Conflict prevention and conflict anticipation
We help you to recognise potential conflicts at an early stage and use them productively.
The potential for conflict should always be considered.
We do not see conflicts between colleagues, teams, departments or between bodies and committees as a problem, but rather as a Expression of different ideas that are important for the organisation or its managers..
Professional conflict prevention and anticipation create paths and opportunities that make an organisation more resilient or at least more resistant and sometimes even more innovative.
Who do we support and accompany?
As experienced conflict and negotiation experts, we support individuals, teams and organisations on their way to recognising the value of conflict potential and harnessing it through negotiation.
What advantages does your organisation gain from conflict prevention and anticipation?
Prevention and anticipation work brings people closer at an early stage, enables an understanding of what is different in one's own team and organisation, in short; it creates community. But the best thing is that they establish a future-oriented way of working right from the start, which is essential for teams and organisations today.
How does INKOVEMA's conflict prevention work in practice?
We help you to integrate conflict prevention into your strategic planning and to establish prevention tools in your day-to-day operations - for a harmonious, successful working environment.
Order clarification
In an initial meeting (approx. 60-90 minutes) at your premises, at our offices or via video call, we clarify your situation and recommend worthwhile solutions. We clarify whether and under what specific conditions we are prepared to work together and achieve the goals we have discussed.
Start and implementation of counselling
Prevention and anticipation measures are varied and are discussed - and implemented - in close consultation with the client and the relevant stakeholders.
Conclusion and reflection
After completion of the planned measure, feedback meetings are held with the client. An evaluation of the measures is carried out at intervals if desired.
Realisation and support
Monitoring the implementation, evaluation and adjustment of the measures is the crucial part of our service: we check whether the steps taken are effective and adjust processes, rules or training if necessary.
Comments on our work
We engaged Dr Sascha Weigel to work through protracted conflicts within a software development team in order to improve the communication culture and support the strategic and personnel reorganisation of the team. We found Dr Sascha Weigel to be a careful and committed moderator and mediator who provided us with excellent support in understanding and resolving our problems, as well as helping us to focus on future directions for us as an entrepreneurial team.
Marc Alexander Schweitzer, Deputy Director of the Institute, Fraunhofer SCAI, BonnSascha has conducted extensive mediations in our company. Our company is characterised by diversity - with all its light and dark sides. We could always rely on him in difficult phases, ... a helpful mixture of scientific depth and practical relevance, extremely approachable and with great composure ... but my favourite thing about him is his humour!
IDA SCHÖNHERR, Formerly BASF Berlin, Chairwoman of the Works CouncilAs BASF Services Europe GmbH, we asked Dr Sascha Weigel (INKOVEMA) to mediate a conflict in one of our departments in 2015/2016. With outstanding professionalism, he grasped the problem of the conflict situation and also considered the organisational implications in a diverse working environment.Dr Sascha Weigel enabled us to deal with the relevant issues appropriately and make sensible decisions by providing prudent advice to the management level, including the works council, as well as through dedicated mediation and workshops together with the parties involved.
Rita Lampasona-Hornung, BASF Services Europe GmbH, Berlin, Head of Department, client since 2017Valuable was the structural help of your approach and the completely different perspective...such as ...much of what we call conflicts are actually attempts to resolve them....
Katinka Schulz, fgi-FischerGroupInternationalWe are impressed by the way Dr Weigel adapts to the particularities of different university structures and offers very appropriate support without intervening himself. He professionally supports those involved in finding their own solutions.
DR. KATHRIN CARL, Head of Human Resources Development and Training, FSU Jena, client since 2017A SELECTION OF OUR CUSTOMERS
Blog posts on mediation
Interview: Few things are more unifying than resolved conflicts
Few things are more unifying than resolved conflicts ...or why conflict management is not about removing obstacles, but about innovation and creativity. (Unabridged) Interview, LVZ 27 July 2019 Dr Weigel, what exactly is a conflict? The [...]
Mediation in organisations – An interview on the innovation-promoting work of mediators in and for organisations.
Mediation in organisations. An interview on the work of mediators in and for organisations with Dr Sascha Weigel. The interview - abridged here - was conducted by Sarah Lipot in December 2018. Sarah Lipot is currently studying [...]