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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 […]

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 […]

I have read with interest recent reviews of Robert Colville’s new book The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster, which is released today. The book looks at how technology and our insatiable desire for convenience have speeded up every part of our lives. Our walking speeds have increased 10% since the 1990s, […]

HR Review just published a special edition on Employee Engagement which featured an article written by Consensio titled “Conflict Management: Another Answer to Employee Engagement?”  Employee engagement has been a hot topic in HR circles for a long time, but rarely is the connection made between a healthy conflict organisation and how this contributes to […]

As workplace mediators, empathy is at the heart of our work. We were therefore very excited to be able to attend a conference this week at the British Academy in London which presented cutting-edge neuroscience research into how empathy can promote dialogue and understanding in conflict zones, with a particular focus on the Middle East. Empathy […]