HR Consulting Services
For Australian Businesses

Your Strategic HR Partner for SME Growth

We work alongside your business strategy to deliver world class Human Resource and Work Health and Safety solutions, practical advice and people focused expertise that drives sustainable business growth.

What We Do

CGC provides integrated HR consulting, outsourced HR services, WHS advisory and leadership development tailored to the needs of Australian SMEs.

We help time poor business owners and managers build systems that create clarity, reduce risk and improve performance. 

How to Get HR and WHS Right in a SME

If you are a busy business owner or manager, it’s likely you don’t have the time to develop and implemented detailed HR and WHS strategies. 

Here’s a quick guide covering the key areas to consider.

Don’t have the skills or time? 

FAQ

Issues We Help You Solve:

Hiring your first employee? Complete Starter Pack including a compliant employment agreement

If you’re about to hire your first team member, you want to ensure all documentation, processes and decisions comply with Fair Work and WHS requirements

What’s typically included:

What does success look like?
Your first hire is compliant, clear and low risk from Day One.

Not sure where your HR stands?

A CGC HR Compliance Review is a structured assessment of your people systems, employment practices, documentation and WHS obligations to ensure your business meets current legislative, award and regulatory requirements.
It highlights where you are exposed, what needs improvement, and where immediate action is required.

What we typically review:
Your review typically includes:

What does success look like?

It highlights where you are exposed, what needs improvement, and where immediate action is required.

To plan and deliver change safely, legally and with clarity for your team takes guidance to get it right whether it’s expansion, consolidation, new reporting lines or role changes.

Avoid a poorly executed restructure that can result in unfair dismissal claims, morale decline or reputational harm.

What’s typically delivered depending on business objectives:

What does success look like?

It highlights where you are exposed, what needs improvement, and where immediate action is required.

Develop clear, modern policies that support your leaders and team and protect your business.

What’s delivered

What does success look like?
Policies protect your business by setting expectations, guiding fair decisions, and creating consistency. Your leaders need to be able to manage according to them every day to avoid conflict or confusion.
It’s a challenge to stay compliant with evolving WHS and psychosocial safety requirements

What’s delivered depending on assessment risk:

What does success look like?
Protecting your business from regulatory action and improving employee wellbeing, reducing turnover and safety incidents.
Handling behaviour, performance and team fit issues confidently and lawfully is stressful for managers and their teams. We support you to manage challenging behaviours, conflict, underperformance and team compatibility issues.
What’s delivered
What does success look like?
Poorly managed issues can escalate into bullying or harassment claim, unfair dismissal disputes, or team dysfunction. We help you navigate these situations professionally, safely and with compliance.
Build capable, confident leaders who support performance and culture
What’s delivered
What does success look like?
Leaders with low capability unintentionally create compliance, performance and culture risks. We help leaders build skills to make better decisions, support their people and reduce organisational risk.

Leadership Coaching for Emerging Leaders

Our programs uplift leadership capability across your business and prepare your future leaders for growth.

Our mentoring program is Ideal for emerging leaders who may be:

Our programs include

CGC is a certified REACH (Lx) practitioner focused on building
capable leaders and high performance cultures in collaboration with FGS Advisory part of the global gold partner Network

People and Technology Advisory

Our goal is to help clients thrive by implementing modern,
industry-leading HR and WHS technologies.

We support you to:

Identify required functionality
Select and implement cloud technology
Train your managers and team members to use your
platforms effectively.

Or we can manage it for you as part of an outsourced/insourced HR service, ensuring consistency, compliance and effectiveness across your organisation.

Experience REACH (Lx) Platform now

Focus on leaders developing others and
creating a performance culture.

Employee HR & WHS Onboarding

A Critical Business Priority

We design onboarding frameworks that strengthen culture,
accelerate capability and engage employees from Day One.

Creating Psychologically Health and Safe Workplaces.

With new Codes of Practice and Psychosocial Regulations being
implemented, businesses must proactively address psychosocial
hazards.

Your people may be experiencing:

CGC can help you implement a three-stage WHS and psychosocial hazard management plan, strengthening resilience and building a safer workplace.
Testimonials

What Our Clients Say .....

Why Clifton Group Consulting ?

HR and WHS Consulting – Leadership Development – People and Culture Advisory

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

Contact

We’d love to hear from you

Whether you have a one-off project, need outsourced HR support, help with Work Health Safety and psychosocial compliance, or advanced leadership coaching get in touch to find out how we can support your business