Course description
Advanced Alternative Dispute Resolution (Level Two) (Public Course)
This multi-day workshop will elevate your ability to resolve disputes in the workplace and give you the tools to be a professional mediator. Now available Live Online.
You will learn how to help people resolve their differences, improve relationships and communication, mediate complex cases, deal with harassment issues, deal with challenging parties, address power imbalances and move positional people towards agreement. The facilitation skills we teach can be used formally or informally in a variety of contexts, whether as a mediator, a manager, a chairperson, or otherwise.
At the in-person sessions, a continental breakfast and catered lunch will be served each day of the workshop. Snacks, coffee and drinks will be available throughout the day.
This workshop is part of the Executive Certificate in Conflict Management.
Upcoming sessions will be Virtual Instructor-Led using ZOOM technology. Using ZOOM, the program will continue to be interactive and engaging involving role plays, exercises, small group discussions and coached mediation role plays. We are limiting the session to 24 participants.
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Who should attend?
The Advanced Alternative Dispute Resolution workshop builds on the skills you acquired in the Alternative Dispute Resolution Workshop, and is designed for those who want to improve their dispute resolution skills, become mediators professionally or mediate within their company. Managers seeking new skills for managing their staff and stakeholders would also benefit, as would anyone leading a diverse team.
Training content
Day 1
- Handle inflammatory conduct
- Deal with emotional people
- Mediate harassment cases
- Deal with power imbalances
Day 2
- Transition from gathering interests to generating options
- Make sure people stick to a deal
- Mediate when people have different versions of the facts
- Mediate distributive problems (a fixed pie) when parties do not desire an ongoing relationship
- Close the gaps between parties and move them through to closure
- Help parties craft appropriate settlement agreements
Day 3
- Co-mediate
- Mediate legal disputes
- Observe a professional mediator on video
- Facilitate communications in a charged atmosphere
- Build relationships
Day 4
- Mediate when lawyers are present
- Facilitate in other contexts, like town halls and consultations
- Encourage reluctant people to use ADR
- Deal with parties who are not forthcoming
- Deal with lawyers and difficult personalities
Day 5
- Mediate within the workplace
- Modify the mediation model for other contexts
- Deal with people who lie in mediations
- Manage confidentiality concerns
Course delivery details
Practical and Interactive Training
We offer intensive and interactive learning experiences for professionals and executives. You will participate in dynamic exercises and case studies. The concepts and approaches you will learn have proven successful in the real world, and can be applied immediately to your situation.
Virtual Instructor Led Learning Features
- Smaller classes for more interaction with the facilitators
- Breakout sessions to engage with other participants
- Access to videos and handouts for future reference
- Interactive and engaging live virtual sessions
Costs
- Canadian Residents: CAN $2,995 + tax
- Residents outside of Canada: US $2,425
Certification / Credits
Graduates receive a certificate from the University of Windsor Law School.
Personal Benefits
- Mediate a variety of disputes including interpersonal conflicts, legal disputes and financial issues.
- Learn to get at underlying interests
- Identify and frame the issues to promote problem-solving
- Structure the mediation process to maximize the chances of success and minimize potential problems
- Modify the mediation model to suit your workplace context and the types of disputes you most need to resolve
- Deal with difficult or positional people in mediations
- Get one-on-one coaching on your mediation style
- Feel more confident handling a variety of complex disputes and difficult mediation situations.
Organizational Benefits
- Resolve workplace conflicts in a more cost-effective and productive way
- Rebuild damaged relationships after conflict
- Mediate client disputes before they escalate
- Promote problem-solving approaches to even the most difficult issues
- Improve overall relations between management and staff (unionized or non-unionized)
- Save time and money that would otherwise be spent on lawyers, legal disputes, arbitrations, and court fees
- Develop your managerial staff to better handle disputes of any kind
- Plan and implement a dispute resolution system
Why choose SFHGroup?
Over 55,000 people trained
Over 850 customized workshops delivered
University of Windsor Law School Certificate workshops
Reviews
Average rating 5
The chance to put the theory into practice and get feedback and learn from the performances of others is fantastic - provides a great learning environment and was effectively do...
You have definitely mastered ZOOM and it is absolutely reflective in the success of the session. I would offer to hesitant folks to just give it a shot, it really exceeded my ex...
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Since 1994, more than 55,000 people have attended our public workshops to learn new approaches to resolve conflicts, negotiate better deals, communicate more effectively, improve customer service and build their ability to coach others. We also conduct practical skills-based customized...
What I liked about the workshop was the opportunity to apply mediation principles and put knowledge into practice in a safe environment with constructive coaching and feedback. ...