Want to Negotiate More Effectively? Switch Out ‘Ask’ for ‘Offer’

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Going into a negotiation, it often feels like we’re asking for people to grant our wishes, but this word</span> <strong>‘ask</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;">’ itself can hold us back from fully advocating for ourselves.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It makes us feel greedy, or like we’re trying to get things we don’t deserve. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What if we subbed the word ‘</span><strong>ask</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">’ with ‘</span><strong>offer</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;">’?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Could we negotiate for ourselves more effectively by simply switching the language we use? </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, I’m going to share a simple brain hack that will remove a huge hurdle from your negotiation. </span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><strong>Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode </strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>- The power of changing your negotiation approach</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How does the word ‘offer’ reframe the true value of the negotiation? </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>- Why we struggle with the idea of asking </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many of us are socialized not to ask for things because it makes us feel like we’re being a bother. How do we circumvent these well-trodden</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">neuro-pathways</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">to get what we want? </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>- A simple mental exercise with a huge benefit </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How do we identify the limiting beliefs we have around asking for something for ourselves?</span></p>