Mediation Training Posts

Recently I was doing some mediation and negotiation training for some lawyers and we came to the issue of the opening session of the mediation. One City lawyer was explaining to me that he had recently done an opening session where he made a significant concession out of the blue. It had not been put in the pre-mediation statement or otherwise before the mediation, but had been made to the other side's face at the opening session. The concession had been done....

As Local Authority News reports, thirteen districts in Essex have joined the county council to form a new partnership to provide legal services. The context is that all public services face a major challenge in the years ahead, as resources become scarcer – and local government will feel this as acutely as any.  Essex Legal Services Partnership has created a new model for local government services, which enables the teams to improve services to clients and communities. The new way o....

According to People Management an in-house mediation service at East Lancashire NHS Teaching Primary Care Trust has reduced formal dispute cases by 60 per cent in its first year, PM has learnt. The trust trained 15 members of staff, including front-line workers, managers and union stewards, as mediators and appointed a dispute resolution lead to work alongside HR to coordinate the service. I do some mediation training of the same sort .  Provided it is managed carefully organisat....

There is an excellent article written by Alex Locke for the ELA Briefing on the issue of employment judicial mediation. We now learn via Alex the following. There are very few employment judges trained as mediators. In one of the London regions only two judges have been trained. There appears to be inadequte facitiies such as more than 1 room available. There is a lack of guidance given to parties which prohibits the judges from giving a steer to the parties. Oh dear. First of all....

I have recently just finished training 36 people at a leading London Council into becoming mediators. It is quite satisfying to see a number of people develop the skills which will enable them to become in-house mediators within their organisation. The goal is simple. By the staff being trained up they will deal with a number of grievances and hopefully lead to a positive resolution and save Employment Tribunal costs. The course was 2 days and obtains supportive feedb....

My firm has just finished conducting some mediation and negotiation training for some staff at a leading London council and looking to develop their negotiation skiils. Now one of the intriguing themes which we explored was how to break impasse in negotiations. What do you do as mediator when things stall and the mediation looks like hitting the rocks? Here are some tips: 1 Hold a summit meeting - Get the parties or their representatives together and impress....

From my point of view we are now entering a busier time of year as I start to do more mediation seminars. In particular March will witness my doing mediation training with MBL Seminars and start doing seminars on mediation for Employment lawyers and Commercial lawyers. I have worked with MBL Seminars for 3 years and they always shown a lot of flair and imagination. In March we have dates lined up in both London and Leeds and it should be fun.  The specific dates are: Wednesday 11....