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Archive for 'Keys to Inner Mastery' Category
The Short List…
30 June 2009The question of the day is: how do you get on the short list?
For those of you who don’t know to what I am referring, I am referring to the “short list of mediators.” When lawyers advise their clients to mediate a case, the lawyers will usually circulate a list of mediators to […]
Spring is here!
20 March 2009Today is the first day of spring. Here in San Diego this is of much less significance to me than it was last year when I was on the East Coast.
Nonetheless, I heard an interesting quote today — “Growth is always followed by pruning.”
When we lived in Northern California along the bay, […]
Quality and Quantity
6 February 2009In the Mediation Mastery Model ™ I created for the success system, there are four quadrants. One very important quadrant is Technical Mastery. Technical Mastery relates to your skill, experience, and abilities as a mediator. It is important to work continuously on improving your skills and to have a philosophy of continuous […]
It’s Been a Long Time… a really long time
11 December 2008I don’t think I can jump back into the blogging world after an almost six-month hiatus without some sort of an explanation. After all, in the blogging world, if you miss a day or a week, you are really behind. Six months, well, you might as well have… died!
Anyway, here’s the short of […]
Respect your power
27 June 2008There we sat, within the confines of the Judge’s chambers, the beautiful library with mahogony shelves filled with law books surrounded us — the judge, my adversary, and the judge’s law clerk off to the corner.
We had not been there more than seven minutes when the Judge, presuming to have gleaned enough information about the […]
You are your brand
5 February 2008In marketing a professional service, remember you are your brand.
Interviews done by Jeff Kichaven and the research done by the MATA folks, reveal some of the qualities people look for in a mediator. I have posted about them before:
Integrity — if you say that you will keep something in confidence, do not breach […]
2008 (yeah it IS really late) Mediation Marketing Plan
14 January 2008Hey, January is just about HALF over. I know.
Did you prepare your mediation marketing and business plan for 2008 in December like all the *experts* say you should?
Well, even if you’re late (like I am with this blog post) fear not. I wanted to get my own new year planning done before I […]
Planning for Mediation/ADR Business Success in 2008: Part I
6 January 2008The New Year is here… and now is the perfect time to put on your strategic planning cap.
Before we look forward to what it is you want to build this year and how it fits into your five and ten year plans…
We look back and assess the lessons from 2007.
Here’s a great list of questions […]
Connecting With Your Deeper Meaning
30 December 2007Hello fellow mediators, arbitrators and conflict managers!
It has been a long break and I am back. I have thought of you often and have longed to come and jot a few notes here and there.
Alas, I hope you all had a blessed Christmas or Hannukah. We enjoyed some time off in the […]
The gateway to freedom
6 November 2007Ah yes, freedom…
Doesn’t that word inspire positive thoughts?
Perhaps it’s because we are indoctrinated (those of us in the US) through our history and guiding fictions that we live in the “home of the brave and the land of the free.” We pay dearly for our “freedom.”
Today, I’m not talking about national or political freedom, […]