Negotiatress Blog Posts

Who's Afraid of Salary Expectations?

“What are your salary expectations?” This question, though pretty standard in interviews, can feel overwhelming when you come unprepared....

What Are You Worth?

What happens when you ask women what they are worth? A while ago, Negotiatress launched an Instagram challenge asking women to post a...

How to Negotiate Like a Baby

In more ways than one, babies are the ultimate negotiators. While practically powerless in most terms, they are able to get most of what...

How our Childhood Favourites Affect Our Negotiation

An important focus of the workshops I give is how our wiring affects the way we approach negotiation. By “wiring” I mean the deeply...

When You Say “No”, What Do You Mean?

So many potentially great negotiations end in fiascos due to miscommunications. One of the greatest obstacles to human negotiations is...

Taking No for an Answer

The recent conviction of long-time sex offender Harvey Weinstein may have brought to a close the deeply troubling case that sparked the...

I Know What I’m Doing

“I guess they know what they’re doing’’ is a strange assumption to make, especially at the expense of ‘’I know what I’m doing’’, and one...

Hot Air & Substance

What I love about giving Negotiatress workshops is that no two workshops are the same. Each workshop is an opportunity to dig into the...

Negotiation as a Martial Art

Last weekend I had the privilege of holding my workshop for a group of spunky young women. This was the grand finale of a 3-day training...

The Difference Between Taking and Receiving

The word for negotiation in Hebrew is “Masa Umatan”, which can loosely be translated into “receiving and giving”. This beautiful dynamic...