We welcome Jan Potgieter, founder and CEO of Imperium Global Negotiation Solutions, joining us from my ancestral homeland of South Africa. Jan created the Imperium Negotiation Methodology, enabling entrepreneurs and negotiators to save time and money while increasing earnings and building mutually rewarding, long-term relationships.
Jan began his career in the financial planning and brokering field, and then leveraged his skills in persuasion and negotiation into the IT sector. Throughout his corporate career, Jan has negotiated over $4 billion worth of commercial deals. This led to cross-industry and cross-cultural brokering roles with major global companies such as IBM, Pfizer, Adidas, Motorola, the Hilton Group, Nokia and Nike.
Jan and I got acquainted through our mutual friend David De Rego. What I want you to see and hear in this interview is very similar to dispelling stereotypical sales caricatures; negotiating does not have to be a process of shrewd hostility, as is often dramatized. Rather, it is the painstaking process of reading and researching, identifying and protecting, preparing and rehearsing, and being free at the end to say “No thanks.”
Get Jan’s 6 Business Negotiation Strategies to Add At Least 10% Margin to Your Outcomes HERE