Comment and Debate: Peer Review Mediation
Here is a fairly new article on peer review mediation and the benefits it might present to conflict resolution. Any thoughts?
Businesses and companies thrive on the cutting edge of talent management and technology resources in the new millennium.
The cutting edge commands performance that stresses participants and can lead to sour notes in the symphony’s concerto. How can we all get along? Perhaps a type of peer review mediation.
The push for prominence on the job creates regular opportunities for conflict to arise, especially with the youthful employees who lack maturity. Like communication conundrums in learning organizations, conflict is an enigma when it comes to transforming it into learning for the organization. Commanding responsiveness of employees only works temporarily and leads to subversive behavior.
Perhaps a fresh approach may give you, the leader or business professional, additional arrows in your quiver to reduce your capacity to sin in change management. Hitting the mark with a tool that allows learning through resolution mitigates mayhem and applies the wisdom of translational leadership. Anyone who has involvement in the end product of any process is a stakeholder.
Peer-based Conflict Resolution
Facilitating the empowerment of stakeholders is the number one task. Developing a peer-based community within the workplace that reduces downtime through effective communication and education of conflict resolution, applied to individual and group environments, is understood to be a primary goal. It is an element of change.
Peer mediation processes have been proven to be effective when stakeholders are trained in the art. There are several reasons that peer mediation implementation would benefit an organization, stakeholders and clients. The objective is to create a collaborative environment that adapts easily. Happy people get more done with less supervision, often to the surprise of management.
Read the full article here on LinkedIn
Opportunity: Lead discussion on “how to grow a successful mediation business”
Mediation is often seen as a niche area of dispute resolution and mediators often find it challenging to promote their services as a result. The PMA would like to organise a forum for experienced and inexperienced mediators to share opinions on best practice in terms of marketing mediation services.
Objectives of the event include:
- Tips on how to strategically market your mediation services
- Real time discussions on the current market with other experienced mediators
- Guidance on how to sell mediation as a tool for dispute resolution to companies and individuals
- Get help on overcoming objections to mediation
Please contact me (mercedes.brown@professionalmediator.org) if you would like to join other high calibre mediators in leading this forum or by presenting on any of the objectives outlined.
Nominate your Mediation Champion of the Year
The Professional Mediator’s Association is once again running the National Mediation Awards to celebrate and reward success in all aspects of workplace, employment, business and consumer mediation. The Awards ceremony will be held on Thursday the 25th September 2014 in London. There are 8 different awards to recognise good practice and hard work. Seven of these you can nominate people for, the eighth is chosen by the PMA president from all of the entries received. Each week we will highlight one of the following awards:
- Best Newcomer to Mediation (for in-house mediation schemes less than 12 months old)
- Mediation Scheme of the Year (for established in-house mediation schemes over 12 months
- Mediation Scheme Co-ordinator of the Year
- In house mediator of the year
- Independent mediator of the year
- Mediation Champion of the year
- Innovation award for On line Dispute Resolution
- President’s Award for overall mediation best practice-chosen by PMA President
Today, the spotlight is on the award for Mediation Champion of the Year
This award is for people who have raised the profile of mediation in some way. We all know that conflict and disputes costs people time, money and relationships and by broadening the reach of mediation into organisations, businesses and communities, we can resolve conflicts and disputes more swiftly and effectively. Tell us how you use mediation in your day to day work? How have you made mediation a more accessible and acceptable form of conflict resolution? Perhaps you have taken an innovative approach to supporting your fellow mediators or those in training. Help us to reward those who are moving mediation into the mainstream and make a nomination today.
Listed below are the criteria the judges will use to award Mediation Champion of the Year
* How do you promote mediation more widely?
* How do you help to embed mediation into your organization’s or communities’ culture?
* How do you support or encourage other mediators?
* How and where do you use mediation skills in your day to day work?
* How do you support and promote the PMA practice standards?
To make your nominations click here
The deadline for nominations is the 18th August
More about The PMA and the awards
The Professional Mediators’ Association (PMA) exists to raise awareness of mediation and to promote excellence in all aspects of business, workplace, and employment and consumer mediation. Find out more about us here
The awards are also sponsored by Executive Grapevine. Further sponsorship opportunities are available at very accommodating rates – please contact Mercedes.brown@professionalmediator.org to find out more or RSVP for the event.
