Programme
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This conference took place on 24th January 2006. If you would like to order copies of the speaker's slide presentations, you can still do this using the booking page here.
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The Future of Dispute Resolution
The Role and Benefits of Workplace Mediation
The conference programme can be seen below.
A number of expert speakers who are renowned specialists in their fields are currently in the process of confirming their participation in this conference. If you would like to speak in one of these sessions, or would like to suggest a suitably qualified speaker, then please contact us via the Speaker section.
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9.00 - 9.50
Registration
Session one
9.50 - 10.00
Welcome by conference Chair
David Coats, Associate Director - Policy, The Work Foundation
10.00 - 10.20
Dispute Resolution - An Overview of Current Best Practice
David Liddle MBA, Director, Total Conflict Management
- Definition of what is meant by Dispute Resolution & Workplace Mediation
- Analysis of current best practice and implications for HR professionals
10.20 - 10.40
Government Policy and Approach - Keynote Address
Baroness Ashton, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs (TBC)
10.40 - 11.00
The Business Case for Mediation - Cutting the Cost of Conflict
Ben Willmott, Employee Relations Advisor, CIPD
- Major causes of disputes and the impact on the workplace
- What employers are currently doing to avoid disputes?
- Why mediation? Key findings of the CIPD conflict survey
11.00 - 11.15
Q & A Session with previous speakers
11.15 - 11.45
Coffee, Networking & Exhibition
Session two
11.45 - 12.05
Legal & Regulatory Update
Matthew Howse, Partner, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert
- Implications of the Woolf Reforms
- Feedback on the October 2004 Regulations
- Impact of the new Anti-Discrimination Commission
12.05 - 12.25
Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) - Helping Employers to Avoid Employment Tribunals
Rita Donaghy CBE, Chair of ACAS Council, ACAS
- What is the Employment Tribunal Service (ETS) taskforce doing at the moment?
12.25 - 12.45
Case Study - How Mediation has Worked and Saved Costs
Senior HR Director, FTSE 100 Employer
12.45 - 1.00
Q & A Session with previous speakers
1.00 - 2.00
Lunch, Networking & Exhibition
Session three
2.00 - 2.20
Mediation Simulation
Role play with actors
- A simulated demonstration of how mediation works in practice
2.20 - 2.40
The Impact of Early Resolution in the Workplace
Linda Hoskinson, Managing Director, People Resolutions Group Ltd
- Addressing absence management, harassment and bullying
- Making the skills available uniformly and professionally
2.40 - 3.00
Case Study - 'From Conflict to Consensus' - Integrating within a Large British Organisation
Wendy Tull, Diversity Manager, Kent Police
3.00 - 3.15
Q & A Session with previous speakers
3.15 - 3.45
Coffee, Networking & Exhibition
Session four
3.45 - 4.05
Mediation - Improving Lives, the Employees' Perspective
Sarah Veale, Head of Equality & Employment Rights, Trades Union Congress
- Employment relations in the 21st century
- What do employees want from their employer?
- How can this be reconciled with the business needs of their employer?
4.05 - 4.30
The Future of Dispute Resolution - Panel Debate
- David Liddle MBA, Total Conflict Management
- Sarah Veale, Trades Union Congress
- Tony Billinghurst, Mediation UK
4.30 - 4.40
Q & A Session with previous speakers
4.40
Close of Conference, Networking & Exhibition
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