Remember mediator blah blah . . . .
? New Zealand mediator and mediation/negotiation trainer Geoff Sharp’s justly revered blog? It still exists, along with an incredible treasure trove of helpful suggestions, insights, links, case studies, white papers, forms, shout-out’s, call downs, criticisms and praise. mediator blah blah has been shuttered and silent since Geoff “bowed out” in August of 2009, followed by the funereal wailings, rending of garments and heaping of ashes by those whose professional and personal lives were enriched every time Geoff put hand to keyboard.
Somewhere mediators and negotiators must have been saying “I do believe, I do believe, I do believe,” or tapping their ruby shoes together. Today, Tinker Bell recovers and Dorothy returns to Kansas.
Geoff Sharp is baaacccckkkkkkkkkkkk and he’s looking awfully good and modern walking toward you on his new web home with forms to deliver, process and case studies to share, articles to hand over, and YES INDEED, a new blog whose title m3 makes Geoff appear to be the only mediator in the English-speaking world who might actually recall how to solve a quadratic equation.
Welcome back Geoff! We sorely and sincerely missed you!
p.s. kill that blog registration thing-a-ma-jiggy please.
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