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The Value of Mentorship, Part 2: Shaping the Next Generation of Professional Mediators
The Value of Mentorship, Part 2: Shaping the Next Generation of Professional Mediators
By: Alicia Kuin (IAM Fellow), Lisa Amato (IAM Mentee) and Susan Hammer (IAM Distinguished Fellow, Emerita) As indicated in The Value of Mentorship, Part 1: Reflections on My Journey from IAM Mentee to IAM Fellow, IAM mentorship has been the defining professional...
The Value of Mentorship, Part 1: Reflections on My Journey from IAM Mentee to IAM Fellow
The Value of Mentorship, Part 1: Reflections on My Journey from IAM Mentee to IAM Fellow
By: Alicia Kuin (IAM Fellow, akuin@yorkstreet.ca) At the 2013 IAM Conference in Toronto, the IAM launched a mentorship program and inducted me as one of the organization’s first mentees. This was a pivotal moment in my mediation career, and I want to share with you...
The Path to IAM Membership: The Process
The Path to IAM Membership: The Process
Members of the International Academy of Mediators feel privileged to be peers with many of the most knowledgeable, experienced and dedicated mediators in the world. Many of us, though, may not be sure of the process for becoming an IAM member. What exactly is the process for joining? And what are the minimum requirements for membership?
Bringing qualified new members into the Academy is important to encourage diversity, for long-term sustainability of the organization, and to rejuvenate our collective spirit. We all appreciate having been recruited to join. We now hope to pay that forward in a way that will enable IAM to continue to thrive for decades to come.
Webinar Wednesdays: Seeking Presenters and Shaking Up the 2019 Schedule
Webinar Wednesdays: Seeking Presenters and Shaking Up the 2019 Schedule
The IAM Mentorship Committee began hosting Webinar Wednesdays a few years ago modeled after conference Juntos utilizing the Zoom.com platform. The webinars have been presentation and discussion based.
In 2019, the Webinar Committee is shaking up the format and there will be two different formats for Webinar Wednesdays. One month will be a presentation and discussion based webinar. The next month will be a Professional Development Group (PDG) meeting.
Old Notes, Basic Science, and Understanding Disputes
Old Notes, Basic Science, and Understanding Disputes
By: Jeff Jury, IAM Distinguished Fellow
“Thank God for Dr. Carley’s Integrated Science class at Rockford College,” I thought as I discovered some very old notes during year-end cleaning. They could have named the class (Very) Basic Real Science, So Political Science Majors Can Earn Their Science Credits.
Managing Litigation Risk & Decision-Errors: Mediators Working Inside the Culture of Litigation
Managing Litigation Risk & Decision-Errors: Mediators Working Inside the Culture of Litigation
More than ten years have passed since Randall Kiser and his colleagues documented how often and at what cost attorneys obtain a result worse than what could have been achieved by accepting their opponents’ pre-trial settlement proposal.
Strategy or Bad Habit? Avoiding Lawyers’ Most Common Mediation Pitfalls
Strategy or Bad Habit? Avoiding Lawyers’ Most Common Mediation Pitfalls
You might think lawyers are trying to achieve bad outcomes in mediation, based on approaches like:
1. Insisting on keeping everything confidential from the other side, including not sharing the mediation statement with them.
The Naked Truth about Settling Sexual Harassment Cases in the #MeToo Era: The Public Interest in Disclosure v. the Private Value of Confidentiality
The Naked Truth about Settling Sexual Harassment Cases in the #MeToo Era: The Public Interest in Disclosure v. the Private Value of Confidentiality
Times are changing and both employees and employers are taking note: In 2018, sexual harassment is not tolerated. Between the #MeToo movement and the #TimesUp phenomenon, cases involving sexual harassment are being settled in record numbers.
Can Med-Arb Avoid the Risk that Awards Will Be Annulled?
Can Med-Arb Avoid the Risk that Awards Will Be Annulled?
Mediation followed (if needed) by arbitration – so-called Med-Arb – sounds at first like a good idea: parties know that when they start the process they will end up with a solution, either: (i) the one they work out in the scope of the mediation phase, or failing that (ii) the one that will be imposed upon them in the second phase...
The Words We Use as Mediators
The Words We Use as Mediators
Words are the smallest elements that generate significant meaning. But to what extent do the words we use as mediators matter? At the recent International Academy of Mediators’ conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, we facilitated a session with an experienced group of mediators and tackled that very question.
Why Didn’t Amazon and New York City Mediate? A Pitch for Transactional Mediation - https://t.co/xbrRQZxnY6
The Merits of Med-Arb: If Mediation Fails to Resolve a Dispute, Should Parties Let the Mediator Arbitrate? https://t.co/Nx6NlVQlc9
Listening Skills in Mediation -https://t.co/8H8x7g2bvC
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