Mediation-For-Managers Course To Be Offered

Sept. 6, 2010 - PRLog -- Stage Right Organizational Development, Inc., will offer the course "Manager As Mediator" on Monday, October 25, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (lunch on your own) in the Catskill Room at the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce, 5 Computer Drive South, Albany, NY.  The cost is $195 per person; $175 per person with early registration by October 1, 2010. Registration includes a workbook, reference cards and assessment materials. Register at www.mediation.eventbrite.com. For further information call 518-692-9779 or 888-692-9779 or email alan@stagerightorg.com

During the course, participants will learn the true costs of unresolved workplace conflict, the factors that contribute to and keep employees engaged in destructive conflict, mediation strategies and tools that managers can use to turn conflict into cooperation.

Stage Right Organization Development, Inc., specializes in training design and delivery of engaging, interactive programs.  Principal and CEO Alan Stern is a Certified Trainer of Managing Workplace Conflict. He conducts training of the core competencies for managing workplace conflict as part of the Mediation Training Institute International (MTI) training network.

According to Stern, unmanaged conflict is the largest-reducible yet least-recognized cost in organizations today. "Managers, supervisors, HR and EAP professionals, union leaders and others who have the skills to take positive action early -- before clashes get out of hand -- can save their businesses and organizations untold dollars in recovered work time, improved collaboration, better decision making and customer service," Stern says. "Left unattended, conflicts that start small can escalate quickly.  Before long they begin to do serious damage to your business in lost work time, poor decision making, disrupted processes and even vandalism and frivolous lawsuits."

For further information about this course or about Stage Right Organizational Development, visit the website www.stagerightorg.com

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