Blogs - RED BEAR Negotiation Company

If you’re reading this, you likely work in a demanding environment that requires a lot from you personally and from your team. Inevitably, these high-output environments add stress to our roles and cause friction within our teams. In high-pressure environments, it can be very difficult to maintain mutual esteem among your colleagues.

When tension increases, our automatic reflex tends to be to talk more and listen less. Tension makes us uneasy, and when we feel uneasy, we lose sight of the long view and get defensive.