Understand the concept
Calculate a walk-away floor from real contribution and capacity.
Teaching action
Ask the learner to restate the principle using their own example.
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Outcome: Negotiate terms without losing unit economics.
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Calculate a walk-away floor from real contribution and capacity.
Ask the learner to restate the principle using their own example.
Trade concessions for measurable commitments rather than giving them away.
Work one case together and narrate the decision at each step.
Document freight, damages, returns, payment, and promotional terms.
Give the learner a new case; observe the process before offering a correction.
Confirm the written agreement against the original quote.
Request an independent explanation and ask which assumptions might change the result.
Negotiate a fictional 500-unit corporate gift order.
Show a defensible price floor, concessions, and final written terms.
Accept a written, spoken, or accessible equivalent response when it demonstrates the same skill. Mark each criterion met, developing, or missing; never mark attendance alone as competency.
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