Monthly Archives: March 2012
Resources
Louise Phipps Senft offers a training session at the 2014 Women Presidents Organization conference in New Orleans – a relational approach to conflict for business leaders.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes
Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) refers to any means of settling disputes outside of the courtroom. ADR typically includes arbitration, mediation, early neutral evaluation, and conciliation. As burgeoning court queues, rising costs of litigation, and time delays continue to plague litigants, more states have begun experimenting with ADR programs. Some of these programs are voluntary; others are mandatory. Baltimore Mediation has assisted in and led the design of ADR programs for courts and agencies statewide and nationally.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes
Negotiation consists of our ability to understand other parties’ interests or needs, to be willing to ask questions and clarify issues, and to invite criticism, take risks, and determine standards to measure options. Baltimore Mediation’s mediators will help you reach fair agreements that will hold up over time, and help to preserve current and future family or business relationships.
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Business & Organizational Facilitation
Baltimore Mediation has extensive experience in mediating multi-party disputes and in facilitating divergent group dialogue. Whether a group of six business partners or a host of thirty managers or a community of one hundred stakeholders, Baltimore Mediation has successfully designed, navigated and transformed difficult or potentially divisive interactions into experiences of clarity and strength for all which has promoted informed decision making, stronger relationships and organizational cohesiveness.
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Business & Organizational Facilitation
Baltimore Mediation has worked with numerous boards as they faced disputes among board members and/or difficult decisions about their organization. Board of Directors Facilitation begins with Baltimore Mediation meeting you and a small group to design your facilitation – taking into account goals, stakeholders, flow, barriers to be addressed and desired outcomes. The Facilitated Dialogue itself is typically a half or whole day and usually includes a written summary by our firm of the issues raised, barriers addressed and barriers
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Business & Organizational Facilitation
If your office is looking to grow as a team or work through difficult topics, the expert trainers and facilitators of Baltimore Mediation will work with you to plan your staff meeting and ensure staff are provided the opportunity to participate in an interactive experience. Baltimore Mediation’s approach is to focus on opportunities for quality dialogue and quality decision making. We specialize in helping offices have conversations about topics that are meaningful to their office environment and business goals. We
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Multiparty Mediation
Mediation is often thought of in terms of the resolution of disputes between two private parties, maybe three. However, a mediator can help in a great many situations involving large numbers of parties, and great issues of public importance, particularly before legal action is taken. The mediation of multi-party, multi-issue disputes at the local level such as battles over the design and location of public facilities, the setting of policy priorities, and the specification of health and safety standards, can
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Multiparty Mediation
Mediation for disputes involving civil litigation Baltimore is a necessary consideration before traditional court intervention. The direct connection between the parties and proceeding to the problem solving process creates greater efficiency. Solving the problem decreases transaction costs as well as delays in the judicial system, and the public perception of our legal system as well as the mediation participants view of their lawyers are all enhanced when working with a mediator from Baltimore Mediation.
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Business & Organizational Facilitation
Whether it is a small group meeting to discuss public policy decisions or a large forum for public discourse, Baltimore Mediation can offer facilitation services to lead productive conversations about difficult topics. The Systems Approach and Transformative Model have been proven to be highly successful in bringing clarity and understanding to these disputes, generating creative solutions and helping to maintain important relationships.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Multiparty Mediation
Mediation is often thought of in terms of the resolution of disputes between two private parties, maybe three. However, a mediator can help in a great many situations involving large numbers of parties, and great issues of public importance, particularly before legal action is taken. The mediation of multi-party, multi-issue disputes at the local level such as battles over the design and location of public facilities, the setting of policy priorities, and the specification of health and safety standards, can
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Business & Organizational Facilitation
Mediation is often thought of in terms of the resolution of disputes between two private parties, maybe three. However, a mediator can help in a great many situations involving large numbers of parties, and great issues of public importance, particularly before legal action is taken. The mediation of multi-party, multi-issue disputes at the local level such as battles over the design and location of public facilities, the setting of policy priorities, and the specification of health and safety standards, can
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Business & Organizational Facilitation
Construction projects often involve multiple contractors and subcontractors as well as many divergent factors. Baltimore Mediation can help contractors and others in construction by facilitating contract negotiations and mediating disputes. In contract negotiations, we provide a neutral facilitator who assures that all the right questions are asked and answered in a confidential setting, including clear and practical ‘what-if’ payment terms.
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Business & Organizational Facilitation
Strategic Visioning
It is not unusual for conflict to develop when group members struggle to articulate common ground and a common vision amidst differences and diversity.This lack of clarity almost always derails an organization’s growth, while hindering the ability to adapt to change.
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Business & Organizational Facilitation
Offices with strong teams and supportive working environments are more enjoyable and productive than other offices. Baltimore Mediation will work with you to design a team building day or half-day for your office.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Whether involving two executives or multiple partners, mediation is often used when an event or series of interactions over time occur which create stress or conflict in the working business relationship. It may be the fee formula, the reimbursement structure, handling of a certain client, new business matters previously unanticipated, a change in a business plan, a change in staffing, a personal crisis for one of the professionals or a clash of personalities. It may also be a group of
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
As a dean, department chair, Headmaster or Headmistress or faculty member or teacher, you may contact Baltimore Mediation for those conflicts that arise between faculty, between departments or which have been festering for years and have gone unaddressed. Mediation is an alternative that is private, confidential and focused on quality dialogue and informed decision making.
Example: A faculty member is up for tenure and has complained that she is being discriminated against in the selection process.
Example: For years there have been
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Baltimore partnership dissolutions or potential dissolutions are rarely easy and often highly emotional. Whether involving two or more partners–family members, friends or business associates–mediation is ideal for partnership changes and potential dissolutions. The partners may either no longer be talking productively to each other or they may be getting along well but know they have to face difficult decision making and, in either event, want to ensure and preserve their relationship and personal integrity after the buyout, dissolution or reconfiguration.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Baltimore Mediation’s transformative approach to Baltimore workplace disputes with a focus on the quality of the interaction and dialogue is especially appropriate within an organizational setting that by its very nature has many divergent factors and stakeholders. The organized and cohesive workplace has, by definition, the need for a process which promotes working with each other and maintaining creativity and productivity as well as respectful relationships.
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Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
In every business relationship there is the potential for crises to arise around contractual agreements or daily business operations. This crisis brings about anger, fear, confusion, vulnerability, defensiveness and suspicion between all parties. As importantly, the situation often negatively affects production and often brings work to a standstill in some areas. If this has or is happening within your company, mediation is your best remedy.
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