The document outlines key concepts and strategies from William Ury's negotiation framework, emphasizing interest-based negotiation over adversarial approaches. It presents essential tactics such as developing your BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement), reframing positions to focus on interests, and maintaining a collaborative atmosphere to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. Overall, it aims to transform negotiation environments by fostering cooperation, understanding, and positive dialogue.

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Getting To YES: Using a
Positive No
The Art of Negotiation
William Ury
Harvard Negotiation Project
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Objectives
• Set up negotiating environment
for success
• Change the game from
confrontation to cooperation
• Become a negotiation champion
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Your Negotiating Situation
• Who are the parties?
• What is the issue?
• What do you want?
• What do they want?
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Approaches
High
Concern
for Their
Interests
Low
Low High
Concern for Our Interests
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Hard Adversarial Approach
High
Concern
for Their
Interests
Low
Low High
Concern for Our Interests
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Soft Accommodating Approach
High
Concern
for Their
Interests
Low
Low High
Concern for Our Interests
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Avoidance Approach
High
Concern
for Their
Interests
Low
Low High
Concern for Our Interests
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Mutual Gains Approach
High
Concern
for Their
Interests
Low
Low High
Concern for Our Interests
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Theme: Focus on Interests
Position:
Concrete demands or stances
Interests:
Underlying motivations -
needs, desires, fears, concerns
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3 Critical Challenges
1. Instead of avoiding:
Focus on interests
2. Instead of accommodating:
Protect your interests
3. Instead of attacking:
Connect with their interests
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Interests-Based Negotiation
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1. Go to the Balcony
A place of
• Perspective
• Calm
• Self control
“Keep Your Eyes on the Prize”
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Stop to Think
• Take as much time to prepare
as to talk
• Count to 10 before responding
• “Let me make sure I understand”
• Take frequent time-outs
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Suspend Your Reaction
• Observe your natural reaction
– Respond in kind
– Break off
– Give in
• Identify your “hot buttons”
• “Have” (vs. “be”) your emotions
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Your Balcony
“Hot Buttons” Techniques
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2. Develop Your BATNA
(Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement)
Agreement
Negotiation
BATNA
Best course of action
if you cannot reach agreement
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What BATNA Is and Is NOT
(Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement)
• A back up plan, not a fallback option
• A benchmark, not a bottom line
• Empowerment for you, not
punishment for them
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Use BATNA to Determine Your Bottom Line
BATNA Bottom line
Bottom line = minimum acceptable agreement
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Develop Your BATNA
• Brainstorm many alternatives,
develop a few, select one
• Develop a sequence of BATNAs -
from intermediate to ultimate
• Look for creative alternatives - e.g.
mediation
“BATNA = POWER”
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Know Their BATNA, Too
• What is their BATNA?
• What is the worst they can do to
you? (Your WATNA)
• Take away their stick
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3. Step to Their Side
From Face to Face to Side by Side
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Put Yourself in Their Shoes
• Listen more than you talk
• Listen to understand, not to refute
• Paraphrase
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The Power of Respect
• To look again (re-spect) -- to see the
Other
• To give value to yourself and the
Other
• To pay positive attention to the
Other
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4. Reframe
• Reframing is one of your greatest
powers
• Move the spotlight away from
positions to interests, options, and
criteria
• Ask problem-solving questions
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Reframe Positions as Interests
Ask why:
“Help me understand your needs.”
“What will this achieve for you?”
Ask why not?:
“What would be wrong with…?”
“As I understand your interests, they are… Where
have I misunderstood them?”
… Don’t reject, redirect
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Reframe Positions as Options
• Invent before you evaluate
• Brainstorm a wide range of options
• Leverage differences
• Brainstorm jointly as “wizards”
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Use Objective Criteria
(independent standards for deciding
what is fair)
• Market value • Costs
• Precedent • Efficiency
• Law • Equal treatment
• Reciprocity • Scientific judgment
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5. Deliver a Positive NO
• Begin with a Yes to your interests
• Proceed with a neutral, matter-of-fact
No
• End with a Yes: a constructive
proposal
“Stand on your feet, not on their toes”
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Help Them Move Through the
Process of Acceptance
Anger
Anxiety Sadness
Denial Acceptance
Avoidance Problem-
solving
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“Because I/we
“Yes!” stand for/need…
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“I say No to/will
not… … … … …
“No.” ………………
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“I therefore
propose… … …
“Yes?” ………………
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6. Build a Golden Bridge
Start from where their thinking is:
Make it attractive for them to say “YES.”
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Satisfy Unmet Needs
Examples:
• Recognition
• Security
• Autonomy
• Power
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Help Write Their “Victory”
Speech
• Imagine that they say Yes to
your proposal
• How could they sell this to their
constituents?
• What would be their key talking
points?
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Much Success
in Your Negotiations!
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