Corporate Performance Protocol · HR Directors · C-Suite · Benefits Brokers

Your highest-value people are the least likely to ask for help.

The professionals carrying the most responsibility are managing something privately that is costing you more than you can measure. PRC Workforce gives them a structured, confidential route back to full performance — without clinical involvement, without HR flags, and without anyone needing to know.

No clinical pathway No HR flags No names recorded 90-day structured protocol Results by Day 30
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£51bn Annual cost of workforce underperformance to UK employers — driven primarily by presenteeism, not absence Deloitte, 2024
22.1M Working days lost to work-related stress in 2024/25 — a record high in Great Britain HSE, 2025
1 in 4 UK workers say a personal issue is currently affecting their performance at work. Most are not disclosing it. CIPD, 2024
£3,000+ Estimated annual productivity loss per affected employee — before absence, errors, or staff turnover are counted Deloitte, 2024

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Underperformance Is Rarely What It Looks Like.

The people presenting the biggest performance gap are often the ones still delivering at the surface. They are not absent. They are not flagged. They are operating at 70% of their standard and no existing process is designed to reach them.

01

Presenteeism over absence

The visible cost is absence. The real cost is presence without full output. A senior professional operating at 70% capacity for six months costs more than a week of sick leave. It does not appear on any absence report.

02

The disclosure barrier

High-functioning professionals will not self-refer to an EAP. They will not raise a hand in a group setting. The career risk is too high, the stigma is too visible, and the format is wrong for how they operate.

03

Decision quality decline

The compounding effect is rarely seen in one moment. It is in the proposal that went out at 80%. The meeting where they were present but not sharp. The decision reworked the next morning. It stacks invisibly.

04

Talent retention risk

Unaddressed performance gaps do not stabilise. They widen. Eventually the person leaves, is managed out, or continues at reduced capacity indefinitely. None of those outcomes is cheaper than early intervention.

Your Current Offer Is the Wrong Format.

Standard employee support programmes and clinical referral routes are built for people who will self-identify. Your highest-value people will not self-identify. The format is the barrier — not the person.

The barrier

EAP referral

Requires the employee to self-refer into a clinical pathway. For senior professionals, this carries career risk, identity cost, and visible stigma. Most will not use it regardless of how good the service is.

The barrier

Group programmes

Shared identity, shared space, shared disclosure. Everything about this format signals risk to a high-functioning professional who has spent years managing their presentation carefully.

The barrier

Manager-led support

Requires the person to disclose to someone in their direct professional chain. The career implications are too visible. Most professionals will perform through a performance review rather than disclose the real cause.

What PRC Workforce does differently

PRC Workforce is not a clinical programme. It is a behavioural-operations protocol delivered by daily email. No group. No meetings. No disclosure to anyone inside the organisation. The employee engages entirely privately, on their own terms, at a time that suits them. The only thing your organisation sees is that the seat is occupied. No names. No data. No HR involvement beyond the initial procurement decision.

Here is exactly how the 90-day structure works — and what your people experience from Day 1.

Three Phases. Ninety Days. One Contact Per Day.

Structured, sequential, and entirely private. No calls. No appointments. No clinical involvement. The protocol runs in the background of a working life without disrupting it.

01 Days 1–30 · Map

Map the pattern.

The first 30 days make visible what has never been formally examined. The trigger sequence. The 90 minutes before the default. The real operational cost — cumulative, not dramatic. You cannot change what you have not mapped.

By Day 30: A complete map of the default pattern, its triggers, and its operational cost.
02 Days 31–60 · Investigate

Understand the mechanism.

Why does the trigger produce that response? What function is the default serving? What would meet that need without the cost? This is an engineering question, not a moral one. The answer is structural.

By Day 60: The mechanism is understood. A structural replacement is in place.
03 Days 61–90 · Install

Install new defaults.

Replaces the automatic response with a deliberate one. Builds the operating system that runs without effort, without willpower, and without the programme. The new default becomes autonomous. Performance is restored.

By Day 90: New defaults run without the protocol. Output restored to standard.

The programme reaches your people through three private channels — none of which touch your organisation's infrastructure.

Three Channels. Zero Workplace Footprint.

PRC Workforce is delivered through three private channels. None of them touch your organisation's infrastructure. There is no software to install, no IT involvement, and no data that passes through your systems.

Channel 01

Personal email

Daily protocol content delivered to a personal email address registered by the participant. No work email involved at any stage. Content is structured, sequential, and self-contained.

Channel 02

SMS check-ins

Structured SMS prompts at critical protocol intervals. Brief, specific, and operational. No clinical language. No group contact. One participant, one thread.

Channel 03

Signal messaging

End-to-end encrypted. No data stored on third-party servers. Used for milestone check-ins and protocol adjustments where needed. Chosen specifically because it does not retain message history.

Your Organisation Sees Nothing That Matters.

The privacy architecture is not a feature. It is the reason the protocol works. Professionals in this position will only engage if disclosure is structurally impossible — not just promised.

Protected

Seat numbers only

Your organisation purchases seats. Each seat is assigned a number. No name is ever attached to a seat at any point. The reporting you receive shows seats occupied, seats active, and aggregate completion data. Nothing else.

Protected

No HR pathway

PRC Workforce is procured as a performance investment, not a clinical referral. HR is involved in the purchase decision. HR is not involved in any individual's participation. The two are structurally separated.

Protected

No data sharing

Individual response data, progress data, and worksheet content is held by the PRC system only. It is never shared with the employer, never made available to HR, and never referenced in any workplace communication.

Protected

No labels attached

Participants are not assigned a diagnosis, a category, or a clinical identity. They are running a 90-day operational protocol. That is the only descriptor that applies — and it carries no stigma inside or outside the organisation.

