Nonverbal Communication Can Speak Louder Than Words
Negotiation and mediation are all about communication.
Negotiation and mediation are all about communication.
No one is perfect. We all get upset. But some of us get upset more often than others.
Attorneys who use the mediation process may focus on the more immediate benefits (ideally a case settles, and a file closes), but there are more extensive benefits as well that all participants may benefit from.
The Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution is very excited to announce that the 2017 Jed D. Melnick Symposium, Persistent Human Divides: Creative Initiatives for Communication, Collaboration, and Cohesion, will be available to live stream on November 13, 2017!
Thinking this way doesn’t mean living a fantasy life and avoiding problems or cutting yourself off from the rest of the commonly less than positive world. More positive thinking can result in less stress in your life and consequently better health.
You may want or need to accomplish something, but that’s dependent on getting information or an action by another party.
We value our relationships, and in the back of our minds the thought of reciprocity may be bouncing around (“Maybe I’ll have to ask this person for something in the future…”) but we can’t please everyone all the time.