Mediation To Improve Culture

Whether or not you are at home or work, conflict can destroy culture and be disengaging for all. The biggest mistake I find when working with people is that they wait too long before getting professional help. If you find yourself hitting your head against the wall with little to no improvements, chances are you need help sooner than later.

Mediation can have tremendous benefits for you regardless if conflict is at home, at work, or anywhere surrounding you.

Some of these mediation benefits are:

• Improved health by reducing stress

• Reduction of tension

• Improved environment/culture

• Enhanced effective communication

• Empathy

• Compromise

• Reduction of threat in terminating a relationship

• Increased productivity

• Minimize turn over in workplace

• Decreased gossip

• Decrease negativity

• Enhanced performance management

• Increased patience

• Achieve common ground

• Collaboration

• Better team approach

Through mediation you will have to first be comfortable with the uncomfortable. However, if mediation is done right, relief will be felt soon and conflict will be diminished.

Here is a breakdown of what I can provide you or your team.

Mediation 101

Setting the stage

Define ground rules and characteristics that are needed for success.

Examples: Characteristics: Humility, Vulnerability, Trust, etc.

Rules

Speak only your truth

Listen with both ears and open mind

Equal time to debate

Don’t interrupt/ talk over

Establish Goals for Mediation

Debate and freestyle

Open, honest communication about conflict and turmoil putting everything on the table.

Allow emotion, anger, frustration in a safe environment.

Turning point

Find the common ground

Appreciate differences

Compromise

Planning for future

Collaboratively create solutions to problems

Develop action items and plan for better outcomes

Closing

Review history and set expectations for future

Celebrate progress

Schedule Check ins

Provide Ongoing accountability

Reassurance and support if needed

If you or your team is looking for team mediation services, reach out to me for a consultation on how I can help.

Kate Myers, CPLC

(317) 296-5082

kate@myerssquared.com