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Taking this class has taught me many valuable lessons that I can use in my personal life and take with me into the real world. I've learned things about myself as a negotiator. I always like to find win-win situations so that both parties can get an outcome they like. I've been in situations where I did not get a good outcome and the other party did, so I know how that feels. I like to think of myself as collaborative and willing to work with others to come up with a solution. While negotiating this semester, I think I held strengths of openness to the opposing party's opinions and views, listening to what they have to say, being honest throughout the negotiation, having the perseverance to continue on, and being flexible to what I want and what the opposing team wants. I think I also can display some weaknesses while negotiating as well. I think because I care about my opposing team and wanting them to get an outcome that is okay for them too, I tend to let them have more ...

For the past few weeks, we have been working in teams for our negotiations. It definitely makes things different while negotiation. For example, the preparation is done very differently and the actual negotiation is done differently. When I negotiate individually, I prepare by studying the readings, making notes about things I found to be important, and think about my interests. When I began to negotiate as part of a team, it was a lot more complex. Each of my group members studied our parts and then met together as a team. We all started collaborating ideas and what we all thought we should do. It was different because one of the group members pointed something out that I was not thinking of which allowed me to see a situation differently than just what I thought. It was helpful to have more than one head thinking about the situation. We were also able to talk about the situation collectively and got useful information and ideas as a team. If I were doing this negotiation alone, I ma...

For this negotiation, we had to do it completely by email, text, etc. but nothing in person. I read the text about the advantages and disadvantages of doing this. According to the text, when negotiating online, sometimes we miss information, don’t get the whole picture, diminished trust of parties, and diminished party focus. I found some of these disadvantages to be true to our negotiation by text. For one, we didn’t really get to do any background talking or get a feel for the other party. I just had to jump in with that email stating my interests. I did keep it vague and simple so that I could really see what the opposing party wanted. I also found a difficulty in this negotiation was that there wasn’t a huge commitment with either of us because it was very impersonal. However, I think there were some definite pros to doing an online negotiation. Because it was so quick and simple, it made things go by fast. My partner and I really only went back and forth twice which made this supe...