World Conflict Resolution Day 2014 presented by Family Mediation Centre (Staffordshire)
Date : Thursday 16th October 2014 10.00-5.00 (Registration from 9.30)
Venue : The Post House, Greengate Street, Stafford, ST16 2HZ
Audience: Family Mediators, fellow dispute resolution practitioners, young people, CAFCASS, teachers
CPD : 5 for SRA and FMC
Price :£150.00
BACKGROUND:
16th October 2014 is World Conflict Resolution Day and this is our twelfth annual “Developing Mediation Conference.” 2014 is also the 20th Anniversary of the Year of the Family – www.family2014.org – and we are building on last year’s very successful theme of “Children and Young People at the Centre” by taking it a stage further –looking at the active contributions of young people in helping to resolve conflicts in the family and in their peer group at school or college. This unique event seeks to combine the expertise of mediators, teachers and young people in both family and peer mediation, to see what insights and strategies we can share and especially how young people can themselves be participants in the resolution of conflict. Our courses always provide an opportunity for a fresh look at our work through conversation; you can help us by encouraging colleagues from all professions concerned with the empowerment of young people in situations of family or peer group conflict to come along and participate.
Hosts and Facilitators: Lisa Parkinson is a family mediator, trainer, PPC (professional practice consultant) and a founder and Vice-President of the Family Mediators Association (FMA). She is a trainer for Resolution on child consultation and child-inclusive mediation and member of International Social Service’s advisory group on a guide to international family mediation. A new edition of her Family Mediation book was published in 2011. Neil Robinson is an independent trainer, consultant and mediator, and a leading provider of innovative mediation and professional development. He is Visiting Professor at the Law and Business School, Staffordshire University and sits as a Mental Health Tribunal Judge. He is a consultant to Family Mediation Centre Staffordshire.
provides mediation, training and consultancy – contact Emma Turner, Managing Director for details – emma@fmcstaffs.co.uk or ring 01785 747322
COMPONENTS:
We aim to look at young people as active participants in conflict resolution through different filters:
- Duncan Fisher, Kids in the Middle will talk about online peer mentoring for children and young people experiencing parental separation and divorce and we will share ideas and experiences concerning resources and services provided by young people themselves
- Carol Hope, one of the UK’s leading experts on peer mediation will talk about ‘Peer mediation – active learning process’ and will provide insights into the training and experience of peer mediators in schools and colleges
- Our Biennial International Round Table: mediators from eight countries will share experiences of working – directly or indirectly – with children and young people experiencing parental separation and divorce and their contributions to family conflict resolution
- As ever, we will work in groups to discuss how mediators of all generations can work together more closely to share and develop our skills in conflict management and incorporate this learning in our existing practice
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Explore how young people may themselves initiate and manage the resolution of family and other conflict
- Gain a better understanding of the resources that children and young people need to manage the conflicts they encounter at home and in the outside world
- Develop a shared understanding with young people of the skills, knowledge, strategies and interventions that actually work in challenging situations
- Provide messages to Government and others about how to harness and promote the positive energies of young people as active participants in conflict resolution
Kids in the Middle – www.kidsinthemiddle.org.uk – is a new charity and “a place where the experiences of children in separating families can be told, a place where they can find reassurance from their peers that their situation is not their fault and that it is okay to seek support.” All profits and any donations on the day or in support of it will go to KitM .
Pro Bono Mediation opportunity
A member of the public is seeking a mediator to help her in a personal injury claim with a landlord.She is based in Bristol and was advised to try mediation because her attempts to resolve the dispute via no win no fee personal injury claims have left her in debt.
Please contact me via admin@professionalmediator.org if you would be willing to offer your professional services to the client pro bono or if you want more information on this.
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NHS offers mediation service to avoid court
6 August 2014 By John Hyde
The NHS Litigation Authority has announced a new mediation service to speed up the process for resolving claims.
In partnership with the Centre for Dispute Resolution, the service will offer a face-to-face discussion between the healthcare provider and the patient, supported by an independent and accredited mediator.
During the process, legal rights remain intact and either party can proceed to court if they are unhappy with the outcome.
The litigation authority says the scheme will be an independent and voluntary process for resolving claims against health authorities.
Chief executive Catherine Dixon (pictured) said: ‘We hope that it will help patients, their families and NHS staff resolve concerns quickly and cost-effectively whilst also enabling all the parties to meet to have their say without the need to go to court.’
Full article can be found here http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/nhs-offers-mediation-service-to-avoid-court/5042542.article
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