A Field Guide to Good Decisions: Values in Action
$35.00 
We all face tough choices: business executives, community leaders, and family members all struggle with difficult decisions on a daily basis. What we decide reveals what really matters to us; how we decide determines whether we succeed or fail. Developed over twenty years in settings as diverse as hospital bedsides and corporate boardrooms, "A Field Guide to Good Decisions" provides the skills to make decisions that reflect your core values while respecting those of others, including the long-term implications for all participants.
Illustrated through many real-life examples that will resonate with readers both professionally and personally, "A Field Guide to Good Decisions" offers practical tools and techniques for identifying individual and common goals, reaching consensus, and communicating the results effectively. The authors also show readers how to overcome common obstacles to good decision-making (psychological, cultural, and organizational). Ultimately, this book is about making decisions which, while not always a matter of life or death, nevertheless have a powerful effect on our sense of self, our credibility in the eyes of others, and the lives of those touched by the choices we make.
Ethical Decision-making: Values in Action (Participant Guide)
$25.00
This guide describes the five steps of the Values in Action decision-making method. With a clear road map and self-guided worksheets, you will shine a bright light on the values dimension of your situation, be able to choose with integrity, create a durable decision, and credibly communicate to others. This guide can be used for an individual decision or with a small group.
Ethical Decision-making: Values in Action (Facilitator's Guide)
$50.00
This guide provides additional tools for leading groups of up to 12 people through the Values in Action process, addresses special problem areas, describes how to advocate for organizational integrity and offers specific coaching tips to implement the Values in Action process in organizations. Available December, 2011.
Ethical Decision-making: Values in Action (Trainer's Guide)
$250.00
This guide provides all the presentation materials, slides, simulations, and detailed instructions necessary for an experienced trainer to present the Values in Action method in a 4-hour training for up to 25 participants. Available Spring, 2012. (Note: authorized use of the Trainer's Guide requires purchase of a Participant Guide for each individual trained. Contact us for information on discounts for large groups)
The Art of Mediation Field Guide for the Advanced Practitioner
$50.00
This guide picks up where the Art of Mediation ends offering specific tools and expert guidance to overcome the special challenges that experienced mediators face. The orientation, guided worksheets and concrete recommendations will point the way toward mastery of the mediation process and keep you on the path to reach your professional goals. Available Spring, 2012.
This workbook is designed for basic mediation training. The authors take NITA's performance-based training for trial lawyers and adapt it to training for mediators. The authors have used these materials extensively in their mediation training classes at law schools and in programs open to the public.
"The Art of Mediation" sets the mediation process in context, provides basic definitions, contrasts mediation with other forms of dispute resolution, describes varieties of mediation, and lays out roles and functions of the mediators. The book takes NITA's performance-based training for lawyers and adapts it to training for mediators. The authors, Bennett and Hughes, have used these materials extensively in their mediation training classes at law schools and in programs open to the public. The Art of Mediation is in a second edition and has been used as a graduate school text and training manual in the United States, Canada, and Israel.