Attorney Richard Hastings is Awarded the Executive Certificate in Conflict Management from the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law in Canada

Ridgefield Connecticut personal injury lawyer Richard P. Hastings was recently awarded an executive certificate in conflict management from the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law located in Canada. The executive certificate in conflict management teaches people how to become powerful negotiators, helps them to resolve their disputes, mediate tough problems, master difficult conversations, and deal with difficult and emotional people.

This intensive, hands-on experience, has shown that the best way for people to develop conflict management, negotiation, and communication skills is through practice. The workshops involved coach case studies, thought-provoking discussions, small group exercises, lectures, demonstrations, and videos. The training was focused on practical and immediate application through a variety of different areas.

In order to obtain the certificate a participant would have to complete the alternative dispute resolution workshop, the advanced alternative dispute resolution workshop, the applied alternative dispute resolution workshop, dealing with difficult people workshop, an online negotiation course in an online difficult conversations course.

Attorney Hastings has also completed the following programs;

Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation, Mediation Training;

Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation, Advanced Negotiation;

Quinnipiac University School of Law, Center on Dispute Resolution, Mediation Certificate Program;

Harvard Law School, Teaching Negotiation;

Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Sloan School of Management, Negotiation for Executives;

University of Michigan-Steven M Ross School of Business, Successful Negotiation: essential strategies and skills;

Center for Mediation in Law, mediation training; and

FBI hostage negotiator, Chris Voss', the Art of Negotiation.

Mr. Hastings has been taught and trained by some of the most influential and knowledgeable negotiation professors, instructors, and social scientists in the world including:

Bruce Patton, co-author of the best-selling book Getting To Yes;

Doug Stone and Sheila Heen, Harvard Law School professors and co-authors, along with Bruce Patton, of the best-selling book Difficult Conversations;

Amy Cuddy, a social scientist from Princeton University, and a professor at the Harvard Business School, who has one of the most viewed Ted Talks;

Jared Curhan, associate professor of organizational studies at the MIT's Sloan School of Management who specializes in the psychology of negotiation;

Robert Mnookin, a leading scholar in the field of conflict resolution and a Harvard Law School professor;

Frank E.A. Sanders, a pioneer in the field of alternative dispute resolution and a former professor emeritus and Dean of the Harvard Law School;

Linda Singer and Michael Lewis, who have taught thousands of students worldwide in the skills of negotiation and mediation and Co-chair the Center for Dispute Settlement in Washington DC;

Gary Friedman and Jack Himmelstein, who through the Center for Mediation in Law have trained thousands of law professors, judges, lawyers, and psychotherapists in the center’s method of mediation and collaborative law; and

Chris Voss, former FBI lead hostage negotiator and author of the book Never Split the Difference.

Additionally, based upon Mr. Hastings' extensive experience, over more than 35 years of practice, working on a wide variety of accident and injury cases he has been instrumental in adapting FBI hostage negotiation techniques to the area of personal injury law.

Hastings, Cohan and Walsh
440 Main St. Ridgefield, CT 06877
(203) 528-0277

Attorney Hastings is a frequent speaker and instructor to lawyers across the country on how to develop, negotiate and resolve personal injury cases through his methodologies which have resulted in his obtaining patent pending protection for his business method patent entitled Personal Injury File Acquisition Method, Client Education Program and Case Referral System.

Mr. Hastings has authored or co-authored 12 books including one domestic bestseller and one international bestseller as well as an e-book, Adjuster Secrets; Attorney and Adjuster Tips, and Techniques that Guarantee Larger Settlements, which was sold to personal injury lawyers across the country for as much as $799.99.

Contact Attorney Hastings today to find out how we can assist you with your important personal injury case.

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