ExpertNegotiator® Adds Significant Upgrade With Manager Dashboard

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EXPERTNEGOTIATOR^® ADDS SIGNIFICANT UPGRADE WITH MANAGER DASHBOARD

New Technology Speeds Managers’ Usage and Provides Real-Time View into Team’s Pipeline Saving Time and Improving Negotiation Effectiveness

SCOTTSDALE, AZ – September 22, 2009 – Mary Latz,nationally acclaimed expert negotiator today announced a significant upgrade to his ExpertNegotiator^® online software with the addition of the Manager Dashboard, a feature specifically designed to save time and improve the effectiveness of procurement and supply chain managers.  The Manager Dashboard puts at managers’ fingertips a real-time, graphical view of their front-line negotiators’ pipelines and provides one-click access to each team member’s full negotiation plan and status so they can quickly identify problems or opportunities.  In addition, the Dashboard is highly flexible, allowing managers to quickly sort and view key data without running special reports.

“Front-line negotiators are already realizing the power of ExpertNegotiator as a simple, easy-to-use yet powerful negotiation solution.  Managers will instantly appreciate the value of the Manager Dashboard to better manage up via immediate access to key status data and more efficiently and effectively manage their teams by slashing internal meeting times and putting the focus on strategy vs. status,” says Marty Latz, Founder and CEO of ExpertNegotiator. “In addition, the Dashboard helps managers protect the bottom-line by ensuring the company’s key negotiators are using experts’ proven, research-based negotiation strategies and tactics in every deal, every time.”

Features and Benefits

Managers can use the Manager Dashboard to do the following:

• Implement Negotiation Best Practices – The Negotiation Pipeline and Activity Alerts provide a quick and intuitive way to stay up-to-date with your team’s activity.  By confirming at-a-glace your negotiators are creating and updating their negotiation plans, you ensure they are implementing negotiation best practices without the need for time-consuming status calls and meetings.
• Manage Negotiation Best Practices – Strategic Alerts identify critical negotiation issues, elements and upcoming deadlines.   By helping your negotiators prepare for key milestones and avoid potential problems before they occur, you’ll spend less time putting out fires.
• Improve Negotiation Best Practices – Lessons Learned immediately show what strategies and tactics are or are not working.  Use this information to ensure your team is constantly improving.

About Marty Latz and ExpertNegotiator

Marty Latz is an internationally acclaimed expert on negotiation who has taught over 60,000 business professionals and lawyers how to negotiate more effectively. His impressive experience includes negotiating nationally and internationally on The White House Advance Teams from 1993 to 1995; authoring the book Gain the Edge! Negotiating to Get What You Want (St. Martin’s Press 2004); writing as a negotiation columnist for The Arizona Republic; appearing as a negotiation expert on CBS's The Early Show and such national business shows as Your Money and First Business; serving as an adjunct professor of law for negotiation at Arizona State University College of Law from 1995 to 2005; and training and consulting for major corporations and law firms around the world. In addition to Latz's wide-ranging experience, he graduated with honors from Harvard Law School.

ExpertNegotiator is a cost-effective software solution which is the first online technology to empower front-line negotiation teams with proven, research-based strategies and best practices from the world’s strongest negotiators.  For more information, visit www.ExpertNegotiator.com or call 888-363-4684. ExpertNegotiator is a trademark of ExpertNegotiator, LLC. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

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