Alert readers will notice that I have reorganised the site a little, to make the Search function better and to give greater emphasis to the various excellent services I offer – see the new buttons on the left.

This blogging business takes a lot of time, but generates zero revenue. So I hope that that will change. It must.

The one area I would like to develop is Mediation. I probably have done more top-end Mediation training than anyone else in the UK, building on years of diplomatic mediation-style work eg in the Balkans. But it is not easy to get started professionally as a mediator if one is not where disputes and disagreements and misunderstandings are unfolding (viz in a lawyer’s office).

Just this week I have been involved in a business negotiation aimed at finding a better outcome rather than resorting to a litigation jungle. It was interesting to see how a friendly style looking to a positive future rather than dwelling on the rancorous past can keep difficult issues under better control.

The trick is not to try to solve everything, but to reshape the questions and make different parts of a complex problem more manageable. To move from Positions to Interests, as they say in the trade. 

So if anyone out there has a dispute/disagreement or even a problem needing a different look and approach, just press mail@charlescrawford.biz

Or, indeed, if you need your website rewriting, or a speech knocked out, or advice on a CV, or ideas for a PowerPoint presentation, or a draft article/thesis sharpened up. Or whatever.

Go on. Press.

You know you want to.