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Empowering Women in their Business Dealings
DealPoint offers its Deal Sherpa℠ solution to women who are business owners, homeowners, employees or moms, addressing a full spectrum of relationships that are important to successful individuals, from business ownership and employment to childcare and home improvement. Here, the objective is to empower women in their business dealings. Deal Sherpa℠ is a holistic solution, with development of negotiation skills being an important objective, along with that of helping people get what they truly want in business contracting. The Deal Sentinel℠ application focuses on providing deal-by-deal negotiation support, centered on analyzing proposed agreement documents and developing bargaining strategies for specific deal, as well as additional tools, such as assistance in developing bid solicitations, requests for quotes and requests for proposals.
The Deal Sherpa℠ Solution
Helping Women Get What They Want with Business Contracts
The Deal Sherpa℠ solution is aimed at helping women protect their legal interests and pursue their business objectives as business owners, as high-performing employees, as homeowners, and as moms, looking after their career needs as well as their household needs through contracting.
This solution focuses on the needs of the woman who growing a career and a family, providing the tools and guidance she needs from her contractual relationships. Here, the focus is on helping the client 1) comprehend her contract universe, in the context of her goals and her most important needs and objectives and, from there, negotiate each deal effectively and 2) effectively protect her interests as an employee, own a business, or conduct "household procurement" for such needs as hiring in-home or drop-off childcare services or construction services for the individual's house or property. This solution arms an employee, business owner, homeowner or mom in each dimension of a deal -- strategy, problem solving, bargaining and documenting. With this solution, the client can put herself on track to meet a variety of individual-to-business contracting challenges, from avoiding legal risks in employment relationships to successful business ownership to selling a business, as well as hiring construction contractors, hiring in-home nannies or outside childcare providers and fulfilling other needs in household contracting. The solution starts with a consultative relationship between DealPointLaw and its client, having a thinking partnership at its core. The basic solution comprises regular conversations oriented toward building problem-solving, bargaining and contracting skills within the context of the client's changing circumstances. From there, additional consultating or legal services may be added.
Deal Sentinel℠
An Add-on to the Deal Sherpa Solution
Analyzing Contract Documents and Cultivating Deal Alternatives
Whether dealing with a proposed business contract or one that has already been signed and delivered to the other party, the Deal Sentinel℠ solution focuses on helping individuals look after their legal needs as contracting situations arise, whether as business owners, employees, parents or homeowners.
This solution focuses on the ad hoc needs of the individual, from partnering in business ownership, to avoiding the "gotchas" in employment contracts, to successfully contracting for a construction project, to achieving "win-win" procurement of child care or other household services. Here, the basic solution centers around various individual-to-business relationships, while add-ons offer additional support in different dimensions of deal making such as bargaining strategy and problem solving,
