Conciliators, dba WorkBuddy

Conciliators cuts the cost of conflict for organizations. We use skilled neutrals, trained in dispute resolution, to proactively resolve workplace issues of all kinds. Businesses routinely invest in the physical health and mental health of their workforce. Our goal is to help businesses capture the economic benefit of investing in the organization's social health--that is, the health of individual relationships within the organization. When work relationships are bad (poor organizational social health), the organization suffers in many ways including high turnover, absenteeism, loss of productivity, poor performance, and costly litigation. People dread coming to work. Feuding workers spend their time forming alliances and spreading the destructive social contagion throughout the organization. Internal resources, like HR and legal departments, spend much of their time trying to put out fires. Unfortunately, many fires are burning undetected. This is because people do not want to admit that they cannot solve relational conflicts on their own. They do not want to be mistaken for a whiner or trouble-maker. The cost of reporting an issue is so high that people say nothing until the problem has already done enough damage to justify the price of speaking up. By hiring Conciliators, an organization gives its people access to a neutral third party conciliator who has dedicated his/her career to solving people problems. Communications to a conciliator are confidential and protected by statute. We coach people through their problems and facilitate conversations when necessary. We proactively engage employees, checking their social health within the workplace. We educate employees and leaders in dispute resolution, communication, and conflict management through videos, in-person seminars, and podcasts that are tailored to the pain points we see within the organization. We cut the costs of conflict.