Mediation is powerful. And it's positive.
Protecting reputations and integrity
Mediation respects parties in dispute and is completely confidential. The process protects privacy - personal and intellectual - preventing outside intrusion that can adversely affect organisational integrity, and client and competitor perceptions.
Reaching real conclusions
Mediation is swift and efficient. When it's done it's done. The process is professional, legal and non-formulaic. Perhaps most important - relationships are very often transformed.
Saving more than costs
Litigation is costly, protracted and produces winners and losers. The "awarding" of "damages" can be exactly that. Mediation enables disputing parties to find common ground and balances.
It's a real alternative to resolving disputes.
It's also a sensible, practical and highly cost-effective way to address a dispute at any level. Because it's not confrontational, its outcomes are real and liveable for both parties.
And it maintains total confidentiality.
Mediation works. It's that simple. - Su Lloyd, Accredited Mediator
- LESS:
- cost than a long, public litigation battle
- time with a structured, agreed procedure
- pain with a non-adversarial resolution
- MORE:
- innovative and satisfying outcomes
- closure with jointly liveable solutions
- chance of rebuilding relationships
The difference between litigation and mediation:
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow
