The People Firefighting Scorecard

Are your people problems actually under control… or are they quietly setting fire to your week?

You didn’t start your business to become a full-time referee, therapist, employment law researcher and holiday entitlement calculator.

But here we are.

Someone’s off sick again.
Someone else “just has a quick question.”
The team meeting went weird.
There’s a policy somewhere, probably.
And you’ve got a horrible feeling you’re making half of this up as you go along.

The People Firefighting Scorecard helps you work out whether your people stuff is:

Generally steady - a few wobbles, but nothing’s actively on fire.
Quietly smouldering - not a crisis yet, but something smells a bit smoky.
Full firefighting mode - …and you literally feel like burning it all down yourself and starting again.

In 5 minutes, you’ll get a simple score across the areas that usually make people problems flare up: conversations, clarity and culture.

No jargon.
No judgement.
No 47-page HR audit that makes you want to chew your own sleeve.

Just a quick, useful snapshot of what’s going on and what might need sorting before it turns into a bigger, messier thing.