Delighted to announce that Marquette will be virtually hosting the last of our spring series where we get to hear and learn from some phenomenal new scholars in our field. It has been a great way to build our community so I invite you to join us for the final session of the season over … Continue reading DR WIP Consortium–Discovering New Voices in Dispute Resolution–Friday April 30
This whole month, I have been blogging about how different women could and should be used to teach negotiation under the theory that, if we normalized women as negotiation role models, we would all be socialized to expect that this is part of general human behavior rather than something masculine. To end Women’s History Month, … Continue reading Finding Your Own Role Model
I don’t know about you but it actually felt a little funny to have Tony Blinken named as Secretary of State. I mean isn’t that a job for a woman? The lovely thing is that there is already a generation of women and men in the US that think that job is typically handled by … Continue reading Women Make Great Secretaries…of State
This week for women’s history month, I’ll be turning toward the “professionals”–those women whose job clearly includes negotiation–and highlight how their negotiation and leadership skills should be celebrated. The skill set demonstrated by these successful leaders could be characterized as balancing assertiveness and empathy. Or being willing to both listen and make hard decisions. Walk … Continue reading Some new negotiation catchphrases: What Would Jacinda Do? Or Learn to Merkeln.
Please join me this Wednesday, March 24th, at 1:30 eastern when I speak with Professors David Matz and Bob Mnookin discussing lessons from Menachem Begin and Camp David and examine today’s leadership challenges. You can register here or here. This is hosted by the Begin Heritage Center that describes the series as such: Menachem Begin’s legacy … Continue reading International Conflict Resolution Symposium–Part 2
We already started this week talking about creative ways to persuade and I want to continue this week focusing on creativity and negotiation role models. Two women immediately come to mind, as they each used their genre to give the reader/viewer perspective on different life experiences. Maya Angelou based much of her work on her … Continue reading ADR & Activism through Art–Maya Angelou and Frida Kahlo
On the occasion of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s birthday (she would be 88 today), it seems only fitting that we use her wonderful example as another one for negotiation. And, while we could focus on her judicial career, I think a particular lesson comes from her very successful litigation strategy as a lawyer … Continue reading Reverse like RBG–and Happy Birthday
Let me start off this post with a caveat–I promise that I had already decided on this as the subject of the post before Sunday’s royal interview expose–really really. But, if the timing works for you in understanding why Oprah gets all these interviews, I’m happy for your attention too! I started this week talking … Continue reading Be Open like Oprah and Candid like Chrissy
For anyone who has been a teenager–or has faced the blunt wrath of one–there is something about the clarity of belief and total confidence in one’s position that should appeal to all of us when we discuss assertiveness. In honor of International Women’s Day, I’m using both US and foreign examples of teenage assertiveness. First, … Continue reading Talk Like a Teenager
My next examples of negotiation skills come straight from the pandemic–and by that I mean watching television for hours during the pandemic! Again, let me note that these are examples, not of negotiation per se, but rather examples of women in action showing the skills that we need for negotiation. And, as we teach negotiation, … Continue reading Have Empathy Like Eleanor (and be Perceptive like Princess Diana)
