Please help me reply to these two posts:

Post 1

Derian Boswell posted Aug 27, 2024 11:09 AMSubscribe

Unfortunately I was sick, bedridden, and asleep since the seminar so I didn't post when I was supposed to. As a post disclaimer, I am going to draft these emails in regular, professional language but I will include any specific info that needs to be addressed as an italicized, parenthetical note.

Recipient: CFO

Sender: President

It has been brought to my attention from various levels of individuals within the company that the way tasks and objectives are being managed is very lenient. They are claiming that management are not actively motivating or leading in a direct manner. They seem to be stating what needs to be done, then they expect the task or objective to be accomplished in any way the instructed see fit(laissez-faire style). Without any motivation, instruction, or even a brainstormed collection ideas, employees and others most likely would not perform at their most optimal or would not even accomplish the task in a timely manner. Might I suggest that you instruct the management system to change their tactics. They should be assigning tasks and managing in a motivational way to where the employees would actively and willingly assist to make sure it is accomplished in an optimal completion(charismatic style).By leading in this way, employees normally would willingly want to assist to make sure that everything is the way it needs to be for the manager, as they would look up to them as more than just a manager, but a well-liked leader. I expect the changes to the management style to make a positive impact. Be sure that you and every other level of company individual understands the changes that are going to be made. They need to know that this drastic of a change of management style is now being practiced and would expect them to comply.

Derian Boswell

President

Honestly, there isn't enough information for us to be able top negotiate besides dangling the CFO's position over the Charybdis pit. We do not know anything about the CFO or if the CFO even has noticed the issues that were brought before the president. What negotiation techniques would even NEED to be used with the VERY limited info to the problem?

Post 2:

Evan Avila posted Aug 26, 2024 5:02 PMSubscribe

The four types of relationships in exchanges are solo market transactions, functional relationships, relational partnerships, and strategic partnerships.

The most recent solo exchange was me buying drinks for a party down near my friend's in Castle Rock, Colorado. I don't live down there and I rarely am down there so I just swung by a local liquor store and grabbed a handle of tequila. It was a little Ma and Pa shop and the service was nice but unfortunately, that will most likely be one of the only interactions I have with them.

I play a video game called Dead by Daylight and they release new content pretty regularly (every few months or so) in the form of a $5 or $10 DLC. They have a store for online video games called Steam and whenever they release new content for this game I'll go and grab it. There's not really a relationship involved in this besides the fact that I play there games regularly and enjoy it but I don't talk to the creators of the game or the Steam store.

For the relational partnerships, I run and operate a little chauffeuring business and I have a client who is out of Utah but they come and teach classes here in Colorado every 3 months or so and they need rides to and from events and the airport. They stay in communication with me, I make sure to stay on time with their flight fulfill their needs, and keep a positive relationship flowing with them.

Lastly, it's hard to think of a strategic partnership I have but the first thought that comes to mind is my dad and I's living situation as we share a mortgage. Basically we decided that it'd be in both our best interests to go in on a house together to further our equity because my dad now rents out his condo to tenants making his cost of the mortgage in this house about $500 a month. So he gets more space, I get more space, he develops equity, I develop equity, we just have to live together and pay the mortgage. If I lose my job or he loses his that could put us in a financial bind if we can no longer afford the house.