More and more corporate executives are turning to etiquette courses or image consultants to improve their professional standing. “Good behaviour is good business and pays off in the end. It can be reflected in the bottom line.”
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More and more corporate executives are turning to etiquette courses or image consultants to improve their professional standing. “Good behaviour is good business and pays off in the end. It can be reflected in the bottom line.”
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In its April 5, 2013 edition, The Economist had an interesting article in its Science and Technology section about how we judge time. Entitled “Yesterday Came Suddenly”, it discusses a study to be published in Psychological Science indicating that we view the future as being closer than the past … So, if the future is emotionally and psychologically closer to us than the past, how does this effect negotiations and mediation?
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Parenting author and humorist Kathy Buckworth’s most recent book is “I Am So The Boss of You: An 8-Step Guide to Giving Your Family the ‘Business’.” In it, she focuses her attention on a systematic and bureaucratic approach: leading your family as if it were a corporation with mom in charge. She asks, “Sound too rigid to you?”
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New survey on an individual’s relationship with motivation, money and recognition finds that 70% of survey respondents reported their most meaningful recognition “had no dollar value” – a substantial increase from 57% in a similar survey 2007. This study may have implications for the mediation world if feelings and respect are often equally as important as the monetary settlement offer.
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Whether you are recruiting a new colleague, naming a product, or planning an investment, there are no easy decisions. Should you analyze the options slowly and systematically, or stop thinking so hard and just go with your gut?
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Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court made it decision in Oxford Health Plans LLC v. Sutter. The unanimous ruling may have been a bit of a let down with the Court resolving the case on the simple principle: “when you ask for arbitration, that’s exactly what you get. If, after the fact, you don’t like what you asked for, tough.”
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In a new case that reminds federal judges everywhere to sing “I’ve got the power!” like C&C Music Factory, the Fifth Circuit reiterates that federal courts can stay related state court actions if necessary to “protect or effectuate” an order compelling arbitration.
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This weekend, local community hosts music event to raise between $5,000 and $10,000 to benefit the Washington County Community Mediation Center, which helps resolve disputes at no cost to Washington County residents. Jack Carpenter executive director of the Mediation Center says, “we’re not sure how many people will attend” since this is the first year for Hagerstock.
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Recently, the African Union mediation provided an “urgent proposals” to Khartoum and Juba “in order to overcome the recent tensions between the two capitals that led Sudan to freeze the implementation of a cooperation treaty.”
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Couples struggling with marital problems can utilize the Supreme Court mediation centre. One couple on the edge of filing divorce proceedings gave it a try: “No solution appeared in sight after the first half-a-dozen sessions but by the eighth, it had become clear there was no real dispute apart from ego clashes. The mediator talked to the couple individually and jointly. The differences gradually narrowed down.”
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There was talk around the ABA Dispute Resolution Conference this week that the demand for mediation services may be declining … I think there is a larger trend going on, one that actually points in the opposite direction. I see evidence that the values behind mediation — values such as collaboration, interest analysis, problem-solving, participation, self-determination—are starting to permeate the culture.
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As you may know, social media is changing the face of modern marketing. CMOs or chief marketing officers are starting to invest in social media platforms in order to promote products and services. Yet not every social media Website can offer what CMOs are looking for. Here is a guide to the top social media sites and what they can do for CMOs.
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How does a life-long solo act join a creative team? Comedian and author Baratunde Thurston walks us through his own journey from lone standup comic to Director of Digital at The Onion. He shares his insights for pushing projects to completion and the lessons he learned while working with skeptical teammates. The key, he says, is to not confuse using tools with creativity. After sharing lessons from his own career, Thurston recaps the 2012 99U Conference the only way he knows how: by making us laugh.
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County in Ohio recently started a mediation program to help resolve property-value complaints. “The program is expected to help cut down on the backlog of property owner complaints currently pending before the County Board of Revision.”
