C-TO-BE Strategy Meeting 2025 at Lake Starnberg

In late summer, we treated ourselves to a special break: our team gathered at Lake Starnberg – finally in person again, not just virtually from Munich, Kassel, and Berlin.
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Do you Still Want to Improve Your Negotiation Skills? These are the 7 Best Books on how to Negotiate

Your ability to negotiate with your bosses, investors, customers, and colleagues determines whether your career or your business flies high or falls flat. These are the seven books about negotiation that every negotiator should own, read and master:
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How to Deal With Threats: 4 Negotiation Tips for Dealing With Conflict at the Bargaining Table

How should you respond when the other side threatens to walk away, file a lawsuit, or damage your reputation? Sooner or later most of us faced with threats at the negotiation table. Direct counterattacks are rarely the answer. They could launch an uncontrollable spiral of conflict. Alternatively, you might be tempted to immediately give in to your opponent’s demands, which would probably only reinforce their domineering tactics. The Project on Negotiation recommends the DEAL approach. It allows you to redirect talks toward a focus on each other’s interests. Below you will find negotiation tips for using the DEAL method.
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Lessons in Domestic Diplomacy

It happens every night when parents start to discuss how to distribute tasks of their life while socially distancing. Who’s waking up early with the kids? Who’s responsible for home schooling? What do you mean you forgot to pick up the toilet paper? Maybe then she will cross her arms and stare at the ceiling. He will throw up his hands and raise his voice. Finally, one of them will storm out of the room.
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Online Negotiation in a Time of Social Distance

The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced face-to-face meetings and travel, but deal making is still possible. Here you will find the best tips on how to negotiating virtually.
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8 Body Language Tips to Improve Your Negotiation Skills

Strong negotiation skills are hugely advantageous throughout one’s life, from presentations to negotiations. These skills largely rest on your ability to back up your words with physical actions that exude openness, honesty, and confidence. This fosters trust and increases the other party’s desire to react cooperatively and reach agreement. Studies have shown that people are 80% more likely to remember information that was communicated to them both orally and visually.
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