the party who initiated the de-escalation then makes the concession
the specific concession should be something that is obvious unambiguous and sudject to easy verification return to the table next monday but they expect menegement to be ready to negotiate in good faith making in public and symbolic also helps
if the other the sequence selecting a simple low-risk concessionin an effort to attract the other into synchronized de-escalation if the other dose respond then the initiator proposes a second action slightly riskier than the first and once again initiates the sequence as the synchronized de-escalation take hold the parties can both propose larger and riskier concession that will bring them back into a productive negotiating relationship in a variation of this approach to de-escalation a negotiator invites the other party to make a small intial concession providing a short list of options from which thast party may choose such a proposal is accompanied by a promise to respond in kind choosing their concession from a list to be provideed by the other party