The system records everything. Your organisation sees nothing. No names. No identifying data. Only seat numbers and results.

Built From Experience. Not Market Analysis.

Jon Cull
Founder, Professional Reality Check™
20 years direct experience
  • Behavioural systems specialist
  • Built from direct operational experience
  • Not theory, courses, or books
  • Frontline helpline and community services
  • Has been exactly where your people are

"PRC was not built from a market gap analysis. It was built because I needed it — and nothing like it existed."

I was running a business at the time. Investors, clients, colleagues — people whose opinion of me was directly connected to outcomes. The idea of anyone knowing what I was privately managing was not something I could afford. Not even a hint of it.

I kept performing. Right up until the point where the cost became impossible to ignore. The deals that didn't close. The proposals that went out at 80%. The weeks I was doing six days' work in five and still falling behind. Stuff was being dropped, forgotten, ignored. I didn't see it at the time. I can see it clearly now.

What I needed was something private, mechanical, and structured. Something that did not require me to adopt a label or explain myself to anyone inside my professional world. Something that treated me as an intelligent adult who had developed an expensive default under sustained pressure — and gave me a structured way to change it.

Nothing like that existed. So I built it. PRC Workforce is that system — built by someone who has been exactly where your people are, and who understands the mechanism well enough to change it without requiring disclosure, clinical involvement, or career risk.

The Cost of Inaction Is Already On Your Books.

You do not need to calculate the cost of PRC Workforce. You need to calculate the cost of the gap that already exists — and compare it to the investment required to close it.

Presenteeism cost

A senior professional on a £70,000 salary operating at 70% capacity for six months represents approximately £10,500 in lost output. At 80% capacity for a full year, the figure doubles. Neither appears on any absence report.

Replacement cost

CIPD research places the average cost of replacing a senior employee at 100–150% of annual salary when recruitment, onboarding, and performance ramp are included. PRC Workforce costs a fraction of a single replacement.

Decision quality cost

Senior professionals are paid for the quality of their decisions. A pattern of impaired decision-making — proposals at 80%, reworked outputs, missed signals — compounds in ways that do not show on any dashboard. They show in results.

One recovered senior professional pays for an entire pilot programme. The arbitrage is not subtle. The question is not whether the investment makes sense — it is whether the gap is already costing more than you are measuring.

What HR Directors Ask First.

These are the questions that come up in every initial conversation. Answered directly.

Is PRC Workforce GDPR compliant?
Yes. Participants register using a personal email address and are identified only by seat number. No personally identifiable data is held against an employer record. PRC operates as a data processor under ICO registration. Full data processing documentation is available on request.
Does this replace our EAP?
No. PRC Workforce sits alongside your existing EAP provision. It reaches the cohort your EAP was never designed for — high-functioning professionals who will not self-refer into a clinical pathway. Think of it as the layer your EAP cannot access.
What does our IT team need to do?
Nothing. PRC Workforce uses no software, no platform access, and no integration with your systems. Delivery is by personal email, SMS, and Signal. There is no IT involvement at any stage.
Who decides which employees get a seat?
You do. Seats can be allocated by HR, offered through a benefits portal, or made available as an opt-in resource. PRC does not prescribe how seats are distributed — that is an internal decision for your organisation.
What if an employee is in the middle of a performance management process?
PRC Workforce is designed for professionals who are still functioning — not those in formal capability or disciplinary processes. If in doubt, book a call and we will advise on whether PRC is appropriate for your specific situation.
Is there clinical liability for our organisation?
No. PRC Workforce is a structured performance programme, not a clinical intervention. It carries no clinical classification, no diagnostic framework, and no therapeutic component. It does not replace occupational health provision and does not affect your duty of care obligations.

Three Tiers. One Protocol.

All tiers include the full 90-day protocol delivered to each seat. Pricing is per cohort, not per head. The only difference between tiers is the level of reporting and strategic engagement.

Seats activated within 48 hours of procurement · No IT infrastructure required · No clinical classification
Pilot
£1,750
Up to 5 seats · 90-day protocol · One cohort
  • 5 protocol seats
  • Full 90-day email delivery
  • 14 structured worksheets
  • Seat-level completion data
  • End-of-pilot summary report
  • No HR or clinical involvement
The cost of one underperforming senior hire.
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Enterprise
£8,750
Up to 50 seats · Annual licence · Multi-cohort
  • 50 protocol seats
  • Full 90-day email delivery
  • 14 structured worksheets
  • Monthly aggregate reporting
  • Board-level briefing available
  • Bespoke protocol adjustments
  • Benefits broker integration
  • Annual licence renewal
Priced against the cost of the gap it closes.
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All tiers procured as a performance investment · No clinical classification · Secure payment via Stripe · Seats activated within 48 hours of procurement

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An initial enquiry carries no obligation and no clinical classification. You are making a procurement enquiry about a performance protocol. That is it.

Jon Cull will respond personally within one working day. You will receive a strategic brief outlining the protocol, the privacy architecture, and the financial case relevant to your organisation's size and sector.

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The gap is already open. Every week it stays open, it compounds.

PRC Workforce is the only structured protocol built specifically for professionals who will not self-identify through conventional routes. The format is the fix. Request a brief and see the full financial case for your organisation.

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PRC Workforce is a structured 90-day protocol delivered by daily email. It is not a medical treatment, clinical programme, or substitute for occupational health provision. It does not replace your organisation's duty of care obligations. It is designed as a performance intervention for professionals who are still functioning and wish to address a default coping response privately, without clinical classification or workplace disclosure. Individual results may vary.