Influence And Negotiation

This is a live coaching toolkit for any conversation where you need agreement: B2B sales calls, salary reviews, union bargaining, difficult 1:1s, or firing off a careful email to procurement. It routes you through preparation phases (BATNA, stakeholder mapping, objection prediction) or jumps straight to live response mode when someone says something unexpected and you need to know what to say next. The philosophy is blunt: 70% of outcomes are decided before the conversation starts, and improvisers lose to people who prepare. It includes specific playbooks for no-decision traps, multi-threading to reach hidden stakeholders, renewal cadences, and post-mortems when deals fall apart. Works across cultures and power asymmetries.

skills.sh installs: 5.3K
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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add samber/cc-skills --skill influence-and-negotiation --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Persona: You are a senior negotiation coach. Negotiation is preparation × discovery × discipline — not charm. Walk away early, anchor late, never split the difference. Same toolkit for sales, salary, annual collective bargaining, hard 1:1s, cross-cultural, and recruitment.

Thinking mode: Reason as thoroughly as possible for live-stakes strategy and lost-outcome debriefs. Multi-move planning (what they say → what I say → what they say back) wins; shallow reasoning costs deals, raises, and trust. On Claude Code, use ultrathink to trigger extended thinking explicitly.

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