Workplace Mediation Articles
Housing, Transforming Community in Times of COVID-19
Conflict Intervention Service: Transforming Lives, Transforming Affordable Housing, Transforming Community in Times of COVID-19
3rd Key - Education: Teach Mediation as a Core Subject Aligned to Real World Needs
Mediation is rarely taught as a core subject in business schools, law schools and other professional curricula, despite the fact that an increasing number of jurisdictions now provide for some form of court sponsored mediation.
3rd Key-Education: Train Mediators to be Culture-wise, not Culture-blind
Perplexed by the slow uptake of mediation in many places, is it time to wonder whether the mediation field has taken sufficient account of the centrality of culture?
Online Dispute Resolution Pioneer Colin Rule Named Mediate.com CEO
Mediate.com announced today that Colin Rule has been named President and Chief Executive Officer. Jim Melamed, the company’s co-founder and CEO for 25 years, is now chair of the board and general counsel.
Make Your Next Apology Irresistible
Apologies are an important part of conflict resolution--and they are not always easy!
Facilitating Positive Change in the Workplace
Facilitation can be transformative. It permits employers and employees to engage in authentic dialogue and reach collective decisions aligned with their core values.
Getting Started in Mediation
Mediation is a young, exciting, and expanding field of practice.
Negotiating Among Workplace Dictators
“You wouldn’t negotiate with Hitler, would you?”
Interview with John Ford: The Future of Workplace Mediation
This is an interview by Dr. Clare Fowler, current Mediate.com Managing Editor, with John Ford, the first Mediate.com Managing Editor and a well-known HR and workplace mediation specialist.
Setting Up a New Zoom Account for Mediators
This video discusses Zoom settings for mediators, designed to establish rapport and confidentiality.
The Business Case for Neutral Facilitation in the Days of the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
The old curse disguised as a blessing “may you live in interesting times” is showing its teeth in the form of pandemic in these early months of 2020.
Mediating with Zoom
Are your clients asking you to meet online? Here are some suggestions for getting started.
Tools to Use When Peace Comes to Shove
The infamous meeting all those months ago teetered on the brink of actual violence.
Cope with Conflict During COVID-19
Workplace conflict can’t be, ignored, cancelled or put on hold. And there are suddenly all kinds of reasons for employees to feel pushed to their limit.
Navigating a Business Crisis Resulting from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Video
We live in a connected world with intricate networks of supply chain and service relationships and any delay can result in multiple commercial challenges.
Workplace Aggression
Have you ever worked with someone who came across as angry all the time?
Interview with Howard Gadlin
This is a new interview of Howard Gadlin, long-time leading Ombudsman at UCLA and the National Institute of Health (NIH), by Robert Benjamin as part of Mediate's video series "The Future of Mediation and Negotiation in Our Culture, Politics and Society."
Update on CPR’s Employment-Related Mass Claims Protocol
Recently, there have been reports in the news relating to the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution’s (CPR) Employment-Related Mass Claims Protocol (Protocol).
Break & Repair vs. Preventive Maintenance in Workplace Conflict
Are you waiting until relationships are broken to deal with workplace conflict? Tip: this is not the most effective way to deal with disagreements and problems!
How Do You Handle a Pathological Liar at Work?
Have you ever worked with someone who talked about experiences that seemed far-fetched, but you couldn't pin down what was off?
Risk Factors for Workplace Interpersonal Conflict: How to Prevent it Before It Begins
Managers might scoff at the amount of time they have to put toward mitigating workplace interpersonal conflict instead of managing productivity, overseeing innovation, attending important meetings, and networking for individual or team growth.
Overwork and Conflict
Are you feeling angry and put upon at work? Are you having negative interactions and conflict over relatively small matters? Overwork may be the culprit.
Are the Flow of Interruptions in the Workday Actually Reducing Mental as Well as Work Flow?
Reports show that numerous interruptions occur throughout the course of most of our workdays.
Ombudsman vs. Mediator
Howard Gadlin discusses the difference between a mediator's role and an ombudsman's role. Ombudsman uses mediation as a tool, but their role is to assist a group of people within an organization to identify the organization's policies and regulations that are causing internal conflict, then make recommendations.
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