Easy Negotiating

I have never thought of myself as a good at negotiating but I really like the exercise we had in class on Monday where the groups had to negotiate which group was to present there proposal. During the exercise while we were at the beginning of the negotiating process I just wanted to give up and say we would do it on Wednesday, even though our group knew it would be tough since we all were very busy. Our group kept talking amongst ourselves trying to figure out whether we could even get a hold of our contact person for our project. As our group kept talking we really didn't want to go on Wednesday because our entire group was very busy and we didn't think we would have enough time. I knew that I was also very busy but I completely forgot how busy I was actually going to be on Wednesday.
The negotiating went on for a few minutes until I realized that I had a career fair on Tuesday and hopefully I would have interviews on Wednesday, which would be the day that we would have to present our proposal, all of this just started coming out as soon as I realized that I had something very important or (could) have something very important going on Wednesday. I hadn't even told my group about this yet but as soon as I realized this the words just started pouring out of my mouth and I was then in hard negotiating mode! Once I had a real purpose and better facts to support why our group should go on Friday rather than Wednesday, the negotiating became very easy and the other group decided to go on Wednesday and we could go on Friday.

Amanda Wise