Monday May 30, 2011 at 11:48am
A professional whom I respect is Tim Kevan who has recently seen his latest book, Law and Peace published in paperback.
From a personal perspective I have worked with Tim in helping create a mediation resource for his business,Law Brief Publishing. Tim was a barrister for many years but now has writing and business interests. He has been supportive of my work.
The book, which is breezy and light is Law and Peace and focuses on the trials and tribulations of barrister,....
Monday May 9, 2011 at 9:58pm
There is an exorable force towards the use of mediation within Court processes within the UK, Europe and beyond.
Little wonder, many governments are needing to save and the appeal of using mediation is to save Court costs and government exchequers their pennies, pounds, euros and dollars.
Within different areas of law, beit commercial, employment or family, we are heading to compulsion of mediation.
Yet, not everyone is happy.
In Italy, a new law requiring media....
Monday February 28, 2011 at 1:54pm
According to the High Performance Unit being a leader involves more than rallying the troops, MBA qualifications and a reputation for toughness.
The greatest leaders evolve others in their organisation to be even greater than themselves. The best leaders surround themselves with individuals to build teams that operate more effectively than one individual would alone.
But building the most effective team ensures that decisions needed at that top level – the pinnacle of the organisation,....
Thursday December 9, 2010 at 10:53am
Public sector organisations around the world face unprecedented pressure to improve service quality while progressively lowering their costs. At the same time, they are expected to become more accountable, customer focused and responsive to stakeholder needs. In the UK the new coalition Government has embarked on an unprecedented public sector funding cull which is already resulting in wide scale change programmes, job losses, fear and anger amongst public sector workers. Let’s not underes....
Friday November 5, 2010 at 12:17pm
Daniel H. Pink, is the author of the bestselling A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation.
Both books were excellent.
His latest book, Drive explores what truly motivates us and how we can use that knowledge to work smarter and live better. Most of us believe that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is with external rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. Pink says in, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,the secret to high performance and satis....
Friday October 15, 2010 at 11:17am
I am pleased to inform clients and readers that Human Law Mediation is going to produce a White Paper on how to cope with redundancy and change programmes without staff disputes. This White Paper provides a complete road map for bodies who are going through redundancy programmes and other major change as a result of public sector funding cuts.
It discusses the key steps you can take to a pain free solution to public sector funding cuts. It includes details of how you can set....
Wednesday June 9, 2010 at 4:09pm
A recent CBI Survey has shown that the rate of employee absence has fallen recently to the lowest levels since 1987. Employees still however take on average 6.4 days off through illness each year, accounting for 180 million sick days in total. The costs to companies and organisations are estimated at a staggering £16.8bn. It does make you wonder with the World Cup looming whether absences might start to increase if England progress in the competition and people start skipping work to watch....
Monday November 16, 2009 at 1:48pm
A totally bizarre story on the BBC website.
A 13-year-old paperboy in Bedfordshire who takes home £6.53 a week is to be offered a redundancy package. Kane Middleton received a formal letter which told him he was being laid off from his round in Clophill. It outlined a redundancy package of "one week's pay in lieu of notice, which equates to £6.93 (subject to tax and NI)". His employer is Letterbox Direct.Speaking about receiving the letter, he said: "I got ....
Monday October 5, 2009 at 8:40am
Information has recently emerged on the number of Employment Tribunal claims being lodged.
As usual there is good and bad news.
The good news is the number of claims accepted by employment tribunals has fallen by a fifth. Employment tribunals accepted 151,000 claims in 2008-09, a decrease of 20% on the 2007-08 figure, latest figures by the Tribunals Service have shown. Multiple claims accepted for 2008-09 fell by 13% on the previous year, but this figure excluded the number of airline employee....
Tuesday September 29, 2009 at 10:54am
According to People Management an in-house mediation service at East Lancashire NHS Teaching Primary Care Trust has reduced formal dispute cases by 60 per cent in its first year, PM has learnt. The trust trained 15 members of staff, including front-line workers, managers and union stewards, as mediators and appointed a dispute resolution lead to work alongside HR to coordinate the service.
I do some mediation training of the same sort . Provided it is managed carefully organisat....
Tuesday August 18, 2009 at 2:35pm
There is an excellent article written by Alex Locke for the ELA Briefing on the issue of employment judicial mediation.
We now learn via Alex the following.
There are very few employment judges trained as mediators. In one of the London regions only two judges have been trained.
There appears to be inadequte facitiies such as more than 1 room available.
There is a lack of guidance given to parties which prohibits the judges from giving a steer to the parties.
Oh dear.
First of all....
Saturday August 8, 2009 at 7:39am
With some rather positive headlines about the economy such as risining stockmarket, house prices and services activity there are some that think the worst is behind us and we can look forward to a new brighter era.
Sorry to be depressing but that it is not my view.
There is still too much debt in the economy and for individulas, too much emphasis on high house prices, the Bank of England has just had to do more Quantatitive Easing and the redundancies have not worked....
Thursday June 4, 2009 at 2:44pm
I've just published a new White Paper Negotiating for Excellent Results which has gone down really well with delegates in a recent mediation training course I ran for managers.
Containing details of the skills you need to negotiate and suggestions on how you can develop them as well as negotiating tips and examples from expert negotiators it's a great resource and best of all you can download it for FREE.
I'm gathering feedback - so if you do download please let me know what you think and te....
Monday June 1, 2009 at 8:55am
Mediation is no panacea but The Salt Lake Tribune (of all things) has an example of how a good mediator can do the business in even the most complex disputes.As this article shows, a mediator was able to engineer a mediated settlement in a very difficult matter.43 lawyers were packed into a hotel conference room last November. And that was just the defendants' legal corps in three wrongful-death and personal-injury civil lawsuits triggered by the 2007 American Crandall Canyon mine disaster.....
Wednesday May 20, 2009 at 1:06pm
This is a reproduced version of my firm's latest ezine.
Whether we like it or not we are all going to experience conflict in our lives. This may be with people we work with, live with or just encounter on a day to day basis. A survey last week claimed Britain is the angriest nation in Europe, which surely can’t help and the current economic situation is only making conflict more likely in the business environment. The wave of redundancies sweeping across the nation is forcing a number of ....
Monday May 18, 2009 at 9:41am
Human Law Mediation has just published a new FREE White Paper - Negotiating for Excellent Results.
It's a must read for anyone trying to get the best out of business transactions or facing difficult negotiations with employees, customers or suppliers.As well as providing a 10 step plan for effective negotiations which enable you to negotiate with power and persuasion the White Paper has useful advice on when to try and negotiate yourself and when to step away and seek professional help.
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Thursday February 12, 2009 at 1:11am
The Human Law Blog has moved to be a part of our main Human Law Mediation website.
You can still view the Human Law blog archive from before 12th February 2009 here.....