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Mediation Essentials Toolkit
Mediation Essentials Toolkit: A Practitioner’s Emergency Survival Guide is designed for the legal practitioner seeking usable techniques to enhance mediation tactical advocacy skills.
Attorneys and legal professionals who advocate on behalf of their clients at mediation can draw on the tools this handbook outlines to improve negotiation tactics, train associates on the basics of mediation practice, build trust among fellow lawyers and clients, and generate long-term, positive results.
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Mediation Essentials Toolkit is concise and easy to read. This handbook is written for the busy professional looking for time-tested guidance on how to survive, and thrive, at the negotiating table even when the odds weigh against success. Every case is unique, and each negotiation has its own composition and flavor. Sometimes, the facts of your case are bad and the law is against you. Other times, you have either good facts or good law, but not both. However, if you incorporate the described mediation tools into your legal practice, to whatever degree, you can help your clients optimize their negotiation satisfaction over the long haul.
“Getting into the heads of your adversaries is the key to success, because you won’t settle a case until you satisfy the needs of the other party. So you have to find out what those needs are before you can reach the finish line, and approaching your mediation with a certain curiosity about your opposition can go a long way towards producing an acceptable settlement proposal.”
– Douglas J. Witten
The Stoic Negotiator™
You negotiate every day, like it or not. So why not get more of what you need from your daily negotiations, at home and at work? The Stoic Negotiator is a digital newsletter and online hub dedicated to exchanging ideas and helping us all become better everyday negotiators.
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La Mediación y Casos de Compensación de Trabajadores
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Mediation Essentials Toolkit Clip Promocional (Español)
Podcast: Negotiate Anything
How to Use Negotiation Jiu Jitsu to Resolve Conflicts & Persuade with Doug Witten, Esq.
Podcast: The Learn to Mediate Online Podcast with Susan Guthrie
Insider Tips from an Experienced ODR Professional: What Works and What Doesn’t with Doug Witten, Esq.
Podcast: Resolutions: A Podcast About Dispute Resolution and Prevention
Overcoming Mediation Cultural and Language Barriers: Easier Said Than Done?
