Devastating Mediation Distractions? Essential Focus Strategies
Keep each mediation session focused on one issue, advises New York divorce mediation attorney Bill Leininger. Trying to tackle ten disputes at once sends everyone off track; naming a single topic for the day—say, which school the kids attend—keeps momentum. With that focus, he says, a surprising amount gets settled in just ninety minutes.
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Answered by Bill Leininger · Staten Island, NY
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— why tackling one issue at a time gets more done than ten at once
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How do you keep mediation focused?
By naming a single issue for the day—say, which school the kids attend—rather than tackling ten disputes at once, which sends everyone off track. With that focus, a surprising amount settles in ninety minutes.
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