BGSHRM August Chapter Meeting - Resolving Employment Disputes using Mediation

Resolving Employment Disputes Using Mediation

In our complex society, there appears to be a growing need to seek faster, simpler and less costly ways to resolve the inevitable disputes of modern life. Increasingly, companies and organizations are resorting to the use of Mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution to resolve internal and external disputes.

International Mediation Consultant, Mark Stein will lead an interactive presentation on this new, yet age-old conflict resolution technique. Through role play and discussion, Stein will introduce the principles of Mediation as a tool to resolve simple and complex work place disputes and explore applications for its use.

Facilitator Bio:
International Mediation Consultant, Mark Stein is the co-author of Resolving Conflict Once and For All, Harmony House, 1997. As a consultant for the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education, he has facilitated the creation of mediation programs in fourteen states, including four statewide programs.

As President of Mediation First, one of the nation’s first comprehensive mediation firms, Stein has mediated over two thousand cases including employment disputes, commercial disputes, and divorce and custody cases in his thirty year career.

A graduate of Vanderbilt University, Mr. Stein has been featured as a mediator on the “Oprah Winfrey Show” and has testified before the President’s Commission on the Future of Worker/Management Relations.

This program has been approved for 1 HR (formerly General HRCI Credit.