In the last three decades, mediation has been increasingly used in the United States and elsewhere. Much has been written about the philosophical underpinnings and ethical dilemmas of mediation as well as its applications both within judicial systems and beyond the limits of these systems. However, some very basic challenges remain: How can entrenched positions, strong emotions, and cultural differences be dealt with? Mediation expertise is truly achieved when a mediator learns to overcome these challenges through experience and intuition. To speed up the learning curve of mediation expertise, Jean Poitras, PhD, and Susan Raines, PhD have benchmarked the mediation process in Expert Mediators: Overcoming Mediation Challenges in Workplace, Family, and Community Conflicts. Tapping the experience and wisdom of over 175 highly qualified mediators from across different realms of the mediation practice (e.g., family mediation, workplace mediation, commercial mediation) and across geographic regions (e.g., U.S., Australia, Europe, Israel, Canada), this book integrates best practices in order to improve the performance of mediators. For each proposed strategy, this book discusses conditions under which each practice should be used as well as approaches to mitigate risks associated with using each strategy and technique.

All managers are conflict managers, and Conflict Management and Leadership for Managers, Third Edition coaches current and future organizational leaders with the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent and manage every common source of conflict faced at work. This text is divided into three sections: conflict management and collaboration basics, strategies for preventing conflicts inside your work teams and organizations, and processes and skills for enhancing relationships with external stakeholders. This comprehensive, all-in-one resource offers skill-based exercises, self-assessments for role understanding and goal-setting, and a variety of learner-friendly tools. Informed by decades of experience working with organizations of all types, sizes, missions, and cultures, Susan S. Raines demonstrates how effective and creative managers positively address conflict to enhance collaboration and mission achievement, thrive in rapidly changing environments, and craft a positive brand image for both one’s organization and their own career. Updates to the Third Edition: Greatly expanded coverage of DEI-related conflict management woven into all sections for greater racial, ethnic, gender and sexuality, cultural, and religious sensitivity and situational specificity coverage. Greater coverage of the roles of social media and technology in increasing and decreasing conflict and suggested technological strategies to utilize and/or mitigate increasingly modernizing work communication methods and advancement challenges. More coverage of distributed hybrid workplace issues around team cohesion, employee motivation, and connectedness relevant to industry-wide environmental changes initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Increased coverage of informal conflict and dispute resolution that are more common and nuanced, providing more granular application of skills and strategies. Improved art program for visual learners. Updated relevant court rulings and federal policies to stay in step with current legal best-practice.

All managers are conflict managers, and Conflict Management and Leadership for Managers, Third Edition coaches current and future organizational leaders with the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent and manage every common source of conflict faced at work. This text is divided into three sections: conflict management and collaboration basics, strategies for preventing conflicts inside your work teams and organizations, and processes and skills for enhancing relationships with external stakeholders. This comprehensive, all-in-one resource offers skill-based exercises, self-assessments for role understanding and goal-setting, and a variety of learner-friendly tools. Informed by decades of experience working with organizations of all types, sizes, missions, and cultures, Susan S. Raines demonstrates how effective and creative managers positively address conflict to enhance collaboration and mission achievement, thrive in rapidly changing environments, and craft a positive brand image for both one’s organization and their own career. Updates to the Third Edition: Greatly expanded coverage of DEI-related conflict management woven into all sections for greater racial, ethnic, gender and sexuality, cultural, and religious sensitivity and situational specificity coverage. Greater coverage of the roles of social media and technology in increasing and decreasing conflict and suggested technological strategies to utilize and/or mitigate increasingly modernizing work communication methods and advancement challenges. More coverage of distributed hybrid workplace issues around team cohesion, employee motivation, and connectedness relevant to industry-wide environmental changes initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Increased coverage of informal conflict and dispute resolution that are more common and nuanced, providing more granular application of skills and strategies. Improved art program for visual learners. Updated relevant court rulings and federal policies to stay in step with current legal best-practice.

In the last three decades, mediation has been increasingly used in the United States and elsewhere. Much has been written about the philosophical underpinnings and ethical dilemmas of mediation as well as its applications both within judicial systems and beyond the limits of these systems. However, some very basic challenges remain: How can entrenched positions, strong emotions, and cultural differences be dealt with? Mediation expertise is truly achieved when a mediator learns to overcome these challenges through experience and intuition. To speed up the learning curve of mediation expertise, Jean Poitras and Susan Raines have benchmarked the mediation process in Expert Mediators: Overcoming Mediation Challenges in Workplace, Family, and Community Conflicts. Tapping the experience and wisdom of over 175 highly qualified mediators from across different realms of the mediation practice (e.g., family mediation, workplace mediation, commercial mediation) and across geographic regions (e.g., U.S., Australia, Europe, Israel, Canada), this book integrates best practices in order to improve the performance of mediators. For each proposed strategy, this book discusses conditions under which each practice should be used as well as approaches to mitigate risks associated with using each strategy and technique.