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HR Consulting Services for Australian Businesses

We work with your business strategy to deliver world class human resource solutions, advice and expertise that optimises your business growth

HR and WHS Solutions for small to medium sized enterprises in Australia


If you are a busy business owner or manager, it’s likely that you don’t have the time to develop and implement detailed HR and WHS strategies. Here’s a quick start guide covering the key areas to consider – we’re able to help you with the details and implementation:

  1. Ensure you have a well thought through business plan including HR and WHS strategies
  2. Conduct annual HR and WHS audits
  3. Develop a detailed People Plan that supports your business strategy; including change management
  4. Recruit a virtual or outsourced HR provider to support you with HR and WHS plan development, audits, and implementation
  5. Deliver training to your people including coaching for managers
  6. Invest in People and WHS technology and platforms, and
  7. 1. Ensure management accountability by developing and implementing relevant performance frameworks and individual plans, including KPIs aligned with your People and WHS plans

Want to improve your HR Strategy and don’t have the skills or time? We’d love to hear from you.

Coaching Programs for Emerging Leaders.


Our objective is to uplift leadership capability across your organisation as an enabler of future strategic growth.

If your leaders and emerging talent are:

  • Required to effectively influence stakeholders;
  • Identified as emerging people leaders, or are
  • New people leaders managing direct reports for the first time

Then our Coaching Program for Emerging Leaders will accelerate and optimise their Personal Growth, build on existing Strengths, and provide SMART Action Plans.

The Program includes:

  • 8 One-on-One Coaching sessions
  • Individual reports covering Personal Styles, Leading and Communication Profiles
  • 12 months access to online reports and individually tailored micro courses.

CGC is a certified Reach Practitioner focused on creating capable leaders and a high-performance culture. If this program is of interest or you have other leadership goals, please contact us today for an obligation free consultation and demo.

Testimonials

Adrienne has worked with me and my business for many years. From HR compliance to comprehensive business strategy, Adrienne’s experience and advice has been invaluable in helping us to be focused on executing a well thought through 3–5-year strategy. Adrienne’s unique ability to ask hard questions takes you out of your comfort zone and challenges your thinking in a respectful and well-considered way. Her perspective on complex problems and opportunities is invaluable when it comes to planning out ‘What’s next.’ Without her input and guidance, there is no doubt our growth journey would have been far less deliberate and far slower. Adrienne’s genuine care for the best outcomes for our business and for our team is above and beyond your ‘normal’ consultant.


Daniel Richardson

Director

FGS Advisory (Australia and UK)

It’s difficult to articulate what CGC brings to our business because they are amazing at identifying our strengths and growth areas as well as our gaps and weaknesses. Adrienne has navigated us through ISO implementation and adherence, WHS frameworks and procedures and HR resources and support. CGC genuinely understands our business and has a vested interest in seeing our team succeed beyond their goals. Her mentorship has been invaluable to me, she understands how I work and how to get the best out of me so I can build the best team.


Hannah Grant

Country Manager

TITAN Containers New Zealand

Your insight and demonstrated leadership skills have proven invaluable to myself as a busy and time poor CEO. At all times, you have kept the company’s core goals and focus at the forefront, and I feel you ‘fully get’ our needs and objectives. As an ongoing part of our leadership and HR team, I feel that with solid systems and strategies I place we are ready for growth


Christina Campbell

Managing Director

ABAlink Early Intervention Services

Managing Performance for Success


High performance comes from giving and requesting timely feedback when it can have the most impact on performance – both at individual, team, and company level.

We find most employees want to be involved and recognised for their contribution but can’t relate to traditional performance appraisals.

CGC can help you plan a flexible performance management and KPI systems through:

  • Defining values – values are a core element of a high performing culture – we can run a workshop to create meaningful values that your employees engage and align with
  • Design of quarterly reviews and KPIs to empower employees to take accountability for their own career growth
  • Review Job analysis – hard and soft skill definition creates meaningful measurement, skill development and career goals.
  • Train leaders in the system and coach 2-way communication and providing and receiving constructive feedback
  • Build in innovation and review to keep your system relevant.

Talk to us about how we can review or create your performance management systems

Employee Onboarding a key business priority


We can show you new ways your managers can connect, communicate, develop, and engage new employees in their first six months.

We can help you:

  • Define values and communicate culture
  • Develop Employee Handbooks
  • Evaluate roles to establish technical and soft skills
  • Develop Onboarding Plans and Training Guides
  • Use tools to help new employees drive their own learning
  • Automate follow up reminders and suggestions, integrated with your existing systems, which help build and strengthen Manager to employee relationships
  • Measure progress, and
  • Coach Managers to deliver effective timely constructive feedback

Identify the best People tools that interface with your current systems.


Our goal is to see clients thrive through the implementation of best practices; more often than not, this involves the use of best in class, industry leading technology.

We can help you develop your user requirements for the functionality required by your organisation and support you with selecting and implement cloud HR and WHS platforms that you can use from a computer or iPad.

We can also support with onboarding and training your team on the new platforms, to ensure rapid adoption, effective utilisation, consistency, and compliance across your organisation no matter the Manager Team or Location.

Or

Alternatively, we can take care of the entire process and Manage the end-to-end platform implementation for your organisation.

As part of an outsourced/insourced HR Service we help give you peace of mind that you are successfully navigating the complexity and ever-changing regulatory environment.

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Creating a psychologically healthy and safe workplace


Why is it important for business to address psychosocial hazards?

More than a fifth of Australians aged 16 to 85 experienced mental health disorders in the previous 12 months. *

Your team may be exposed to a combination of psychosocial hazards, some always and others only occasionally.

**Australia’s Top Psychosocial Hazards include:

  • Inappropriate workload: having too much or too little work or responsibility
  • Low recognition: lack of positive feedback, recognition, or rewards for good work
  • Poor change management: lack of clear communication, consultation, or effective processes during workplace changes
  • Poor management support: inadequate assistance or guidance from leaders and
  • Low job control: limited control over decisions relating to how work if performed

With States and Territories implementing Codes of Practice or Psychological Health Regulations by 2024, there is a unique opportunity for all businesses to concurrently work on compliance and business improvement.

CGC can help you develop and implement a 3-stage plan to build the health and resilience of individuals in your business as a whole.

Take the first step by organising a management team briefing session.

*National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing 2020-22 (Australian Bureau of Statistics)

** Indicators of a Thriving Workforce Report 2023

We’d love to hear from you

Whether you have a one-off project, are looking for an outsourced HR service, need help identifying and implementing the best HR, Work Health Safety technology or want a coach for your emerging leaders, get in touch for an informal chat about getting the best out of your people.

With the benefit of more than 15 years’ experience working with Australian, UK, European and NZ private companies, together with a diverse background in business, HR and WHS Consulting, Leadership Coaching and Cloud Technologies, CGC can help you develop and implement a people strategy than can help you optimise your business.

+61 (0) 2 8006 2102

info@cliftongroup.net.au