Mediation Service Development


Many organisations now have in-house mediators or an internal mediation service. We offer a range of services to suit your organisation
  • Set up an internal mediation service
  • Develop an existing service
  • Maximise the use of an established service
If you have individual mediators or a small in-house mediation team see our mediator supervision & support.

Mediation Service Staff

The people that manage or co-ordinate your service are your most important asset. They bring the cases in, assess them and support the mediators who achieive the outcomes. They take on a broad variety of roles covering management, practice and development issues. We can provide one to one support and coaching in a format to suit.

Mediation Service Development

We help from inception to evaluation. We offer practical assistance and established expertise. We have trained mediation teams for over twenty in-house services.

We work with you at the start to
  • assess and prepare the ground, building interest
  • orientate stakeholders, build leverage, assess finance options
  • integrate mediation into policies and procedures

Once under way we can help
  • provide powerful messages for promotion & marketing
  • provide a structure for interview and selection
  • provide mediator person specs and job descriptions
  • provide questions for interview
  • recruit and select suitable candidates

Once established, we provide
  • advice and consultancy on case management
  • documentation and paperwork
  • advice on service co-ordination and administration

Finally, helping you with
  • evaluation
  • supervision and support of mediators
  • on-going professional development
  • service integration, optimisation and growth
  • through life project and funding issues.

Strengthening Mediation Services

Our services can help you
  • Increase the number of referrals to your in house service
  • Improve the quality of referrals to your in house service
  • Coach and develop your mediator body in order to improve the quality of practice
  • Evaluate current use and practice and identify areas for development
  • Support and mentor key mediation figures
  • Broaden the range and use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) & other conflict initiatives
Talk with us about how we can help maximise mediation´s potential.