Hi Welcome to MediatorPodcast.com - A podcast and video series about mediation, negotiation and collaboration. My name is Melissa Gragg, I provide online valuation and mediation services in St. Louis, Missouri.
During this episode we will discuss “How an Experienced Mediator Gets Results” with Elliot Herland, a mediator focused on workers’ compensation cases, based in Minneapolis, and Vice Chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution-Membership Committee.
Welcome Elliot!!
- Let’s start out easy for our listeners. How do you explain to people what you do? What is a mediator?
- Why would a person or company need to hire a mediator?
- Over the past 20+ years you have conducted over 1,000 mediations involving unions, employers, employees and insurance companies. You manage to settle 95% to 98% of these mediations. What happened to the ones that didn’t settle?
- What do you think makes for a successful mediation? Particular client traits? Mediation Skills?
- What is a typical mediation process or the “Herland Mediation Process”?
- Let’s talk more about “The Mediator’s Proposal” and different mediation approaches used by experienced mediators.
- Mediators run into many different personalities. How do you deal with the difficult ones?
- You provide mediation services online, via telephone and in-person (socially distanced of course) Which one works best in your opinion? When did you start doing online mediation?
- When someone is considering hiring a mediator – what questions should they ask?
- How can an employer/Insurer be prepared for a workers’ comp mediation? How can an employee be prepared for a workers’ comp mediation?
- Tell us more about you and your firm.
Melissa Gragg
CVA, MAFF, CDFA
Expert testimony for financial and valuation issues
http://www.BridgeValuation.com
Cell: (314) 541-8163
Bridge Valuation Partners, LLC
melissa@bridgevaluation.com
Elliot Herland
Mediator
Herland Mediation Services
Vice Chair, ABA Section of Dispute Resolution-Membership Committee, Student and Early Career Outreach
Phone: 952-240-4005
Email: herlandmediationservices@outlook.com
Website: https://www.herlandmediation.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliot-herland-mediation-services/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/herlandmediation/
