Author: Roger Rawlinson

During my HR consultancy work I have been asked on many occasions over the past few years to act as a mediator between parties engaged in a dispute in the workplace. These requests have sometimes followed investigations I have undertaken as  an external and independent consultant, as part of a grievance or disciplinary procedure. Often […]

True story: I was invited by the CEO of a medium sized engineering company last year to offer some coaching to Steve, his Finance Director, a bright and successful man in his mid-thirties. The business was basically sound, but there had been a fairly tricky accounting glitch at the end of the previous half year, […]

It’s a bit of a joke, isn’t it…mañana….mañana….mañana. Putting stuff off: procrastination, can have serious consequences for the organisation. I coach execs and senior managers

I am coaching an increasing number of millennials, as they make their way up the corporate ladder, or as their start-up begins to grow and flourish, and I am often confronted by a variation on the assertion that: “Well, the problem is, I’m a bit of a perfectionist, and it is making me anxious and […]