Monthly Archives: September 2018
Blog
When you’re trying to mediate a workplace conflict, it involves more strategy than you may think. The average manager spends roughly 25% to 40% of their time handling workplace conflicts, which equals one to two days of every work week. One of the most effective ways to mediate workplace disputes is by using the relational process. In the relational process, the mediator should foster and model the three R’s: respect, recognition, and reflection.
Respect
In any interaction between human beings, respect is
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About Us
Baltimore Mediation takes a relational approach to conflict, disputes, and difficult situations by convening participants and helping prepare them for quality interaction and face-to-face dialogue so they can interact and negotiate on more authentic terms with the support and presence of a third party neutral. The firm was the first transformative mediation ADR firm in the U.S. Baltimore Mediation’s philosophy is that people have the capacity to change the quality of their difficult or stagnated or
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Press and Publications
Below is a sample list of the many speeches and presentations given through the last 25 years.
Public Appearances
Book Signing, Gasparillo Book Club, Tampa, Florida
Keynote Speaker, Multicare Health System, Annual Leadership Breakfast, Tacoma, Washington
Keynote Speaker, Multicare Health System, Presidential Awards, Spokane, Washington
Speaker, Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law, and Politics, National Conference, Washington, D.C.
Speaker, International City Manager’s Association, National Conference, Baltimore, Maryland
Keynote Speaker, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Women on the Move Event
Keynote Speaker, American Bar
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We face a crisis of well-being in the legal system which causes great suffering in society and throughout the legal profession. Thatmay be why many of us have chosen to shift our legal work to dispute resolution. But even for dispute resolvers, we still face seemingly insurmountable adversarial obstacles, all of which takes a toll on well-being. If this resonates for you, then you may be very interested in a response that fosters a paradigm shift from what I call
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Whether you’re a business owner or organization leader, there are five main components to relational leadership. These components are inclusion, empowerment, purposefulness, ethical behaviors, and process orientation. When you bring in keynote speakers to give a talk to your group, they encourage these components and more to bring your employees together so that they can reach a common goal.
What Are The Benefits Of Keynote Speakers?
In any setting where many people work to achieve one common goal, they need something to
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Blog, Being Relational
I am just returning from a conference with the International Academy of Mediators in Scotland. I always feel like I’m with my tribe when I am among IAM practitioners. You know what I mean, that feeling you have too when you resonate with a group of people, a group that is easy to be with because you experience resonance, you vibe with each other, you like each other, you have things in common. I bet at least one personal or
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Blog, Being Relational
Inspired by the late Martin Luther King, Jr, whose life we remembered last month, 50 years after he was assassinated, I have been
thinking deeply about Relational Practices and how Dr. King’s message and life was a model of being relational. Dr. King stirred us with his words, “Time is cluttered with the wreckage of communities, which have surrendered to hatred and violence. For the salvation of our nation and the salvation of mankind, we must follow another way. This does
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Blog, Being Relational
If at first you don’t succeed… That’s right, “…try, try again.” Remember your grandmother’s old adage? And it’s so true for being relational. Especially for lawyers. So often the knee jerk response to other’s conflict is to shake our heads, join, or, at the request of a potential client, file a lawsuit, or, perhaps to write a letter on behalf of the client to the person whom they feel has aggrieved them. That letter often carries with it the thin
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Blog, Being Relational
Have you seen the ABA’s recent report from the Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being (LWB)? Sobering. The Report says we have a lot of unhappy lawyers in our profession. It also reports that lawyer unhappiness is resulting in staggering rates of depression, alcoholism, suicide and other mental and emotional ailments. Serious stuff.
I recall testifying in our Maryland state legislature back in the late 1980’s on the issue of child support collection, making a case for why recalcitrant and delinquent payors,
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Blog, Being Relational
Tina Turner belted out in her 1984 lyric, What’s love got to do with it? You remember, right? The sizzly song about the crazy confusing experience of strong emotional and physical desires butting up against the rational protect yourself mental act. We can bet that when our Relational Mindset is in alignment with our behavior and actions that we too will experience that crazy push-pull. Well, maybe not quite as steamy as Tina Turner but definitely real, with our active
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