to replicate her life as the “average woman”. She did not have children to bog her down and deplete her salary. The main point of…

I still have that problem. I had learn so much on what to say or not to say while negotiating, the language, body language, and the tone to be a successful and strong negotiator. The hard part is still not knowing what the other negotiator has to say which makes me really nervous. Once the other party is silence it makes me nervous on what there thinking and is stressful. I would like to work on being comfortable negotiate with people I don’t know or in a big crowd, but I want to overcome my…

The S-TLC system. The S-TLC system is an initialism representing the terms, Stop, Think, Listen, and Communicate (Abigail & Cahn, 2011). As one of the most common and wield used communication tools, each concept is in a specific order with should be followed in a conflict resolution situation to obtain the best result from this specific method (Abigail & Cahn, 2011). Stop. In this context, stop means to stop the interaction and calm down (Abigail & Cahn, 2011). To stop can mean simply counting…

The Great Bear Rainforest (GBRF) Negotiation began by allowing each stakeholder to outline their expectations and what was at stake. Furthermore, each group was given the opportunity to express their individual perspectives and the value of each factor. Negotiations began by discussing the immediate discrepancies amongst each stakeholders’ expectations, and seeking a resolution beneficial to each party involved. Overall, negotiations were relatively calm and level-headed, with the forestry…