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The next level of a High Performance Team Prof. Jan van Zwieten RI,RA,RO 1. Introduction During the second half of the twentieth century, many companies have started working with the concept of “High Performance Team”. What is new in this manner of thinking, is that there is much more attention to the team members, their […]

Reconstruction and innovation of mediation: an integral approach Nico Roos, PhD. and Jan van Zwieten, RI,RA,RO Mediation as a practical science for an adult profession About three years ago, Baarsma asked the provocative question whether mediation remains the eternal promise or whether it will be a mature market. Her advice was to make quality of […]

How to make mediation work? Prof. Jan van Zwieten RI,RA,RO (Netherlands) Introduction Mediation is more and more well-known and a lot of countries in the eastern part of Europe, Eur-Asia and Asia now adopt a law in mediation. In most of these countries the mediators also organise themselves in an association. So it looks as […]

Update Mediats project Netherlands Business Academy has been the project lead for the Erasmus+ project: training and society transformation since 2018. This project, abbreviated as “Mediats”, is co-funded by the European Union. Mediation is hot! In the Mediats project 11 leading universities from 7 different countries are working together. Mediats aims to promote mediation in […]

Perspectives on leadership by rector Jan van Zwieten Our rector Jan van Zwieten wrote a series of articles on leadership. Each of the articles addresses a different angle. The first two articles ‘Talent management and the 4 axes of human potential’ and ‘Roles of leadership’ looked at personal leadership and the role of leadership in […]