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How to Teach Your Sales Team to Negotiate Better Deals
Improving Sales

How to Teach Your Sales Team to Negotiate Better Deals

Whether your sales team is crushing it every month or struggling to reach targets, you can always get better results. One of the main reasons sales...

5 Steps to Assess Your Leadership Skills
Leadership Skills

5 Steps to Assess Your Leadership Skills

Many leaders get to the top, think they’ve made it, and stop trying to improve. The best leaders, on the other hand, understand that leadership is...

Communication Skills: How to Deliver Bad News
Communication Techniques

Communication Skills: How to Deliver Bad News

In an ideal world, everything would be rosy, and you’d never have to deliver bad news to your direct reports. But there comes a time when every...

Dealing with a Cut-throat Negotiator
Preparing to Negotiate

Dealing with a Cut-throat Negotiator

The Black Swan Method™ was originally designed for the cut-throat negotiator. Check out this quick clip to learn how to deal with these folks (and...

Communication Skills: How Leaders Can Regain Trust
Communication Techniques

Communication Skills: How Leaders Can Regain Trust

Even though you’re a leader, you’re still a human being—which means that from time to time, you’re going to make mistakes. That’s just the way it is....

3 Tips to Win Your Next Sales Negotiation in a Virtual World
Improving Sales

3 Tips to Win Your Next Sales Negotiation in a Virtual World

Many sales negotiations have moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of sitting across the table from someone, sales teams are now hopping...

5 Steps to Negotiate Through the Sales Process
Improving Sales

5 Steps to Negotiate Through the Sales Process

If you read my previous post, “Why the Traditional Sales Process Is Wrong,” you know that we’re not big fans of the traditional sales process here at...

Why the Traditional Sales Process Is Wrong
Improving Sales

Why the Traditional Sales Process Is Wrong

I struggle with the whole idea of the sales process in general. Granted, I haven’t worked in every industry on the planet. But even though I’ve...

How to Prepare for a Virtual Job Interview
How to Negotiate

How to Prepare for a Virtual Job Interview

If we’ve learned one thing during COVID-19, it’s that it’s not that hard to maintain already-established relationships virtually. But what about...

Leadership Training: How to Confront a Fellow Leader
Leadership Skills

Leadership Training: How to Confront a Fellow Leader

Maybe you keep hearing grumblings about how a leader at the company is demoralizing their direct reports. Maybe you keep hearing about a manager who...

3 Ways You’re Stacking The Odds Against Yourself in Negotiations
Negotiation Tactics

3 Ways You’re Stacking The Odds Against Yourself in Negotiations

At Black Swan, we teach our clients all sorts of tactics they can employ to achieve better outcomes in their personal and professional lives. For the...

How to Deal with Someone Who’s Using Black Swan Tactics on You
How to Negotiate

How to Deal with Someone Who’s Using Black Swan Tactics on You

You enter a negotiation. What if there’s a Black Swan-trained ninja on the other side? In such a scenario, you’re most likely dealing with one of...

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