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Three points of failure in Grievance and Disciplinary investigations

There are 3 possible points of quality failure in Grievance and Disciplinary processes that are worth being mindful of and …
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Coalition blues

I woke up this morning – got the coalition blues! It only took twelve months For win/win To become win …
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Universities in the front-line of workplace mediation initiatives

In the Tuesday 3 May Education Guardian Paul Randolph recognised how people in dispute at universities often want to win …
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A flood of workplace conflict: don’t panic, get SMART-ER

More and more time in the UK is being spent on managing workplace conflict. Increased volumes of grievances, disciplinaries and …
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Joined up dispute resolution (or not)

It is good to hear a government body – BIS – speaking with clear and convincing dispute resolution vocabulary in …
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Travelling the world, delivering training for CMP

Bullying and harassment at work is a global experience. Conflict management skills needed in all workplaces
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Why the need for Investigation Standards is more important than ever

Let’s just imagine someone at your workplace has made a formal complaint alleging misconduct, perhaps of bullying or harassment, which …
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Changing conflict-negative culture

To finish my series on applying ‘nudge’ thinking to mediation and effective dispute resolution at work I want to focus …
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Why introduce internal mediation services into unionised organisations?

In fact, the question is, ‘Why not?’   Last year BIS, the TUC[1] and CBI issued a joint publication examining …
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New Year’s Resolution

Happy New Year! CMP are resolving to get even better at communicating with you about dispute resolution. On that theme …
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