Mediation is about facilitating conflicting parties to find and agree on an appropriate solution.
Critical to finding this compromise is accepting that during a boardroom dispute (be this about whether or not the CEO is fit to run the business, succession planning or a commercial deal), emotion can overwhelm reason.
This is typically because people have become stuck in defending their position, instead of being open to finding a more creative way to work through the dispute and settle their concerns.
Disputes are rarely as simple as they appear so our CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) mediators take the time to work out the emotional drivers of what may appear to be irrational behaviour, using the following approach.
