Setting Up in Business as a Mediator

You want to be a mediator, but how do you get started? How do you build your business? How do you make money from being a full-time mediator?

Setting Up in Business as a Mediator provides you with the answers to these questions.

Whether new to mediation and wanting to start a business as a full-time mediator, or an experienced mediator wanting to develop and grow an existing business, Setting Up in Business as a Mediator has hands-on advice for every stage of a mediator's career and is full of essential information on how mediators can get started in business and grow their existing practice.

Restructured, revised and fully updated the new 2nd edition shows:

- How to become accredited
- How to find a market
- The secrets of a good profile
- Hints for great blogging
- How to set up a website
- The best times to tweet
- What not to post on LinkedIn and Facebook
- How to overcome objections and rejection

Packed with helpful tips and guidance, checklists, self-audits, templates, scripts and real life examples, this book aims to get mediators thinking, prompting answers to the following questions, and more:

- Why are they doing mediation?
- How many mediations a year do they want to be doing in three years' time?
- How much money, time and effort do they need to invest to get there?
- What do they need to charge?
- Why would they choose themselves as a mediator?

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 What are you getting into?
Chapter 3 Accreditation - how to get it
Chapter 4 Know yourself
Chapter 5 Know your product
Chapter 6 Know your market
Chapter 7 Business plan
Chapter 8 Marketing: What does it mean for mediators?
Chapter 9 Profile it is all: is it?
Chapter 10 Putting the (social) media into mediation
Chapter 11 Website
Chapter 12 Selling - the necessary mindset
Chapter 13 Presenting and selling yourself
Chapter 14 Making a noise
Chapter 15 Who can help you?
Chapter 16 Online dispute resolution - ODR
Chapter 17 Money
Chapter 18 Administration
Chapter 19 help! I've got a mediation!
Chapter 20 Mediation agreement
Chapter 21 Settlement agreement
Appendices
1 Mediation report form
2 Mediation Terms and Conditions
3 Mediation crib sheet
4 Mediation Kit
5 Standard correspondence

About the author

Stephen Walker is an independent civil and commercial mediator. He has conducted over 750 mediations. He is ranked in the top 40 UK mediators by both Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 and WWL and is on the International Mediation Institute’s (IMI) panel of accredited international mediators.

He became an accredited specialist online mediator in 2015 and has done over 150 online mediations. He also undertook specialised training in family and workplace mediation and is dual certified in the USA through INADR.

Stephen is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Royal Society of Arts as well as a visiting lecturer in mediation at Kings College London. He is regularly asked to give workshops, talks and presentations on mediation.

Stephen is the author of five mediation books published by Bloomsbury Professional Mediation Advocacy: Representing Clients in Mediation (2nd Ed); Setting Up in Business as a Mediator (2nd Ed); FAQs for Mediators; Mediation: An A-Z Guide; and Mediation Behaviour: Why We Act Like We Do.

For further information please visit www.swalkermediation.com

Summary

You want to be a mediator, but how do you get started? How do you build your business? How do you make money from being a full-time mediator?

Setting Up in Business as a Mediator provides you with the answers to these questions.

Whether new to mediation and wanting to start a business as a full-time mediator, or an experienced mediator wanting to develop and grow an existing business, Setting Up in Business as a Mediator has hands-on advice for every stage of a mediator’s career and is full of essential information on how mediators can get started in business and grow their existing practice.

Restructured, revised and fully updated the new 2nd edition shows:

- How to become accredited
- How to find a market
- The secrets of a good profile
- Hints for great blogging
- How to set up a website
- The best times to tweet
- What not to post on LinkedIn and Facebook
- How to overcome objections and rejection

Packed with helpful tips and guidance, checklists, self-audits, templates, scripts and real life examples, this book aims to get mediators thinking, prompting answers to the following questions, and more:

- Why are they doing mediation?
- How many mediations a year do they want to be doing in three years’ time?
- How much money, time and effort do they need to invest to get there?
- What do they need to charge?
- Why would they choose themselves as a mediator?

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Mediation online service.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Walker
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2020
• EAN: 9781526511324
• ISBN: 978-1-5265-1132-4
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 710 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Arbitration, Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration, mediation & alternative dispute resolution, Business Negotiation, Arbitration, mediation and alternative dispute resolution