In order to survive and prosper in a very competitive market and in an environment characterized by changes and uncertainty like nowadays, the organizations need to be able change itself. The market and the environment are changing faster demanding the organizations to be more agile in their changes. In the process to implement the change there are a lot of negotiations that define the course of what had been planed before. So if the organization doesn t have employees with negotiation skills, the change might take longer to happen and it might not come as planed. This work s theme is about the way the professional are negotiating nowadays in their work and has the main goal of identifying negotiation strategies and tactics that the professionals use the most in the different contexts. Although the interest for this theme is very significant in the international management literature it have not been significantly broached in researches in Brazil. The research involved interviews with 13 professionals with different jobs and working in different markets. The results show that depending on the context there is a variety of strategies and tactics among the professionals investigated. It was possible to identify a group of aspects perceived by the individuals as important for the success of the negotiation, going through the preparation phase until situations when there is an impasse or when the person has to leave the process.