External Locus Of Control

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This fifth negotiation that we did was unlike any other we had done for many reasons. The whole time leading up to the negotiation seemed to be a bunch of unfortunate events at my expense. Although the results that I received at the end of the negotiation weren’t as bad as they could’ve been, I still believe it to be somewhat of a failure because I know I had the potential to do better. If I had an external locus of control I would have just attributed this failure to the influences that affected me leading up to the negotiation. However, being a person with a high internal locus of control I know that my success is based on my own work. I could have been more successful in this negotiation had I been better at planning, been more careful and more …show more content…

The week of the negotiation I had an abundance of work, presentations and papers to work on. Because I am a procrastinator I usually leave work to be done till the last minute. This time I tried to manage my time wisely and even started working on them a week before they were due for a change. Unfortunately, it was more than I expected and more work piled on from other classes. I still managed to work on everything in a way in which I thought I could finish it all on time. The day before the negotiation, before my last class I finally decided to look at my role sheet and the background information for the negotiation. I typically don’t wait so long to look at my negotiation role sheet but given the circumstances this was the time I was able to start. I was sitting in the commuter’s lounge when I decided to look at my role sheet. I had read through the role

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