People cost calculator
What’s poor performance really costing your business?
Hidden people blockers — like weak management, disengagement, and communication breakdowns — drain time, energy, and profit. Our free calculator shows you the true cost in minutes.
One quick calculation. One big reality check.
Every organisation has people issues — but most leaders underestimate the impact. Staff turnover, absenteeism, low morale and misalignment all add up. The People-Powered Performance Cost Calculator below helps you put a number on it.
Small changes, big savings.
Fixing just one blocker could save your organisation thousands of pounds a year. Our People-Powered Performance programme combines:
- A full organisational audit
- Coaching support to resolve your biggest issue
- A measurable “quick win” within weeks
So whether you start with the calculator or go straight to an audit, you’ll see the ROI of people performance fast.
Please try the Calculator Below to see what you could save
FAQ's
Where have you used data from?
ABSENCE :
While some absence is genuinely unavoidable, a range of studies suggest that a sizable slice – roughly 20–30 % of absence can be prevented or shortened (Figures used here are based on 2023 research)
STAFF TURNOVER:
CIPD estimate on average £19k to re-fill a Manager role in recruitment cost and not including indirect costs including lost output, customer impact, HR/line-manager time, employer-branding drag, etc. Depending on the sector and the complexity of onboarding, indirect costs can push total turnover cost up to 80–200 % of salary.
Interestingly, the average employee turnover rate for UK workers is currently 35% (20250
REWORK:
Based on UK average output value statistics and typical internal failure (rework) rates in a mature quality system.
I can see there is money to save, what do I do now?
We run a four-step process in our People-Powered Performance:
- DISCOVERY PHASE Initial diagnosis / audit of your people performance with report and recommendations
- QUICK WIN Optional initial sprint to improve one area and immediately start to see improvements
- DEEP DIVE Exploration and analysis into agreed areas (could be the whole company, a project or a specific process) to explore the systemic issues at play
- TRANSFORMATION long term support to transform culture, behaviours and engagement in a way to deliver a real ROI for your business.
I want to know more and talk through how it works, who do I talk to?
Your best bet is to book a 30 min call with either Lucy or Heather to talk through your specific objectives and concerns and let’s see if we think we can help (we’ll be honest if we don’t think its worth it).
Drop us an email using the contact form (or just use lucy@ or heather@ for direct email address).
I want a roll-out of quick courses to fill the training gap, can you do that?
We don’t offer a quick fix to difficult challenges such as leadership, relationships, collaboration and agility. Just as with driving, learning a new skill and applying it well in different circumstances takes time. We don’t believe in shortcuts to mastering these, but we do believe in momentum.
You can therefore use our rapid-access learning modules. These are designed to spark insight fast, helping individuals and teams identify capability gaps, surface strengths and accelerate development.
Combine them with your internal support and leadership and you’ll start to see a difference. We can help you build support around them to build change momentum.
Will you keep what you learn to yourselves?
Absolutely. Confidentiality is so important to the work we do, whether individual coaching, senior team strategy, people concerns and business performance details. We’re used to working with people in highly-regulated, secretive industries and have perfected the art of forgetting the detail of what we know.
We start the process of this work with a confidentiality agreement to give you confidence. Again, just talk to us if you have any more questions 🙂