The Art of Negotiation: Finding Common Ground with Alice Shaquina

Does the thought of entering negotiations cause a sense of dread, or you are not sure how to make the negotiations work for you? Then this episode is for you.

Melinda had the pleasure of speaking with Alice Shikina, a mediator and arbitrator with experience in personal injury, divorce, and family mediation. She also teaches negotiation skills at her Negotiations Academy and serves on several boards. In this episode, they discuss how to handle difficult negotiations, particularly when dealing with people who seem more interested in winning than doing the right thing. Alice also shares her insights on handling bullies in negotiations, finding common ground, and the importance of practicing negotiation skills.

Don't miss this engaging and informative conversation with Alice and the chance to learn more about her unique perspectives!

About our Guest:

Alice Shikina has several years of experience mediating landlord/tenant disputes and neighborly disputes. She also works with divorcing couples to get to a resolution around their children, money and property. Finally, family disputes can be about taking care of aging parents, strained relationships between adult siblings or children. Alice mediates both litigated cases, such as probate, conservatorship and unlawful detainers as well as conflicts which are not in litigation. Most cases which are stuck in conflict have strong emotional components, whether it be a business case or a family case. She help parties get beyond the emotional blocks and move them to a place where they can come to agreement.

https://www.shikinamediation.com

About Melinda:

Melinda Lee is a Presentation Skills Expert, Speaking Coach and nationally renowned Motivational Speaker. She holds an M.A. in Organizational Psychology, is an Insights Practitioner, and is a Certified Professional in Talent Development as well as Certified in Conflict Resolution. For over a decade, Melinda has researched and studied the state of “flow” and used it as a proven technique to help corporate leaders and business owners amplify their voices, access flow, and present their mission in a more powerful way to achieve results.

She has been the TEDx Berkeley Speaker Coach and worked with hundreds of executives and teams from Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Caltrans, Bay Area Rapid Transit System, and more. Currently, she lives in San Francisco, California, and is breaking the ancestral lineage of silence.

Website: https://speakinflow.com/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mpowerall

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