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Arbitration is the latest trend in resolving contractual disputes which is hailed as the less expensive, out-of-court option. Twenty years ago, arbitration was thought of as a niche area of the law but now many attorneys practice arbitration and it has become an important and growing revenue stream for many law firms.
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For many years, organizations have included arbitration clauses in their agreements with customers, employees and other businesses. However, there both good reasons to arbitrate your disputes—along with some less compelling ones.
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Communication has changed over the years in the world of business: “Some leaders remain wishing and hoping for the way things were, with top down approaches and controlled messaging. But, it doesn’t matter what you think of anonymous blog comments, social media avenues, texting, tweeting, or video posting; technology that provides instant access to alternative points of view and influence is here to stay. Unfortunately, more ways doesn’t mean more results.”
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It’s the disputing, not the dispute. Interaction matters, even more than the “subject” of the dispute. As this example shows….
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China has dismissed calls for arbitration to resolve the disputes relating to Asian waters vital to world trade after the U.S. and Japan vowed to resist attempts to seize contested territory by force. “The world’s biggest economies have been unable to agree on rules for operating in the waters and resolving territorial disputes as China’s neighbors grow more concerned over its military might.”
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Last week, California judge ordered Monster Beverage to mediation which is set for November 26 in a wrongful death suit that claims that Monster Beverage energy drinks were responsible for a teen’s death for a 14 year old girl in Maryland.
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Governor John Kitzhaber, legislators, and civic leaders urge Salem Health and its dispute with Willamette Valley Community Health (the CCO that Salem Health belongs to and which it helped form) to embrace mediation given the overall disagreement and the significant impact and implications at stake for both the organizations and Oregon state as a whole.
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Possibly my favourite soundbite of this morning’s sessions was this comment from the floor when delegates were discussing standards and good practice. Of all the discussion around how prescriptive or flexible mediation training could or should be, this phrase seems to neatly summarise one of the big dilemmas facing anyone attempting to develop an international standard of training provision.
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African Union’s United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) recently organized an event to bring together participants to promote women’s representation in traditional mediation mechanism as well as to implement international instruments to promote women’s rights and develop strategic plans on women’s participation in security and peace.
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The current medical debt crisis in the United States is overburdening bankruptcy court.[1] Debtors are filing bankruptcy because they are unable to pay their medical debts.[2] An insurance mandate will not provide enough assistance for those with insurance and without insurance to eliminate all medical debt and avoid bankruptcy.
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The conference ended this week titled “The EU as a Peacemaker – Enhancing EU Mediation Capacity” where the keynote speakers agreed to “continue to develop the peace mediation capabilities of the European External Action Service rather than move directly to establish the proposed European Institute of Peace.”
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The term mediation is in many ways vague. There are different approaches used by mediators: “Mediation could be evaluative, facilitative, or transformative.” There are also different types of mediation depending on the stage of litigation: “There are differences between pre-filing and post-filing mediations.” There are different requirements for mediation: “Is the mediation voluntary or mandatory, as it is when parties file a Request for Order Regarding Child Custody and/or Visitation agreement.”
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Thousands of foreclosures filed against homeowners in the past three years are sitting in limbo. These cases will be stuck for a while due to the fact that banks are not filing the required court papers that trigger a homeowner’s right to meet with a lender in a court-supervised settlement conference.
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With the increase of environmental disputes, mediation can be used to reduce the delay, expense and backlog of cases pending in courts. The growing public demand to protect the environmental is partly why environmental disputes continue to rise and some studies show that environmental conflicts have emerged as key issues challenging global security.
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Tech columnist David Pogue shares 10 simple, clever tips for computer, web, smartphone and camera users. And yes, you may know a few of these already — but there’s probably at least one you don’t.
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Larry Cohen joins Teddy Snyder, Esq. and guest Judge George W. Mason to discuss how mediation can be used to help resolve workers’ compensation claims including “the process of setting up mediation in a workers’ compensation claim, the parties involved and ultimately the role of the structured settlement broker and mediator.”
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