Texas Conflict Coach Audio Blog by Pattie Porter
March marks the return of Kate Reed and the second season of the USA network television show Fairly Legal. Kate continues to mediate disputes on the small screen between estranged lovers to large corporations. Since the majority of real-life mediations are kept confidential, most folks won’t know what is mediation fact or fiction. Join Pattie Porter and special co-host, Stephen Kotev, as they discuss how Kate solved the problem and what a professional mediator would have done.
In two mediations recently, I ever so gently broached the subject of responsibility. The first mediation was a construction defect case, the second - a joint venture dispute. In private...
By Geoff SharpAmy Lieberman, executive director of Insight Employment Mediation in Scottsdale, Arizona, recently published an intriguing article in the AAA Dispute Resolution Journal, The "A" List of Emotions in Mediation from...
By Victoria PynchonToday's New York Times Business Section had an interesting interview of Anne Berkowitch, co-founder and Chief Executive of "SelectMinds", a social networking company in Manhattan. She talked about the keys...
By Jan Frankel Schau