Your team isnât
âunmotivatedâ.
Youâre just bleeding productivity because the truth isnât surfacing early enough.
If you want faster decisions, less rework, fewer missed signals, and a team that actually owns problems before they hit the client - you donât need another strategy deck.
You need a repeatable conversation rhythm that makes performance visible again.
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The problem youâre living with
Even if no one says it out loud
Youâre not lying awake at night wishing your team would âtalk moreâ.
Youâre lying awake thinking about:
- Lost productivity
- Rework and mistakes that shouldâve been avoidable
- Missed signals (too late to fix, once the clientâs already felt it)
- Slow decisions that drag everything down
- Problems surfacing late - when theyâre expensive
- Bare minimum energy and invisible disengagement, and
- The knock-on effect on customers, cashflow, and credibility.
And the most irritating part?
You canât fix what you canât see.
And right now, too much of what matters is staying unspoken.
Micro truth
(the one nobody admits)
Most businesses like yours donât have a âpeople problemâ.
They have a signal problem.
The signal is trapped:
- In peopleâs heads
- In WhatsApps and side chats
- In quiet resentment
- In âitâs fineâ silence
- In meetings that are too formal for honesty, and
- In leaders carrying everything because no one else is stepping up.
Now imagine this instead
Imagine you could walk into next week with a team that:
- Spots issues early - before they become client problems.
- Makes decisions faster - without everything bouncing back to you.
- Raises blockers without drama - and fixes them quickly.
- Shares ideas that save time and money - because itâs safe to speak.
- Owns actions - without you chasing and rescuing.
- Feels lighter to lead - because itâs no longer all on you.
Not through a restructure. Not through another âinitiativeâ.
Just through one simple change: the right conversations, on repeat.
Yes - I want that rhythm
Your Mission
should you choose to accept it
Transform how your team communicates, collaborates and performs - one conversation at a time.
Thatâs it. Thatâs the whole point.                 Â
Coffee Huddle⢠is the simplest way to start shifting your business from:
done-to, top-down, silent compliance
to
people-first, two-way, ownership-driven performance
This isnât theory. Itâs built from real businesses.
I didnât create this from a whiteboard or a weekend brainstorm.
I built it from years spent inside organisations like yours â watching capable people struggle in systems that were never designed for modern work.
Hereâs what I see again and again:
- Good people waiting for direction instead of taking ownership.
- Problems surfacing too late â after clients feel the impact.
- Decisions dragging because no one is quite sure who owns what.
- Leaders carrying far too much in their heads, firefighting instead of building.
- Teams working hard, but not always on the right things.
Not because people donât care.
But because the way work happens hasnât kept up with how business now operates.
Iâve seen what happens when you change how conversations happen â not with more meetings, more tools, or more pressure, but with simple, repeatable structures that give people permission to speak up, take ownership, and act sooner.
Thatâs what Coffee Huddle⢠was built to unlock â one conversation at a time.
No fluff.
No motivation posters.
Just practical, human systems that surface reality earlier, reduce friction, and create momentum where itâs been missing.
Why this worksÂ
(when other things donât)
Most initiatives fail because they rely on intention.
This works because it changes behaviour.
It doesnât ask people to:
- Be more engaged
- Communicate better, or
- Take more responsibility.
It gives you a clear, repeatable way to do it â in the flow of real work.
Thatâs why leaders tell me this feels:
- Lighter, not heavier
- Faster, not slower
- More honest, not more exhausting.
And why teams often say:
âThis is the first time weâve actually talked about what gets in the way.â
If youâre wondering whether this will work for your businessâŚ
Your business relies on people, right? â their judgement, decisions, energy, and follow-through â so then this naturally applies to your business.
This was designed for:
- Service-based businesses
- Hybrid or growing teams
- Businesses that need to adapt, not stand still (which should be allâŚ).
It doesnât matter whether youâre at 20 people or 200 people.
The patterns are the same.
Only the scale changes.
The Barista Challenge
This isnât âbuy and hopeâ.
Inside Coffee Huddleâ˘, youâll follow the Barista Challenge - a guided 8 step mini pathway that makes it ridiculously easy to implement.
Youâll:
- Pick your first huddle style
- Run it with confidence (without awkwardness)
- Collect momentum fast, and
- Build a repeatable rhythm your team actually enjoys.
It isnât a course.
Itâs a conversation-led transformation.
Itâs simple. Light. Fast to action.
What Coffee Huddleâ˘
actually is
Coffee Huddle⢠is a ready-to-run conversation system for modern teams.
Built for Business. Backed by Behavioural Insight.
Not fluffy chat prompts.
Not a âculture workshopâ.
Not another meeting.
Itâs a plug-in rhythm that helps you:
- Surface reality early
- Build clarity and ownership
- Strengthen engagement
- Unlock improvement ideas, and
- Keep performance moving - without burning you out.
You can run it:
- In-office, hybrid, remote
- On laptops or phones
- In 20-30 minutes
- Weekly, twice weekly, or in bursts when you need traction.
And you can start seeing a difference within days - because the win is immediate: you finally hear whatâs really going on.
