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(Or how to help your manager manage you) I’ve been coaching for over twenty years and, among the many issues my clients have presented to me over the years, the one that is more common than any other is their relationship with their manager. Many coaching relationships start with a grumble that  “my manager hates […]

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 […]