by Anna Denton | May 14, 2015 | Articles, Mediation, Training
In this week where Andrew Strauss and Kevin Pietersen showed they clearly can’t work together, a recent CIPD press report referred to some research that they’ve done called ‘Getting under the skin of workplace conflict’ which found that a quarter of us believe that...
by Anna Denton | Jan 8, 2015 | Articles, Mediation
Three times in the last week, but from different sources, I’ve seen commentary by mediators expressing frustration at organisations failing to get mediators involved until relations between the parties have virtually broken down. I myself feel their pain as often,...
by Anna Denton | Jan 17, 2014 | Comment, Mediation
As a solicitor often advising on raising grievances who also does some mediation work, I am disturbed by the number of trade union representatives and legal advisers who appear to encourage employees to raise grievances without discussing all the implications of doing...