Caroline McMillan Portillo- Victoria Pynchon practiced corporate litigation for 21 years before she decided to become a negotiation consultant and the co-founder of SheNegotiates. And now she works with hundreds of women (and men) who are either preparing for or in the middle of a negotiation — whether it's for career advancement, salary, benefits or perks.

Pynchon said there are three clear stages to the negotiation process: Doing your prep work, positioning yourself mid-conversation for optimal benefit, and diffusing potential conflict as you negotiate for what you deserve.

Here are the questions you should be asking at each stage — and why they matter:...

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Patricia M Porter- What constitutes a ‘good death’? How and where are people dying? Are the needs of the dying being met? How can we advocate for a “good death”? Considering we are all going to die and lose loved ones at some point in time in our journey through life, these are all important questions to explore. Recently there has been an increased emphasis on the importance of addressing healthcare disparities in end of life care. This increased emphasis is mostly as a result of a bountiful of research on how dying patients are invisible in many acute healthcare settings in the United States and are victims of healthcare disparities. That is, certain groups receive lower quality of care than others. Worse than being a dying patient, is being a dying patient who is perceived by medical personnel as belonging to a different race, culture or ethnicity. These biases that lead to disparate treatment are often present at a subconscious level. Jacqueline will share her latest on-going research on ways to address end of life healthcare disparities through conflict engagement processes such as World Café Dialogues, some of the challenges, and what can you do to improve your and your loved ones quality of end of life care.

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The Art And Science Of A Successful Negotiation

Neil Patel- I won’t lie. I was nervous when I walked into the conference room.

I was facing some very powerful people. There was a lot of money at stake. The conversation we were about to have was going to climax in millions of dollars being signed over.

Or not. It all depended on how I performed. I breathed a calming breath, took my seat in the plush leather chair, and the game began.

Some people love negotiation Some people loathe it. Some people simply do it. But few people have a clearly defined strategy when they walk into a negotiation. They are simply there to show up, get it over with, and hopefully win the deal.

That’s not the way to successfully negotiate.

If you want to gain the upper hand at negotiation, there is an art and science.

1. Look like a million bucks.

Read more from Forbes.com [here]. 

FMCS Mediators Assist Energy Department and Industry Groups Establi...

WASHINGTON, June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In what has been hailed as the biggest energy-saving standards rulemaking in Department of Energy history, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) assisted industry, government and advocacy groups to achieve major new consensus energy standards for commercial heating and air conditioning equipment.  These standards could save nearly 15 quadrillion BTUs (quads) of energy over 30 years and reduce energy consumption and costs by billions of dollars over the lifespan of the equipment. 

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