What you get
(the full toolkit)
Coffee Huddle⢠includes:
- A quick-start guide so youâre not overthinking it
- The core huddle formats (so you can match the moment)
- Prompt sets that make honesty easier
- Facilitation cues (so it doesnât turn into a moan-fest) and
- Simple action capture (so conversations lead to change).
Everything is written so you can run it even if youâre tired, busy, and fed up of carrying the business.
This is the part most leaders miss
You donât need âmore outputâ.
You need better flow:
- Better truth flow
- Better decision flow
- Better ownership flow
- Better improvement flow.
Coffee Huddle⢠is how you start that - without making your world heavier.
Itâs the starter engine.Â
Why this matters commercially (Not just culturally)
Gallup estimates low engagement costs the global economy trillions in lost productivity. Gallup.com
You donât need the global number, though.
You feel your version of it every week:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
- The time sink of avoidable confusion
- The cost of rework
- The ânearlyâ mistakes
- The slow handovers
- The quiet disengagement
- The customer experience slipping by inches.
Coffee Huddle⢠is built to stop that bleed - fast.
Why the next 12â24 months matter more than the last 10 years
The ground has shifted whether you like it or not.
- AI is accelerating change and competition rules
- Intergenerational communication and working preferences, behaviours and expectations are
clashing, and - Old ways of working donât work like they used to.
If you rely on:
- Informal communication
- Heroic leadership
- People âjust knowing what to doâ.
Youâre carrying more risk than you think.
The next 12â24 months will quietly determine whether:
Your business adapts and strengthens, or
Slowly drifts, without a single obvious breaking point.
Standing still isnât neutral anymore.
Itâs the most expensive option.
What this is really costing you
When your people arenât aligned, empowered or able to raise issues early:
- Work takes longer than it should
- Mistakes repeat
- Energy leaks everywhere
- You become the decision bottleneck, and
- Customers feel the impact before you do.
Even small inefficiencies, repeated week after week, can cost you tens - sometimes hundreds - of thousands in lost time, wasted effort and missed opportunity.
You donât need a spreadsheet to feel this.
You already do.
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Why listenÂ
to me
Iâm Catherine Armshaw.
Iâve spent 20+ years working with business leaders and organisations trying to make âchangeâ work. Watching traditional, top-down theoretical approaches quietly fail in the process.
And it nearly always boils down to one thing: communication breakdowns.
Coffee Huddle⢠exists because Iâve seen what happens when:
- Leaders donât get the truth early enough
- Staff stop speaking up
- Hybrid working amplifies silence, and
- Performance issues become expensive before anyone names them.
This is the simpler, faster, people-first system I wish more businesses had adopted years ago.
Coffee Huddle⢠is the antidote to all of that.
Who this is for
Coffee Huddle⢠is for you if:
- You run an SME and youâre done carrying it all
- You want higher productivity without squeezing people harder
- You need faster decisions and fewer mistakes
- You want a team that owns problems and improvements, and
- Youâre serious about building a business that can handle 2026 and beyond.
 Itâs not for you if:
- You want a quick fix without changing how you lead
- You donât want staff voice or ownership (because thatâs the whole point), or
- Youâre looking for a long training course (this is action-first).Â
Price and what to do next
This is a small investment cost of: Â
ÂŁ197
Compare this to:
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One avoidable client issue
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One resignation you didnât see coming
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One month of dragging decisions, or
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One quarter of flat performance because no one is speaking up.
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Get PEOPLE Principles⢠Diagnostic nowFrequently Asked Questions
Is this just âmore meetingsâ?
No. It replaces vague, ineffective catch-ups with a short, structured rhythm that actually produces clarity and action.
Will this work in a non-office environment (warehouse, on-site, frontline)?
Yes. The formats are designed to work wherever teams operate - short, practical, and easy to run.
Can I use this in a fully remote team?
Yes. It works anywhere - Zoom, office, outdoors.
What if my team is quiet or cynical?
Thatâs normal. Coffee Huddle⢠is built to make participation safer and easier - without forcing âsharing circlesâ.
How fast will I see results?
Most leaders feel a shift immediately - because the first win is truth surfacing. The performance lift follows as you repeat the rhythm.
Isnât this just another meeting?
No. Coffee Huddle⢠is a ritual. 20 minutes that surface what reports and stand-ups never do.
We already do stand-ups. Why both?
Stand-ups track tasks. Huddles surface ideas, issues, and energy. Together, they cover the full picture.
What if my team is small?
Even better. Coffee Huddle⢠scales with you.
Weâre already so busy. How do we find the time?
Itâs 20 minutes - and saves hours.
What if my team wonât talk?
The prompts break the silence. Even the quietest voices open up once the space feels safe.Â
Is it expensive?
No. Itâs ÂŁ147 - less than a team meal out. One avoided resignation saves thousands.
Guarantee
Try it risk-free. If after 7 days along the challenge you donât start to see a shift in how your team shows up, Iâll refund you. No questions asked.
You can keep hoping things
  settle downâ.
Or you can build the one thing most businesses are missing:
A consistent rhythm where reality surfaces early - and performance can actually improve.
Yes - Iâm ready to start Coffee Huddleâ˘