Kokoro is an Ally and Partner with the inquirer in negotiations with 3rd parties—Kokoro can become at once a friend, mentor, coach, and hidden player in all your important negotiations.
# 2—Allying with Kokoro in Important Negotiations with 3rd parties
—Kokoro can become at once your ally, mentor, coach, and a hidden team player in all your important negotiations.
Setting up to Succeed. Stop! Before you engage with 3rd parties, pause, and take the following preliminary actions, over which you have 100% control. In times of peace, the wise prepare for combat. The following actions will immediately give you the initiative:
—Know Yourself: Complete IRQ Base Line Questionnaire (insert link)
—Now prepare your Higher Mission Statement (insert link) for the overall negotiation. A negotiator without a clear higher mission is like a captain of a ship without a rudder.
—Next prepare a Supplemental Supporting Mission Statement for a specific encounter. If your higher Mission statement has integrity, all that is necessary in subsequent actions is to align the supplemental missions to support it. We call this “vertical integrity or coherence.” If there is coherence between your immediate mission in a specific negotiation and your higher mission in this situation, you can be certain that you are on the right track,
—Prepare an Action Log (insert link) which can serve both as a game plan, record, and guide to best next moves.
—Use Field Notes (insert link) to track and measure your progress.
—Organize a cohort; track and measure its progress using the Field Notes.
Training and Coaching with Kokoro. Feel free to ask any question, consult with any guide, and cultivate the Wisdom—Resilience Practices you deem most useful to you. Since the practices are holographic—meaning each principle or move contains essential parts of all the others—what is important is to select a specific behavioral skill or part of the Resilient Negotiation system that you believe, or your intuition tells you. is vitally important. Focus there over a period of weeks. See if you can detect a Compounding Multiplier Effect with other practices. Track and measure the value to you.
Please Read Piloting Through Chaos—The Explorers Mind (Book 1) or listen to Module # 14 on Resilient Negotiation (pdf format) in the Resilient Community Leadership course
Beginning—Please refer to the 5 Rings illustration and discussion.Complete Tasks in Rings # 1-3 in the indicated order for any negotiation of importance to you. Ask Kokoro ™ for advice on each step. Ask Kokoro for its advice on early horizon risks and opportunities. See the Big Picture.