Subsidiary Issue Identification Questions

• Were the issues that appeared to be most critical to you always the ones that brought you into the case?
• Did the conflict become defined differently over time? How?
• Did you find it necessary at times to help the parties define or prioritize their issues? How did you do this?
• Did you find yourself assisting one party to understand the other party's perspective?
• Did you have effective techniques for persuading a party to reframe the problem to make it negotiable?
• How did you deal with seemingly intractable demands on a party's agenda for negotiations?
• How would you deal with a demand on one party's agenda that the other party said was non-negotiable?
• Did you ever deal with a conflict that seemed to be truly intractable?
• Did key issues ever involve factual disagreements? How did you deal with such problems?