In a very interesting talk I attended this week titled “She Says / He Says”, Deborah Tannen, Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University in the US, spoke about her research into the different ways in which women and men communicate. She has researched this subject for decades and has published numerous books and articles. As […]
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Thursday 30 June 2016 | Author:
Alex Efthymiades
It’s been a busy week of workplace mediations at Consensio, both in terms of facilitating mediation cases as well as speaking to parties who are attending upcoming mediations. Each party I have called has made the same comment: “I’ve never been through mediation before, so I don’t know what to expect.” As a workplace mediator, this […]
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Thursday 9 June 2016 | Author:
Anna Shields
I was listening to the radio recently and Elton John’s famous song ‘Sorry seems to be the hardest word’ was playing. I hear a lot of apologies in my job as a workplace mediator. So the song made me reflect on whether “sorry” really is such a difficult word to say. The non-apology apology There […]
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Thursday 19 May 2016 | Author:
Anna Shields
For nearly 10 years now, Consensio has supported organisations to embed workplace mediation so that the pattern of over-reliance on formal process is broken and a more collaborative and less punitive method of resolving difficult workplace relationships is used instead. Workplace mediation is on the rise We have noticed a significant increase in organisations using […]
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Wednesday 11 May 2016 | Author:
Alex Efthymiades
You often hear that workplace mediation is a useful tool to resolve conflict, but you rarely hear from the actual parties who go through the mediation process. That’s why we are very excited to share our latest real life workplace mediation case study, which describes the perspective of both parties in conflict who have gone […]
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Thursday 21 April 2016 | Author:
Anna Shields