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People & Performance

Build Teams that Perform
Without Burning People Out

Most performance problems are not skills problems. They are people system problems.

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Under the People & Performance banner, Tree Consulting helps medium-sized businesses fix the invisible human friction that slows execution, erodes accountability, and quietly kills growth.

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This work is not HR for HR’s sake. It is commercially driven, behaviour-focused, and designed to improve decision-making, execution speed, retention, and results.​

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Organisational Climate & Culture Transformation

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What This Actually Means

Organisational climate is how it feels to work in your business day to day. Culture is how people actually behave when no one is watching.

If strategy says one thing but behaviour says another, performance will always lose.

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Typical Symptoms We Fix

  • Good strategies that never fully land

  • Passive resistance to change

  • Silos between departments

  • Low ownership and high defensiveness

  • Managers who avoid difficult conversations

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What We Do

  • Diagnose behavioural friction and trust breakdowns

  • Identify cultural contradictions (what leadership says vs what is rewarded)

  • Redesign recognition, decision rights, and feedback loops

  • Align leadership behaviour with commercial priorities

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What This Delivers for You

  • Faster execution of strategy

  • Fewer internal battles and less politics

  • Higher accountability without micromanagement

  • A culture that supports growth instead of resisting it

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Commercial Outcome: Better decisions, faster follow-through, and fewer costly people-related delays.

Leadership & Team Coaching

What This Actually Means

This is not motivational coaching. It is performance coaching for leaders operating under pressure.

We focus on how leaders:

  • Think

  • Decide

  • Communicate

  • Hold accountability

Because leadership behaviour sets the ceiling for team performance.

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Typical Symptoms We Fix

  • Strong technical leaders who struggle with people

  • Teams dependent on one or two key individuals

  • Avoidance of conflict and accountability

  • Managers promoted without leadership tools

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What We Do

  • One-on-one leadership coaching grounded in real business situations

  • Team-level coaching to improve trust, clarity, and execution

  • Decision-making frameworks for complex environments

  • Practical tools for delegation, feedback, and performance conversations

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What This Delivers for You

  • Leaders who think commercially, not emotionally

  • Teams that act without constant escalation

  • Reduced burnout at management level

  • More consistent performance across departments

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Commercial Outcome: Stronger leadership leverage and less reliance on heroic effort.

HR Advisory & Lean, Intact People Systems

What This Actually Means

HR should make the business easier to run — not harder. This service focuses on lean, legally sound, and behaviourally effective people systems that support growth instead of slowing it down.

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Typical Symptoms We Fix

  • HR policies no one follows

  • Performance management that doesn’t manage performance

  • Inconsistent disciplinary processes

  • Reward systems that incentivise the wrong behaviour

  • Managers afraid to manage

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What We Do

  • Review and simplify HR policies and procedures

  • Align performance management with real business outcomes

  • Design fair, clear disciplinary and grievance processes

  • Create reward and incentive structures that reinforce desired behaviour

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What This Delivers for You

  • Reduced people risk and legal exposure

  • Clear expectations and consequences

  • Managers who manage with confidence

  • HR systems that support speed, fairness, and accountability

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Commercial Outcome: Lower risk, lower friction, and higher productivity per employee.

How This Works for Clients

Diagnosis → Behaviour Change → System Alignment → Performance Lift

Step 1: Diagnose the People System

We identify where behaviour, structure, and incentives are misaligned.

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Step 2: Target High-Leverage Fixes

We focus on small, high-impact changes — not large-scale disruption.

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Step 3: Implement With Leaders

Changes are embedded through leadership behaviour, not policy documents.

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Step 4: Reinforce Through Systems

HR, performance, and reward systems are adjusted to sustain change.

Who This is For

Suitable for:​

  • Medium-sized businesses (50–500 employees)

  • Established organisations (3+ years)

  • Leadership teams serious about performance

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Not suitable for:

  • Startups

  • Businesses looking for motivational talks

  • Organisations unwilling to address leadership behaviour

The Bottom Line

If your business has capable people but inconsistent performance, the problem is rarely effort. It is almost always the system people are operating inside.

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Tree Consulting fixes the system — so your people can perform.

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