Florida Mediator Discusses What’s Going on in the Other Room
Mediation is more than just what goes on between the interests, groups, sides or rooms. It is more than the sharing, real negotiation, posturing and debate. It includes what goes on within each room. And perhaps that is the most valuable part of the entire mediation.
Florida mediator discusses conflict by email Part 2
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Emails are useful when you need a record of an interaction, when the…
Florida mediator discusses conflict by email
Part 1 of 2
Email is a great invention. It allows us to communicate quickly and efficiently, and it provides us with written documentation of…
How Clients Think: The Brains Behind Decision Making, Part 2
This series of blog posts about how clients make decisions may help in guiding a client before, during and after a mediation.
Some of the peculiarities of decision making can be explained at least in part by neuroscience, which had its roots not so much in the observation of everyday decision making, but in the observation of aberrant behavior.
How Clients Think: The Brains Behind Decision Making, Part 1
To make their work more effective and efficient, lawyers require some basic understanding of why their clients make the decisions they do and how to better respond and help. There is no need to become a neuroscientist, but some knowledge of this discipline is desirable. Also, we at least can explore some of the factors that drive the decision-making process in broad terms, emphasizing the cognitive aspects but also delving into economic principles and behavioral psychology. This series of blog posts may help in guiding a client before, during and after a mediation.