Week Two: Negotiation

Last week, we practiced about negotiation skill with partner. We supposed the situation: A wants to eat oranges because he/she is thirsty. B also needs oranges for cooking orange flavored cake. There is two oranges in refrigerator, so how can we divide?

We role played with partner, and I played A. It took a lot of time and difficult to reach the solution because my partner(Sho) and I never compromised:P
But at the end, we found the win-win solution which is both of us got what we want. Sho suggested I can get peer of oranges and he got orange fruit. Ken called it's "magic solution". After finishing class, I thought we negotiate as usual in daily life. This orange case is good example. When I spend with my family, sometimes I quarrel with my parents about who has the right to watch TV. My father wants to watch baseball game, my mother want to wants to watch drama and I want to watch documentary movie! We discuss and negotiate each other in order to find best solution.
Negotiation skill is important not only for leader, but also for all of us, I think. I realized the importance of this skill through the class.