Setting Up in Business as a Mediator: : Stephen Walker: Bloomsbury Professional

Setting Up in Business as a Mediator

Description

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.

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

Product details

Published	06 Mar 2020
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	2nd
Extent	400
ISBN	9781526511331
Imprint	Bloomsbury Professional
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Stephen Walker

Stephen Walker is an independent civil and commerc…

I have just read your book and I wanted to say congratulations. It is well designed as it covers a lot of ground but in enough detail for the reader to know what to do next.

Martin Ellis, Ellis Mediation Limited
This book is exactly what I needed 15 years ago, and with it, I would possibly now be a very successful full-time mediator instead of a full-time forensic accountant who flirts with mediation. With this book, anyone who is determined to become a successful mediator has all the guidance and all the tools needed...use it well, and things most certainly will happen. I heartily recommend it.

The Expert & Dispute Resolver, Review of previous edition
Unique in being both really practical and truly inspirational, the book offers hope and guidance to mediators at every stage of their career, whilst giving a good idea of the time, money and effort involved if you are going to succeed.

Law Society Gazette, Review of previous edition
...packed full of information and guidance as to the nuts and bolts of setting up a mediaton business...[it is] a very useful guide for anyone considering beginning or improving a mediation business; it covers a range of business essentials in an engaging way, with a mediator's perspective throughout

Bookshelf - Civil Engineering Surveyor, Review of previous edition