Martin Burns provides top tips for commercial mediators
In my experience, lawyers and other professionals who become commercial mediators are driven by three things. They want to add a new product to their service offering, they yearn for the challenge of doing something new and intellectually challenging, and they want to get paid for doing mediations.
I was recently talking to a Chartered Surveyor who had just achieved “accredited” status as a mediator with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR). He got in touch with me to chat about how he might develop his experience, and maybe earn a few pounds. Here’s what I told him.
Genuine commitment
Accreditation by a reputable training body is only the first step in the process. If you want to be recognised and used as a mediator, you must not only have the desire but you must also have a genuine commitment to get where you want to be, and put the hours in.
An aspiring mediator needs to get ahead of the competition.
