Negotiations require a great deal of preparation. As part of their negotiating strategy, good negotiators will try to identify any potential mishaps and prevent any damaging circumstances that may waylay the talks. For example if your counterpart in negotiations is from another country and does not speak your language, translators will be needed. They way the furniture in the room where the talks will be held is arranged can have a positive or negative effect on communications, if the seating arrangement is such that eye contact cannot be made, and body postures cannot be seen clearly. All of the non-speaking aspects of body language play a role in the heat of a negotiations session, and you will want to do all that you can to be able to pick up on them and respond in a way that is nonconfrontational and open, so that talks among the conflicted parties do not break down.
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