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Mediation – an efficient tool for business conflicts
How can mediation help to solve business conflicts? This is an essential question for every rationally thinking businessman in Latvia who is interested in a fast and effective solution of possible disagreements without getting involved in long proceedings before the Latvian courts. Not to mention that the experts are IM members. […]
How many passes? – Train your attention!
Though we always pay attention 🙂 we oversee many things that could help solution finding. It’s not a question of intelligence. Human’s intelligence is not that big anyway. It’s a question of focussing. A video on Youtube proves the phenomenon. You are invited to test your own ability of paying attention. […]
4th EMNI Conference
The European Mediation Network Initiative (EMNI) is organizing their 4th EMNI conference in Bratislava from 18 to 20 April 2013 in cooperation with their Slovakian partners and the Association of International Arbitration. With this conference mediators have another opportunity to meet colleagues and to continue the tradition of the EMNI conferences that we have started in Helsinki and continued in [...]
Mediation is NOT an alternative!
This is a concept emphasizing the way of thinking in mediation. It deals with strategies, where cooperation is in contradiction to confrontation. What do you believe? Do you think we need a mediation to solve this contradiction? Maybe, we do. The idea at least would not be strange. It fits to the way of thinking which is ingeniously provided by [...]
Selecting the Best Mediator
Today I received an e-book from an American Mediator: “How to Select the Best Mediator”. The author is Brandon S. Peters. Maybe better to call that book: “How to Select the best Fitting Mediator”. Now I wonder: What is the best mediator at all? In Germany, the “certified mediator” is seen as a mark of quality. In fact it is [...]
From active to precise listening
Active listening is understood to be the mean of better understanding. The loop goes a bit deeper. The purpose is to mirror and to synchronize communication. Looping provides good results where people feel understood quite well. Is it enough to find solutions where conflicts are limiting perception and thinking? […]