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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
When was the last time you negotiated something?
Not your salary, though.
Well, think about it this way.
Have you ever compromised with a friend or a housemate, partner, family member?
If so, you have done some form of negotiation, whether it was over who's gonna do the dishes, what you were having for dinner, or where you were gonna go on vacation together.
I had some friends the other day, a couple, deciding on what ice cream flavors that they were going to get from the grocery store.
That's Joan Moon, founder of Moon Negotiation, a negotiation and career coaching firm.
She's also the head of negotiation coaching at the Harvard Kennedy school.
And she says, yeah, some negotiations are much higher stakes than others.
But the point is, negotiating can help you come up with compromises, creative solutions that go beyond yes or no, this or that.
And that can help you get unstuck.
It can really improve your everyday contentment, your satisfaction with your situation, and it can really give you a sense of agency.
It gives you a sense that you are making intentional choices and creating a life for yourself, curating a life for yourself that you're happy with.
On this episode of Life Kit, Joan and I are going to walk through some of the negotiation strategies that you might typically use when you get a job offer or a promotion and talk about how you can apply those in your day to day lives.
Well, let's get into some of the formal negotiation tactics that you can use in these everyday situations.
There is a term that's gonna come up here, benchmarking.
What is that?
Yeah.