Your business, scored honestly, in ninety minutes
The free Business Health Check. Six parts of your business, scored out loud with you. Not a sales pitch with a form attached, a diagnosis, including the bits I cannot help you with.
A made-up example, and a very ordinary one. The interesting part is not the 31, it is that the two lowest are Strategy and Sales, and that fixing Sales first would be the wrong order.
Three steps, one scorecard
The six areas you score in the webinar workbook are the same six we score here, and the same six we re-score every quarter once coaching starts. Start at any step, stop at any step.
The free AI webinar
Ninety minutes on where AI actually saves an Australian small business time and money. You score your six areas in the workbook.
Register →The free Business Health Check
Ninety minutes, one-to-one. We score the same six areas properly and name the three things holding the business back.
Book now →Coaching, if you want it
One-to-one or the Growth Circle. Same six areas, re-scored every quarter, so you can see whether it is working.
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A diagnosis, before anybody talks about coaching
You already know something is not right. What is harder is naming which thing to fix first, and in what order, because sequence matters more than effort.
You do about twenty minutes of pre-work on your own. Then we sit down for ninety minutes and score six areas of your business together. I score them out loud, with you, and tell you why each one is what it is. No form filling, no questionnaire emailed back a week later.
If an area scores low because of something outside what I do, I will say so and point you somewhere better. You keep the one-page summary either way, take it to your accountant.
Every small business has the same six areas
Nobody is good at all six, and nobody needs to be. Two of them are usually carrying the problem. Each is scored out of ten, against questions like these.
Where the business is going, and how the big decisions actually get made.
Twenty minutes of prep, ninety minutes together, then a follow-up
What the business does and who for, roughly what you turned over, how many people, how many hours you work, the task you would stop tomorrow, and what made you book.
Fifteen minutes each. I score them out loud and tell you why. Bring last quarter’s numbers if you are comfortable. I do not keep a copy.
Which is not always lowest score first. You do not fix marketing in a business that cannot deliver, and you do not fix delivery in a business with no cash.
Did anything change? What got stuck? No obligation attached to it, and no sequence chasing you afterwards.
Six lines side by side with the first set. The only honest measure of whether anything is working, whether or not you ever pay me anything.
Your business, out of sixty
The total matters far less than which two areas are lowest, and whether they move in ninety days. Almost every business improves the part it measures, and almost none improve the parts it never looks at.
A 34 out of 60 is not a failing business, it is a normal one with two things worth fixing.
The business works. What is usually missing at this level is the owner getting out of it. Look hard at Operations and Strategy.
Where most Australian small businesses sit. One or two areas are dragging the rest down, and fixing them in sequence is very doable.
Do not try to fix everything. One area, ninety days, then re-score.
If cash is the problem, that is an accountant or a restructuring adviser before it is a coach. I will tell you that if it is what I see.
Three things you should know
Some of what you need is free, and it is not mine. Where the answer is a free or low-cost service that already exists, that is what goes in your summary.
Coaching is educational and motivational support. It is not accounting, tax, legal or financial advice. The point of the Finance area is to help you ask your accountant better questions. I make no guarantee about outcomes.
Confidential in both directions. If you go on to join the Growth Circle, nothing from this conversation goes into that room unless you put it there yourself.
If an area scores low because of an employment problem, a genuine insolvency risk, or something about you rather than the business, I will point you somewhere better, and it goes in your summary.
Fair Work Ombudsman, or an employment lawyer. Do not guess at this one.
Your accountant. If you have not got one, that is the first thing to fix.
A registered insolvency or restructuring adviser, early rather than late. ASBFEO runs a free small business hub.
Digital Solutions through Realise Business, low-cost one-on-one advice if you are under twenty staff.
NewAccess for Small Business Owners, through Beyond Blue. Free, phone or video, no GP referral needed.
I will say so on the day and tell you who is. That is the whole point of doing this before anyone talks about coaching.
If you want a hand with it afterwards
Two ways to work together, and no pressure attached to either. We work out which one fits on the follow-up call, and sometimes the answer is neither, for now.
One-to-one coaching
For owners who want the whole conversation to be about their business, in private, on a fixed day every fortnight.
The Growth Circle
For owners who have been making every decision alone and are quietly tired of it. Eight owners, in a room, in Penrith.
Fees are not published here. We talk about them on the call, once we both know what you actually need, and only if coaching is the right answer at all.
Before you book
Coaching is educational and motivational support. It is not accounting, tax, legal or financial advice, and it is no substitute for your accountant, your bookkeeper or a lawyer.
Book the Health Check →Is it really free?+
Yes. Ninety minutes, plus a thirty-minute follow-up two weeks later, and you keep the written summary. No card, no trial, no sequence chasing you afterwards. It is free because it is also how I work out whether I can help you, and often the honest answer is that someone else can help you better.
What do I need to bring?+
The eight pre-work answers, and last quarter’s numbers if you are comfortable. You do not have to bring the numbers, and I do not keep a copy of anything you show me.
In person or online?+
Both. In person around Penrith, the Hawkesbury and greater Sydney; online anywhere in Australia. It works about equally well either way, which surprised me.
Will you try to sell me coaching at the end?+
No. The session ends with the three constraints and the referrals. If coaching looks like the right answer I will say so on the follow-up call, and if it does not, I will say that instead.
What if my business is too small, or too new?+
If you have no revenue yet there is not much to diagnose, and I will tell you that rather than take the time. From roughly your first employee upwards, it works.
Book the Health Check
Ninety minutes, free, no obligation of any kind. You leave with six scores, three constraints in the order I would deal with them, and a written page you keep, whether or not we ever work together.