One-off session:
Performance Clinic
You pay for a leadership team.
So why are you still carrying the business?
A focused, no-fluff diagnostic session to unpack why performance, execution or culture isn’t where it should be, and what to do about it.
Revenue might be up. The team is bigger. Your senior people are well paid, and some even share in the profits. Yet the decisions, escalations, and late-night fixes still land on you. You work the hardest in your business, and often the only one.
That isn't a people problem. It's a conditions problem. The Performance Clinic is a 3-hour paid diagnostic that finds out what'’s really keeping you stuck in operations and shows you how to get out.
Please note, this is a fee-based session.
Duration: 3 hours | Cost: $1300 + GST
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Your Results
If you're honest, some of this sounds familiar
You've grown the business, but you haven't grown out of it
You set out to build a business, and somewhere along the way you became its most expensive operator
You still sign off, double-check and step in, because when you don't, things slip
Holidays aren't really holidays. The phone comes with you, and so do the problems
You spend your week in the business, and the strategic work keeps getting pushed to "next month"
You're paying for leadership you're not getting
Your managers earn premium salaries, bonuses or dividends, but still bring you problems instead of solutions
Key clients, key decisions and key knowledge still sit with you or one or two long-tenured people
People are loyal and hardworking, but "ownership" stops at their job description
You've promoted good people into management, and now you're managing them as well
Growth is making it harder, not easier
More revenue has brought more errors, more rework and more firefighting
Your team is busy, tired and still behind
The same problems keep coming back, however many times you "have the conversation"
New systems and processes get launched, then quietly ignored
Some people act as if the rules don't apply to them, and nobody holds the line except you
You've tried training, new hires and restructures, and nothing has really shifted
And the cost is quietly adding up
Your margins are being eaten by rework, delays and hidden inefficiency that nobody measures
Your best people are carrying the weak spots, and you worry about losing them
You wonder whether the business could survive a month without you, and you don't like the answer
If three or more of these hit home, you don't need to push harder. You need to see what's underneath them.
Change the conditions, not the people
A good doctor doesn't treat the headache. They find what's causing it.
Most performance problems aren't caused by a lack of effort or talent. They're built into how the work is designed:
roles pulling in conflicting directions
missing feedback loops
incentives that reward the status quo
knowledge trapped in a few people's heads
a management rhythm that never got built
When those conditions change, behaviour changes with them.
Who it's for
Founders and owners of growing businesses (10–150 people) where revenue is up but delivery is wobbling
People & Culture and HR leaders seeing patterns that training alone won't fix
Senior business unit leaders dealing with misalignment that's slowing performance
It's not for you if you'd rather keep fixing the same problems every few months than fix what's causing them.
How the Clinic works?
1. Before the session: bring your data
You'll get a short intake questionnaire and a data checklist, covering:
Finance: revenue and margin trends, cost of rework or errors, where money leaks
People: org chart, role descriptions, turnover, pay and incentive structure
Operations: key workflows, error or complaint data, current KPIs
You don't need it perfect. Whatever you have is enough to start.
2. The session: 3 hours, in person (Sydney) or on Zoom
We work through your business together. We map what's happening, test assumptions and trace each symptom back to its source. Bring a co-founder or senior leader if you like. It often speeds things up.
3. After the session: your diagnostic report
Within 2 business days you'll receive a written report covering:
The surface symptoms, in plain language
The root causes driving them
What you can fix yourselves, starting now
Where structural change is needed, and in what order
CLIENT STORY
"We thought we had a people problem."
A product distribution business processing 100+ orders a day
The situation
The business was growing fast. Orders had passed 100 a day, but the team was stretched and errors kept piling up:
About 10% of incoming orders arrived incomplete or wrong.
About 5% of warehouse picks went out with the wrong SKU, quantity or address.
Rework, backlogs and fatigue were building.
Some long-serving staff treated the rules as optional.
Leadership assumed the problem was the people.
What the Clinic found
In one 3-hour session, working from their own operational and people data, the real cause became clear. It wasn't the employees. The business had outgrown its operating system:
One role was doing three conflicting jobs. The order-processing team handled customer service (reactive), sales support and deep-focus data entry at the same time, with constant phone interruptions. That role design was driving errors no matter how hard people tried.
Nothing tracked where errors started. With no feedback loop, managers were stuck firefighting and relying on individual vigilance.
Pay rewarded staying the same. The incentive structure made it easier to slip back into old habits than to improve.
Key knowledge sat with a few people. Only the founder and sales director held key customer relationships, and day-to-day coordination ran on WeChat and verbal handovers.
What they walked away with
A 17-page diagnostic report, with the work split into two streams:
Workstream A: what they could fix themselves straight away. Automated order capture, warehouse stock technology and targeted data collection.
Workstream B: a 3-phase roadmap for the structural work. Operational system reset, governance and culture, and capability consolidation.
“We came in thinking we had a people problem. Within three hours, it was obvious we had a design problem. We'd been blaming good staff for a role that was set up to fail.""The surprise was how much of the chaos was built into how we'd set things up, not who we'd hired. For the first time, we could see what to fix first." _ Founder of the business
Investment
AUD $1,300 + GST
3-hour diagnostic session, pre-session data review and written diagnostic report.
Your fee is credited in full to any follow-on engagement started within 30 days. If you go further, the Clinic costs you nothing extra.
Not sure it's the right fit? [Book a free 30-min discovery call →]
FAQ
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Perfect. That’s what this clinic is for. You only need a sense of “something’s not working the way it should”. We’ll map it together.
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No. This is a paid diagnostic session. You’ll get honest thinking, a written summary and tangible next steps. If we both see value in further work, we can discuss options, but there is no obligation.
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Whatever you have on finance, people and operations. You'll get a checklist after booking. Rough numbers are fine.
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Yes. You can bring a co-founder, GM, HR/People lead or key manager. For more than 4 people we’ll shift to a “Leadership Team Clinic” format.
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The Clinic is the diagnosis: 3 hours and one report. Larger projects come later, and only if you need them.
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Yes. The Clinic runs on Zoom internationally, in English or Mandarin.. For on-site work or longer projects, we can discuss logistics.
Stop treating symptoms!
In three hours, you'll know what's really holding performance back and what to do first.
