You’re sitting at the negotiation table, utterly frustrated as a colleague, or perhaps your boss, stubbornly clings to her position.  Downtown, a mother feels like pulling her hair out of her head trying to get her son to clean his room. Across town, a couple can’t agree on Thai or Italian.  We negotiate almost every day since, after all, conflict’s a part of life. And most of the time, we’re not even aware we’re doing it.  

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You know that moment - hands become sweaty, mouth suddenly dry.  You tell yourself over and over in your head to just say it. Just say it already.  It can’t hurt to ask. Speak up. And the sooner you say it the easier it will be.  Yet, the fear holds you down. You shrink back, trying to put the feeling out of your head. Pretending as if fear is somehow your friend, there to save you from embarrassment.  If only asking for what you wanted wasn’t so difficult. 

Sometimes life throws you a curve-ball and suddenly it may be difficult to make ends meet financially.  This feeling of losing yourself in a sea of debt is understandably terrifying and also more common than you might realize.   If you find yourself in a situation where you cannot make payments on debt or creditors are beginning to call, the first step is realizing there are solutions and that negotiation can help.  Here step-by-step guide for how to navigate negotiating debt to better equip you with the confidence you need to swim to the other side. 

In honor of Jessica Meir and Christina Koch’s groundbreaking first all-female spacewalk last week, in which they became the 14th and 15th women in history to complete a spacewalk, this week’s WIN Blog honors some of the most significant, but mostly unknown, women of NASA. Here are six female explorers, scientists, engineers and astronauts who forged the way for extraordinary women like Meir and Koch.

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The art of negotiation is a lifelong learning process.  Arming yourself with techniques and strategies can give you leverage in any negotiation, especially when it comes to pay.   

Here, we have compiled the top six practical tips to utilize the next time your salary is up for negotiation.

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Women today still have to overcome a spate of external hurdles in order to progress in their careers, from unconscious bias around their ability to lead to managers who mommy-track. Not helping the situation are the biases women tend to internalize — including ones having to do with negotiation. 

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Film—a world of fantasy, whimsy, adventure, where you can live the impossible and do the unthinkable. Negotiation—a world of logic, reality, pragmatism, where real-life implications outshine glory and movie-like success. Though these two worlds are seemingly incompatible, film can help strengthen your negotiation skills. How you are thinking?

When we learned about the New Deal in school, we surely learned about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and maybe even First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.  They certainly both played instrumental roles in pushing and implementing the New Deal, however, there was someone else who had been advocating for these basic social advancements

As far as history goes, there is no better time than today to be a woman – especially if your birthplace happens to be the United States. One only need to look at the faces of the newly elected women in congress, or watch the Academy Awards last month to realize that we have come a very long way. 

Imagine yourself walking into a networking event full of strangers. Your eyes dart around anxiously, wishing you recognized a familiar face. You head to the bar, a somewhat safe target, at least you know how to start a conversation with the bartender. You might notice your palms are now a bit sweaty as you pick your glass up off the counter.

Negotiating in love is similar to negotiating at work: cooperation is key.

Although the same basic principles for success apply, in an intimate relationship, getting what you need also requires influencing your partner in positive ways.

The worst mistake you can make on LinkedIn is to “connect” with a person and not do anything further. Have you noticed that LinkedIn encourages you to start a conversation with new connections?