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Four Tips to Manage Loneliness and Conflict

Four Tips to Manage Loneliness and Conflict

Loneliness makes managing conflict even more difficult.  Research shows that a lonely person may experience a shorter attention span, need longer time to process information, struggle to control emotions, want to avoid conflict, and experience feelings of worthlessness.  As human beings we cannot get away from conflict.  Here are four tips to help manage conflict for the lonely people we encounter, including ourselves.

Post-Pandemic ADR:  What’s Next?

Post-Pandemic ADR: What’s Next?

What are the opportunities for mediators, arbitrators, and other ADR professionals using a short horizon of 5 or 10 years?  The last couple of years have been quite an experience and here we are, poised on the edge of what I hope will be the start of the post-pandemic era. 

Note to lawyers: People involved in lawsuits prefer mediation

“People involved in civil lawsuits prefer mediation to nonbinding arbitration”. That finding by a law professor is no surprise to me, nor probably to many other mediators. In my opinion this is valuable information for lawyers seeking to provide the legal services most valuable to their clients.

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