
SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE: What every organisation needs if it desires to be successful over time
Bring a number of business leaders together there are usually a number of common topics on “what keeps the CEO up at night” that crop up in conversations which are pretty universal across all sectors. These include:
- The pressure from stakeholders to always deliver more with less – i.e. be more productive
- Holding on to key skills and your best people in an ever-more-so employee-centric marketplace
- To have quality leadership top to bottom, through the organisation
- To develop a strong, adaptable organisational structure and culture
The primary goal for all organisations is to deliver the results it values in the most productive way it can. Continuous pressure to do more with less means high performance needs to be repeatable. Therefore productivity growth over time is the key deliverable. Yet our ability to grow productivity in work has been poor over recent years.
The performance motive has become detached from the healthy culture motive. Positive cultural initiatives have become billion-dollar industries, becoming ever more expensive enterprises with questionable return on investment, resulting in recent high-profile backlashes towards inclusivity activity.
However, high performance over time requires certain people-centred activities to be in place to enable the activity and behaviour of high performance. Stopping all “non-KPI” activity is like cutting your nose off to spite your face.
What is Sustainable Performance?
Using our years of experience, organisational knowledge and academic research into proven work culture and performance related behaviours, we have created the Sustainable Performance Framework. By identifying causal relationships between leadership activity, positive culture growth and the drivers of performance, our Sustainable Performance Framework brings these together to enable organisations to precisely activate the right behaviours that underpin REAL performance and productivity that matters to you and your stakeholders.

We have identified 12 components, grouped under 5 facets, that connect the wellbeing of your people DIRECTLY with the ability to innovate, be agile and execute the right results.
Each of the 12 components is underpinned by proven research from a diverse set of sources that enables you to use the Sustainable Performance Framework with confidence to improve your results over time.
Designed as an easy-to-implement diagnostic, the Sustainable Performance Framework identifies your organisations current strengths and highlights opportunities for improvement from the diagnostic data that can be reviewed by organisation, division and local team.
Our solutions are created as building block elements that can be configured to the needs of your local teams giving precision learning and action exactly where it needs to be. In this way, the Sustainable Performance Framework is a cost-effective precise tool to get the right behavioural change in the right people at the right time. Delivered quickly with minimal distraction and waste for your organisation, our average deployment time is 4 to 6 weeks.
How does it work?
We believe in an easy-to-understand transparent relationship with our customers.
If you want to understand how the Sustainable Performance Diagnostic works then you can do the questionnaire right now for FREE and instantly get a simple report of top line results delivered to your inbox. You can also see sample reports here.

If you would like to see a number of example solutions using the Sustainable Performance Framework for individuals, teams and organisations, click on this button to see some of our packages with costs for each.
We truly believe that the Sustainable Performance Framework adds value to all organisations. We are happy to set up single team deployments as a test bed for wider adoption. Contact us of book one of the solutions on our solutions page.
Helping your CEO sleep...
Going back to what keeps your CEO up at night, see how the Sustainable Performance Framework can help solve your CEOs problems:
– The pressure from stakeholders to always deliver more with less – i.e. be more productive
The Sustainable Performance Framework identifies activities components that connect individual motivation to organisational goals. This unlocks pride in work and goal focused drive that increases personal effectiveness in the individual. In addition, other components are focused on overcoming blockers to performance, creative innovation and accountable execution of strategy, all leading to higher productivity.
– Holding on to key skills and your best people in an ever-more-so employee-centric marketplace
By tapping into intrinsic motivators, we maximise the connection between the passion and goals of the individual with the passion and goals of the organisation. This “stickiness” retains your best people for longer through active line management engagement.
– To have quality leadership top to bottom, through the organisation
One of the core premises of all of the 12 components of the Sustainable Performance Framework is the development of the line manager in behaviour change. It is the line manager that makes or breaks local cultures. With a more dispersed set of employees in most organisations it is critical that line managers are the key to unlock Sustainable Performance.
– To develop a strong, adaptable organisational structure and culture
Around half of the Sustainable Performance Framework directly deals with the human behaviour to create trusting, emotionally intelligent team environments that create strong employee connections. Performance components identify agile and innovative growth mindsets to ensure adaptability is core to any cultural considerations.


