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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
The protection of individuals against discrimination is the goal of many existing federal and state laws, as well as countless employment dispute resolution programs. While there are overt acts of discrimination, acts of subtle or unconscious discrimination are prevalent and just as damaging. Worse, because these acts are largely unintentional, they usually don’t fall under existing antidiscrimination laws. It is this type of discrimination for which the early use of mediation can be very helpful and effective.
Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Disputes often occur in the construction industry. Missed deadlines and contract infringements wreak havoc on business and long-lasting working relationships. Parties within the dispute risk future business and customers due to impasse over facts and legal procedures that result in costly legal battles. Focus is no longer on project completion but on interest-based disputing. Continuing in this manner could have devastating effects that are irreparable.
Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Mediation in hospitals or malpractice disputes not only helps to settle claims before they go to court, but also provides the forum for patients and doctors to share all the facts and their feelings about the situation – something that could never happen in a court case.
Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
As the population ages, it is more common than ever to hear that a friend or family member is struggling with difficult care-giving decisions for an older loved one in a nursing home or care facility. While mediation has proven to be an effective process for clarifying issues and settling other types of disputes, until now institutionalized adults and their families facing conflict have not enjoyed access to the mediation process. Long term care mediation encourages conflict resolution through neutral
Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Ranging in complexity, real estate disputes may include disagreements between real estate owner/real estate developer; homeowner/homeowner association; property owner/city government; landlord/tenant; buyer/seller; broker/agent; broker/broker; and contractor/client, to name a few. Real estate disputes usually involve two or more parties and often include the attorneys of the disputing parties. Resolution of these disputes through the legal system is often time consuming and lengthy in nature. Most real estate matters are time of the essence situations.
Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Mediation for businesses and the workplace is a process that more and more companies are using to resolve, in an efficient and peaceful manner, client-customer and stakeholder disputes and employee complaints before they become broken relationships or formal grievances. Organizational facilitation relies on the same principles of mediation to resolve disagreements and disputes between groups, departments and other bodies.
Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
Baltimore Mediation offers a transformative approach to congregational and church conflict. This approach is both client centered and organizationally oriented, recognizing the need for a healthy organization to function well within as well as with outside constituencies. The focus is to create opportunities within the system for one-on-one interactions as well as group interactions that foster a greater degree of satisfaction with the communication and, in turn, promote “upstream effects” for the whole which include confidence in the responsiveness of
Workplace & Commercial Disputes - Mediation
The use of mediation in Baltimore family business conflicts and estate planning matters can improve client satisfaction, reduce the probability of litigation, and help estate-planning attorneys avoid a malpractice claim. Family relations can often be strained, from either long-standing disagreements, to feelings of distrust or competitiveness. Trying to make legal decisions without a neutral party, especially at an emotionally charged time, runs the risk of poor decision making.
Workplace & Commercial Disputes
The role of a mediation coach varies, depending of course, on the circumstances and client’s objectives. A model found helpful by this writer has a behavioral approach. For instance, one of the functions of a mediation coach in preparing a party for mediation is to help the client anticipate possible reactions from the other side and engage him or her to practice effective ways to respond. Coaches act as “the other side” and provide feedback that helps the person in
MEDIATION WORKS FOR COUPLES AND FAMILIES WANTING TO PRESERVE THEIR MARRIAGE BUT FACED WITH CONFLICT, DIFFICULT OR COMPLEX CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE DECISIONS NEED TO BE MADE
When couples or families desire to stay together, but are faced with difficult or complex circumstances challenging their relationship, or creating stress points or fractures on the quality of their interaction, mediation can provide a breath of fresh air for the situation.
What is facilitation?
Facilitation is a process for groups of people who need to have dialogue about topics or issues that are of high priority to them. There does not have to be a conflict involved, but there are usually different points of view that emerge which are then clarified. Or there may be hard, complicated or difficult matters to discuss, or critical decisions to be made. Facilitation provides the opportunity for all to speak, for all to hear others speak,
What does a mediator do?
A Baltimore Mediation mediator works on behalf of all participants present to have quality discussion to achieve greater clarity and understanding of a situation and to reach the goals of mediation. The mediator listens to the issues of concern, provides summaries and asks questions to help participants work with each other to decide the appropriate solution. The mediator promotes informed decision making and better understanding of the issues, what is important to all those participating
MEDIATION WORKS FOR DIVORCED PARENTS FACING CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES
When post-divorce changes in parenting arrangements or child or spousal support are desired by one or both parties due to significant changes in circumstances such as relocations, new living or work situations, or changes in the lives of the children, parents welcome having a safe, impartial environment to discuss these types of issues.
MEDIATION WORKS FOR PARENTS AND TEENS NEEDING TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER AND CREATE NEW WAYS OF COMMUNICATION AND RELATING
It is often difficult for all parties during the teenage years to maintain the relationship they desire with each other while also balancing responsibility, independence, and newly discovered boundaries. When families, parents, and teenagers find that their relationship has changed and has become stressful or a battleground, mediation is an ideal forum for communication and goal clarification.