Practical, people-first HR advisory for businesses that want to get it right.
Based in Buderim on the Sunshine Coast, we support businesses locally and across Australia. Get help with a specific people issue, put essential HR processes in place, or bring experienced support alongside your existing team.
Clear advice and practical tools for the people matters that keep landing on your desk.
Practical documents that are current and reflect how your business actually works.
Clear advice on employment changes and what they mean for your business.
Tools and guidance for fair, useful conversations before issues grow.
Careful support through disputes, investigations and difficult exits.
A practical review of your contracts, policies and people processes.
Clear, considered guidance when your business needs to change shape.
Ways to work together
HR Advisory helps with a specific issue or change. If you need the essentials in place or ongoing support, People Foundations and People Partnership offer two other ways to work together.
Focused support
For a specific people issue or change. Get practical advice and hands-on help with performance, complaints, employment documents or restructures, with the scope agreed before work starts.
Defined project
For businesses that need their HR basics in place. A defined project to review and develop the contracts, policies and people processes your team needs, with agreed deliverables.
Ongoing outsourced HR
For businesses that need ongoing HR support without building a full internal function. We work alongside your leaders on day-to-day people matters and agreed priorities as your team grows.
Support can include employment documents, onboarding, performance conversations, employee relations and guidance for your managers. We agree the priorities and how we will work with your team, then review them as the business changes.
Your proposal sets out the included work and how additional projects or specialist support will be scoped.
HR Systems & Technology
When technology is part of the answer, we can help assess fit, shape the HR processes around it and support implementation and adoption. We provide detailed Employment Hero implementation and HR support, and can help scope how Tanda may fit a rostered or shift-based workforce.
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Client example
Maroochy Home Assist provides home and community care across the Sunshine Coast. Happy Humans has supported its team with employment documents, SCHADS Award compliance, culture surveys and leadership development through an embedded HR partnership.
“Her support didn't stop once the changes were made.”
Testimonial excerpt · Julie Stacey, General Manager, Maroochy Home Assist
Read the Maroochy Home Assist case studyWe listen to what is happening in your business and what you need help with.
We agree on a practical approach that fits the situation and your business.
We provide clear guidance and useful tools, for as long as the work requires.
Pretty much anything involving your people.
That can include employment contracts and policies, Modern Awards, performance and conduct issues, complaints, investigations, restructures, redundancies, onboarding, offboarding and improving the people processes that sit behind your business.
Sometimes you need advice on what to do. Other times you need someone to help you actually do it. We can provide both.
Yes.
We help businesses understand their obligations under the Fair Work Act, Modern Awards and the National Employment Standards, and translate them into practical decisions about things like classifications, pay, hours, leave, contracts and employment conditions.
Employment law can get complicated quickly. Our job is to help you understand what applies to your business and what you need to do about it.
Yes. These are some of the most common situations we help businesses navigate.
We can help you work through performance concerns, conduct issues, complaints, conflict and difficult conversations, including what process to follow, what to document and what options are available.
The aim is to deal with the issue properly, fairly and early rather than let it become more complicated than it needs to be.
Absolutely.
You don’t need an ongoing HR arrangement to work with us. We can help with a specific employee issue, investigation, restructure, HR project or piece of advice and then step back when the work is done.
If the same types of issues keep coming up, we might suggest a more proactive approach, but you won’t be pushed into an ongoing service you don’t need.
Yes.
Our People Partnership gives businesses experienced HR support alongside their leadership team without needing to build a full internal HR function.
We get to know your business, your people and your priorities, then provide ongoing support across day-to-day HR, compliance, performance, leadership and longer-term people priorities.
We can also work alongside an existing HR or People & Culture person where additional capacity or senior support is needed.
It depends on what you need.
A specific HR matter or project is different from building your HR foundations or having ongoing support alongside your business, so we don’t force every client into the same package.
We’ll first understand what is happening, then recommend the level of support that makes sense. Sometimes that is a small piece of advisory work. Sometimes it is a defined project or an ongoing People Partnership.
The first conversation is free, so you can understand the options before deciding whether to proceed.
Tell us what is happening in your business and we’ll help you find the right place to start.
Let’s talk about your business