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Breakfast Briefing - with Eileen Carroll - Using the 'Right Brain' to help identify and break deadlock

"Our challenge is to recognise that our culture has prized left brain linear thinking more whilst right brain capacity for synthesising emotional expression and big picture context has been underrated" (Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind)

The global world of business negotiation has traditionally been dominated by 'left brain' thinking - it has relied heavily on the written word, linear and analytical thinking. However in today's business environment there is an increasing body of evidence to suggest that this approach in itself does not engender the most fertile ground for effective negotiation and that those negotiators who demonstrate relationship skills, empathy, creativity and put more effort behind the way we connect with each other - right brain attributes - are more likely to foster better negotiated outcomes than their uniquely 'left brain' peers.

September's breakfast briefing will review the latest thinking on the potential of 'Right-Brain' engagement and why as negotiators we need to tap into the full potential of using the left and right hemisphere capabilities to maximise settlement options.

A small panel of senior litigators and mediators, including Eileen Carroll and Kate Jackson, will share their experiences to identify principal reasons for deadlock and offer suggestions for practical solutions for breakthrough.

Eileen Carroll

Eileen Carroll, has over 30 years of practice working with multinational corporations in Europe, the Far East, India and the United States in a wide range of areas as both a litigator, practising in both the US and the UK, and now one of the world's most experienced and successful commercial mediators. She was involved in facilitating and brokering two of the largest disputes in the English Legal System at the time:- the collapses of Atlantic Computers and the Maxwell empire and has helped thousands of clients and their lawyers to break through deadlock situations to reach sustainable outcomes. Eileen is a published author on this topic: “International Mediation - The Art of Business Diplomacy” and lectures widely on strategies to break deadlock. Eileen is also a principal trainer on CEDR's groundbreaking Certificate in Advanced Negotiation skills programme and a Henley Management accredited coach.

Kate Jackson

Kate qualified as a solicitor/attorney in both London and New York and until 2009 practised for 13 years as a litigator with Allen & Overy in London and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York. This included a period seconded to Morgan Stanley's in house litigation team in New York. Now a commercial mediator, Kate is a member of the CEDR Solve panel of Mediators and regularly mediates a range of commercial and banking disputes.

The cost
£35.00 plus 17.5% UK VAT for CEDR members
£50.00 plus 17.5% UK VAT for non-CEDR members

Date
Wednesday 22 September 2010. 8:30am - Registration & breakfast, 9.00am - 10.00am - Discussion

Venue
TBC [Residential]

For more information or to book a place
To book a place at this event, please contact Amy Sullivan on asullivan@cedr.com, or call +44(0)20 7536 6048

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