Conversation Prep
The Workplace Mediation Prep
For the Employee Before the Meeting
You know what happened. This is where you decide what you want to do about it.
For the Employees heading into a workplace mediation process — those who have a dispute with a colleague, manager, or team member that has been escalated to a formal process — who want to arrive knowing what they need to say rather than discovering it in the meeting.
The Name It First Experience
Workplace mediation is a structured process. The HR professional and mediator have seen it before. The employee, usually, has not — and often arrives having spent more energy rehearsing what went wrong than clarifying what they want to happen next. This prep sheet reorganizes that energy: what the situation is, what you need acknowledged, what you want changed, and what a resolution you could accept looks like. The document you produce is the statement you bring to the room — organized, clear, and yours. At the end, you'll have your Pre-mediation Statement.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What is your role in this conflict — even the part that's uncomfortable to acknowledge?
- What are your real priorities here — professional relationship, acknowledgment, changed behavior?
- What outcome do you need from this process — and what are you willing to accept?
- What do you most need the other person to understand — the thing that has felt unheard?
Research basis
Workplace mediation research (Bingham, Bush, Folger): mediation outcomes correlate with preparation quality more than with the strength of the underlying claim. Conflict resolution (Fisher, Ury): principled negotiation requires separating interests from positions before entering the room. Testimony preparation (legal practice): structured written preparation reduces recency bias and emotional flooding during high-stakes conversations. Narrative clarity (Pennebaker): writing a coherent account of a disputed event before telling it produces more consistent and credible testimony.
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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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