Suppose you want to hire a mediator to help you resolve a conflict that you’re having with an individual or a company, but for various reasons, meeting face-to-face would be difficult. That’s where online mediation comes in.
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Ask A Negotiation Expert: To Get Unstuck, Enlist A Mediator
Most businesspeople understand the value of using mediation to resolve conflicts, but did you know that professional mediators can help you reach agreement during the dealmaking phase? Stephen Goldberg, professor emeritus at Northwestern School of Law, describes how mediators can aid parties in creating value at the negotiating table.
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What Makes a Good Mediator?
What makes a good mediator? And how is it that mediators—who themselves lack any power to impose a solution—nevertheless often lead bitter disputants to agreement?
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How Mediation Works
When negotiators can’t come to agreement but want to avoid an expensive, time-consuming, and potentially rancorous lawsuit, mediation is often their most logical choice. Mediation can help to resolve a wide range of disputes.
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How to Deal with a Difficult Mediator
Francesca Gino, Program on Negotiation faculty member and author of the bestselling book, Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How We Can Stick to the Plan, tackles this question from a Negotiation Briefings reader concerning how to deal with a mediator that is abrasive, dismissive, or even rude.
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How Your Organization Can Benefit from Mediation Techniques
If you manage people, disputes will show up at your door. The marketing VP protests that the budget cap you and your new finance VP proposed is hindering a research initiative you supported. Two young sales representatives are embroiled in a turf war. Your administrative assistant is upset because the HR director won’t approve the … Read More
When a private dispute goes public
This past June, a long-standing family feud erupted in public when Arthur S. Demoulas, an owner of the New England low-price grocery chain Market Basket, fired his cousin Arthur T. Demoulas, also an owner, from his position as the company’s CEO. Many of the company’s 25,000 employees, who had received good wages, bonuses, and profit … Read More
Planting the Seeds of Peace
Tucked away in an idyllic corner of Maine is a summer camp that features many traditional American activities: singing around bonfires, flag raising ceremonies, Color Wars, and chilly dips in the lake. Less ordinary, however, are the daily dialogue sessions, where Israeli and Palestinian campers heatedly discuss their identities, homelands, politics, and pain.
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- Business Negotiations
- In Contract Negotiation, Wise Business Negotiators Sweat the Small Stuff
- Integrative Negotiations, Value Creation, and Creativity at the Bargaining Table
- The Winner’s Curse in Negotiations: How to Avoid It
- Negotiation in Business: Apple and Samsung’s Dispute Resolution Case Study
- Navigating Business Relationships Using Negotiation
- Conflict Resolution
- Conflict Management and Negotiation: Personality and Individual Differences That Matter
- In Conflict Resolution, President Carter Turned Flaws Into Virtues
- Conflict Management: The Challenges of Negotiating Online
- Teach Your Children How to Resolve Conflicts With This New Book
- Why Is Sincerity Important? How to Avoid Deception in Negotiation
- Crisis Negotiations
- Harvard Law Professor Guhan Subramanian Moderates Panel on Difficult Negotiation Scenarios
- Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
- Crisis Negotiation Skills: The Hostage Negotiator’s Drill
- Hostage Negotiation Techniques for Business Negotiators
- What is Crisis Management in Negotiation?
- Dealing with Difficult People
- How to Renegotiate a Bad Deal
- Managing Difficult Employees: Listening to Learn
- Negotiation Strategies: Bernie Sanders’ Pragmatic Approach to Negotiating in the Senate
- Trust and Honesty in Negotiations: Dealing with Dishonest Negotiators
- Managing Difficult Employees, and Those Who Just Seem Difficult
- Dealmaking
- Dispute Resolution
- Diagnose Your Negotiation Techniques and Negotiation Style
- What is Alternative Dispute Resolution?
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Techniques: Negotiating Conditions
- The Importance of Power in Negotiations: Taylor Swift Shakes it Off
- Employee Grievances: Are Most Legal Disputes Resolved in Litigation or Arbitration?
- International Negotiation
- Crisis Negotiation: The European Financial Crisis
- Overcoming Cross-Cultural Barriers to a Negotiated Agreement: Negotiation Ethics and International Negotiations
- How to Negotiate with Difficult People: International Negotiation, and a Refusal to Communicate
- Overcoming Cultural Barriers in Negotiations and the Importance of Communication in International Business Deals
- International Negotiations: North and South Korea Talks Collapse
- Leadership Skills
- Mediation
- The Mediation Process and Dispute Resolution
- Techniques for Leading Multiparty Negotiations: Structuring the Bargaining Process
- Types of Mediation: Choose the Type Best Suited to Your Conflict
- Communicate Your Interests Behind the Deal
- Dispute Resolution: The Advantages of a Neutral Third-Party Mediator
- Negotiation Skills
- Negotiation Training
- Salary Negotiations
- Teaching Negotiation
- Win-Win Negotiations
- Negotiating for a Win Win Coalition at the Bargaining Table
- The Importance of Negotiation for Female Negotiators: Women Should “Negotiate Hard”
- Labor Negotiation Strategies
- Win-Win Negotiations: Should You Consider a Deal Sweetener?
- Google’s Negotiations with Groupon: How Business Negotiators Can Maximize Value Claiming When Engaging in Integrative Negotiations