Colorado Mediation Services, LLC


Managing Conflict through Communication

                                     

Gregg Fisher  Ph.  970-485-5444
Vice president -Mediation Association of Colorado (theMAC)
Chair of theMAC  membership committee

Wendy Ober  Ph.   303-324-7539

 

Email:  ColoradoMediators@comcast.net



Contracts

Let Colorado Mediation Services Mediators assist in avoiding  the expense of litigation.
  •  Contracts disputes of any origin, be they rooted in business, benefits or any other matter are ripe for settlement via the mediation process.  Mediation assists the parties in reconstructing the dispute into easy to manage components and offer a safe venue to settle the issue short of an expensive and sometimes unpredictable outcome orchestrated by a third party.
  • Pension and Welfare Plans: Let a Mediator with 15 years experience as a trustee assist in resolving those pension and benefit deadlocks that are often seen in todays Taft Hartley plans.
 Let a Mediator with 15 years experience as a trustee assist in resolving those pension and benefit deadlocks that are often seen in todays Taft Hartley plans.

  • Employment related issues can be one of the most contentious and potentially expensive areas of litigation for both parties. Mediation can play an important role in establishing a harmonious workplace with minimal expenditure of time and/or resources.  
    • Disciplinary issues such as absenteeism
    •  Behavioral and job performance matters 
    •  EEO issues and alleged discrimination or disparate complaints can be addressed outside the courtroom
    •  Co-worker conflict resolution 

  • Labor/Management relationships:
    • Use of a mediator prior heading moving a grievance to arbitration often saves thousands of dollars
    • Improve the management/labor relationship in order to effect a better working relationship.  While the nature of the relationship will always contain an inherent component of conflict,  a common element of respect will permit the parties to focus on the issues and not the personalities. 

  • Employers:  The mediation process is a proactive, cost effective, and efficient method of addressing issues related to your workforce without an intrusive outside entity dictating the outcome.

  • Employees:  From the employee's viewpoint, mediation offers a non-confrontational method of addressing concerns related to co-worker's behavior or your employer's perceived actions.

  • An experienced CMS Mediator strives to understand the position of all parties and then assists them in constructing a satisfactory memorandum of understanding  addressing the issues of all concerned.