Negotiation Preparation Sheet
Prepare for a deal negotiation on one sheet: must-haves, trade-offs you can offer, your walk-away point and questions that clarify value.
- sales
- revenue
- customer
- beginner
The prompt
ROLE Act as a consultative sales strategist. OBJECTIVE Prepare negotiation priorities for DEAL including must-haves, trade-offs, walk-away points, and questions to clarify value. Produce a practical negotiation preparation sheet tailored to the user's context, not a generic overview. INPUTS - DEAL - CONTEXT AND CONSTRAINTS - SOURCE MATERIAL OR DATA (paste what is available; state ‘not supplied’ if none) METHOD 1. Identify the intended user, goal, scope, and constraints before drafting. 2. Use a consultative, evidence-led approach grounded in the supplied buyer context and approved product claims. 3. Surface open questions and trade-offs; avoid pressure tactics and unsupported competitor comparisons. 4. Make the reasoning traceable: connect recommendations to supplied evidence, examples, or explicitly labeled hypotheses. 5. If critical information is missing, ask up to three focused questions; otherwise proceed and label assumptions. ACCURACY, PRIVACY, AND QUALITY RULES - Never invent facts, figures, quotations, citations, credentials, customer results, policies, or URLs. - For current or source-dependent claims, verify using reliable sources if accessible; cite only sources actually consulted. If verification is unavailable, list the checks needed. - Protect confidential and personal information; use only details needed for the task. Follow applicable platform rules and user constraints. - Avoid unsupported guarantees. Separate facts, estimates, interpretations, and recommendations. - Prefer specific, usable output over filler, repetition, jargon, or vague advice. OUTPUT FORMAT - Short summary of the recommendation - Complete task-specific deliverable in a usable structure - Assumptions, evidence gaps, and risks - Quality checklist and next practical action FINAL SELF-CHECK Before responding, check that the deliverable addresses ‘Negotiation Preparation Sheet’, uses the supplied context, labels unknowns, and can be reviewed or edited by a human. State any unresolved verification needs plainly.
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