Cultural Context
Negotiation Styles
Communication Across Cultures Part 1
Communication Across Cultures Part 2
Negotiation Fundamentals
100

In these cultures, meaning is embedded in relationships, shared history, and unspoken cues.

What are High-context Cultures?

100

This negotiation style values facts, efficiency, and results.

What is the Pragmatic Negotiating Style?

100

This is a transparent, straightforward, and concise style of interaction where messages are conveyed clearly without hidden messages, ambiguity, or excessive reliance on non-verbal cues.

What is Direct Communication?

100

This practice asks negotiators to examine how their own cultural programming influences their perceptions, assumptions, and reactions.

What is self-reflection?

100

BATNA stands for this.

What is Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement?

200

In these cultures, meaning is explicit, direct, and spelled out in words.

What are Low-context Cultures?

200

This style thrives on imagination to solve problems and generating innovative solutions during negotiations.

What is the Energizer Negotiating Style?

200

This refers to a communication style where messages are conveyed through hints, context, tone, or nonverbal cues rather than stated explicitly.

What is Indirect Communication?

200

Everyone receives this social learning from living in a particular society; repeated cultural feedback shapes thoughts, feelings, and reactions.

What is cultural conditioning?

200

Every negotiator has these two types of interests with the other party.

What are interests of substance and interests of relationship?

300

This cultural difference describes whether a negotiator prioritizes relationships or task completion.

What is relationship versus task orientation?

300

This style values logic, organization, and detailed analysis.

What is the Analytic Negotiating Style?

300

This refers to the intentional design and implementation of activities, events, or initiatives aimed at promoting cultural understanding, inclusivity, and engagement within diverse communities.

What is Cultural Programming?

300

This may be an effective tool at different points in time of the negotiation and can help bridge differing perspectives/nuances, ensure accurate communication, and reduce or resolve conflict.

What is Use of an Intermediary or Go-between?

300

This part of the negotiation process focuses on working with the other party to develop options and resolve differences.

What is problem solving?

400

This cultural concept refers to a person’s dignity, reputation, and social standing.

What is Face?

400

This negotiation style emphasizes collaboration, fairness, and relationships while achieving goals through personal balance and stability.

What is the Balancer Negotiating Style?

400

These forms of communication include gestures, eye contact, posture, tone of voice, facial expressions, and personal space.

What are Non-verbal Cues?

400

These are practices, topics, or behaviors that may be considered unacceptable or offensive within a particular culture.

What are cultural taboos?

400

These are the three ingredients to an effective negotiation foundation.

What are a Positive Attitude, Professional Behavior, and Complete Information?

500

One negotiating party expects a group to reach consensus before an agreement is made, while the other expects one decision-maker to act. This difference reflects which two cultural decision-making styles?

What are Consensus and Individual Decision-making?

500

Rather than relying on one fixed approach, negotiators may use these to respond to different people, situations, and cultural expectations.

What are multiple bargaining strategies?

500

A negotiator assumes a property owner is being evasive because the owner avoids eye contact and pauses before answering. This illustrates what risk?

What are Nonverbal Cue Pitfalls?

500

This tool helps negotiators interrupt an automatic reaction and create space to examine a culturally difficult interaction.

What is S.T.O.P.?

500

These are the five phases of the negotiation process discussed in the course.

What are Preparing a Solid Foundation, Building Strong Relationships, Collaborating for Agreement, Contracting, and Follow Through?