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Accordence trains and advises clients who manage complex high-stakes negotiations and major change initiatives including mergers or acquisitions and critical strategic relationships.
Accordence consultants work to resolve conflict through mediating complex business disputes and opportunities within and between corporations, government agencies, and corporate and community leaders. We design effective conflict resolution processes, equip our clients with skills and tools for effective collaboration, and share state of the art theories developed at the Harvard Negotiation Project.
Outcomes we achieve for our clients include:
Resolutions that satisfy the key interests of all parties
Improved working relationships
Capacity built for managing future conflicts
Clear implementation plans, including a buy-in process for key constituencies
When our clients present us with deadlocks and impasses, there are usually only two options on the table: “Mine vs. Yours”. Our mission is to create more choices through the use of interest-based mediation/facilitation and negotiation. We experience consistent success in crafting efficient, creative solutions that satisfy the interests of all parties, even when our clients believe resolution is impossible.
Our Role
Our role varies to match our clients' needs. We may serve in the capacity of:
- Neutral facilitators and/or
- Advisors/coaches to all parties or
- Partisan advisors
Some parties with complex disputes require a neutral facilitator throughout the process. Other parties engage us to design the negotiation process, coach the parties, and trouble-shoot between sessions while the client conducts the negotiation themselves.
In cases where one party is interested in a collaborative approach, while the other has yet to be convinced, our clients have found that using Accordence as an advisor to their team alone produces appreciably better results.
Regardless of the role in which you engage us, we develop a joint solution that is best for all parties given the alternatives. Each party retains the authority to say “yes” or “no” to any Accordence developed proposal, and each party is able to terminate the mediation/facilitation if it feels the process is not meeting its needs.
Our Process
Accordence utilizes a six stage process in each mediation and facilitation session.
- Pre-entry
- Diagnostic overview
- Analyses and design
- Mediation/facilitation
- Implementation
- Assessments and follow-up
Click here to read a detailed description on each stage of our mediation and facilitation process.
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