Keeping late hours and sleep deprivation resulted in his efficiency being reduced and needing more time to perform the tasks at hand. Given his earlier track record, his bosses (three of them, since this is a matrixed organisation) initially overlooked his slip-ups, but two consecutive delays resulted in the loss of one remunerative project and a levy of penalty on another. This did not go down well at all with Hari’s bosses. At around this time Hari needed to take time off to be with his wife for the delivery of his son, which aggravated an already precarious situation, specially since it was the end of the quarter in which the maximum business was normally booked.
Upon his return to his home with his new born son, things did not improve at all and both work and marital fronts continued to head south. Things reached a nadir when he worked through a week-end and his wife, in frustration, moved to her parents home with their little son. I worked with Hari using the following approaches and tools:
Verbatim comments made by Hari during and after the Coaching Sessions