Let’s Make a Deal
Audiences of all ages and competencies relate to this topic because in today’s challenging business climate, the ability to negotiate can make the difference between success and failure. That’s why Ed Brodow’s entertaining and informative negotiation keynote is always SRO: Standing Room Only. His message is that you can overcome the current economic malaise and outpace your competition by utilizing core negotiation strategies, such as aiming high, challenging negative assumptions, and improving listening skills. Clients love how Ed relates his talk to their unique issues. Ed’s high energy, humorous anecdotes, and useful ideas will create an upbeat rhythm for your meeting or convention.
Sales Negotiation: More is Better
When it comes to the selling price for your product or service, more is definitely better. In fact, closing the sale means nothing if the deal is not profitable. Ed Brodow draws on his sales negotiation experience to show your sales force how to create satisfied customers at higher prices. According to Ed, the most satisfied customers are the ones who pay top dollar because they appreciate the value of their investment. Successful sales negotiators exude confidence, focus on perceived value, and aren’t afraid to say “no.” Your sales force will stop discounting after they hear Ed’s entertaining, real-life stories about how to turn customer price objections into value-based sales. The mantra for the rest of your sales meeting will be “More Is Better!”
The Human’s Guide to Win-Win Negotiating
Chimpanzees are hostile. Bonobos make love. Which are you? Using the unusual metaphor of our closest relations, primates, Ed Brodow’s entertaining program proves that success happens when you treat other people as partners. The differing behaviors of chimps (adversarial) and bonobos (cooperative) remind us that win-win collaboration works best. Trust develops when you acknowledge the other side’s perspective and explore options for mutual satisfaction. According to Ed’s bestselling book, Negotiation Boot Camp: “If both sides feel satisfied, everything is possible.” Your audience will love it when Ed challenges them to decide: “Are you a chimp or are you a bonobo?”
Critical Thinking
When more than 400 senior HR professionals were asked to name the most important skill their employees will need in the next five years, critical thinking ranked the highest. In this exciting keynote, negotiation expert Ed Brodow explains how your organization can import critical thinking to improve all areas of the organization. Benefits of critical thinking: it helps maintain effective leadership, promotes creativity, improves team performance, and enables people of diverse backgrounds to work together. Critical thinking forces managers and employees to look at a situation and weigh all possible solutions before coming up with a final answer.
Optimism is Everything
In this inspirational keynote, Ed Brodow draws on time-tested principles of negotiation to prove that the only guaranteed way to be successful is to expect to succeed. “Successful negotiators are optimists,” he wrote in his bestselling book, Negotiation Boot Camp. For two decades, Ed’s Fortune 500 clients have learned the five pillars of optimism: aiming high, maintaining Negotiation Consciousness, exuding the Confidence Mystique, carrying on an affectionate inner dialogue, and being willing to walk away. Companies that make it to the top are led by optimists who expect to out-do the competition and grow the business in spite of economic setbacks and other factors that have nothing to do with getting the job done. But optimism is an individual responsibility. You have to negotiate with yourself. Nobody will do it for you. “Perpetual optimism,” said Colin Powell, “is a force multiplier.”
