HR & Employee Lifecycle Support
HR Health Check
The HR Health Check offers a clear and structured review of your current HR foundations, designed to provide clarity without overwhelming you. This assessment is ideal for growing businesses that want to understand their HR position before investing in long-term support.
Whether you are scaling, preparing to hire, or unsure if your current setup is sufficient, this review provides practical insights and prioritised recommendations.
What We Review:
Contracts and Core Documentation: We examine employment contracts, offer letters, job descriptions, and key templates.
Policies and Handbook Content: We assess compliance alignment, consistency, and relevance to your current business stage.
Employee Lifecycle Processes: We evaluate attraction, onboarding, performance management, rewards & recognition and exit procedures.
Compliance and Risk Exposure: We identify areas where documentation, processes, or decision-making could lead to risks.
Manager Capability and Process Clarity: We look at how confidently and consistently people issues are handled.
What You Receive:
A structured findings report
Clear risk categorisation (high, medium, low)
Practical, prioritised recommendations
A roadmap outlining next steps
An optional follow-up discussion to review findings
The HR Health Check serves as:
A starting point before retaining support
A due diligence review before investment or funding
A reset after rapid growth
A confidence check for leadership teams
It provides the foundation for confident people management and a clear plan for what to strengthen next.
Retained HR Support
Ongoing, practical People support that keeps your business steady, compliant and confident.
Our retained service is designed for organisations who need consistent, experienced HR guidance without hiring in-house. It provides structured, ongoing advisory support across the day-to-day realities of managing people, while keeping larger transformation projects clearly defined and separate.
What retained support includes
Manager guidance and employee relations support
Advising on performance concerns, absence management, disciplinary and grievance processes, probation reviews and day-to-day people challenges. We sense-check decisions, review documentation and guide leaders through conversations with confidence.
Risk management and compliance oversight
Practical guidance to help you navigate employment law considerations, reduce risk and ensure processes are fair, consistent and well-documented.
Policy and handbook maintenance
Light-touch updates to existing policies and documentation to reflect legal changes or business developments. (Full policy overhauls and new framework builds are delivered as scoped projects.)
Regular strategic check-ins
Scheduled calls to review workforce planning, emerging risks, team dynamics and organisational priorities. This ensures people strategy stays aligned with business growth.
Documentation review and refinement
Reviewing contracts, offer letters, job descriptions and internal communications to ensure clarity, professionalism and alignment.
Responsive advisory access
Access to experienced HR guidance when questions arise, whether it’s a quick sense-check or a more in-depth discussion.
What retained support is not
Retained services focus on ongoing advisory and operational stability. Larger transformation work such as building performance frameworks, designing onboarding programmes, implementing HR systems or leading major organisational change, is delivered as a clearly scoped project with defined outcomes and timelines.
This approach protects quality, clarity and momentum for both parties.
Designed for partnership
Retained support with The Good Workplace Company is relationship-led, commercially grounded and tailored to your business stage. It provides reassurance when challenges arise and strategic insight as you grow, without unnecessary complexity.
Project-Based HR Support
Contracts and Policy Development
Clear and well-structured documentation is essential for effective people management. We design and develop employment contracts, handbooks, and policies that reflect your organisation’s size, culture, and risk profile. Whether starting from scratch or refreshing existing documentation, we ensure that your framework is legally compliant, commercially viable, and written in terms your managers can easily understand.
Compliance and Governance
As businesses grow, informal practices often outpace formal structures. We help establish appropriate governance frameworks that support compliance without unnecessary complexity. This can involve documentation audits, risk reviews, process mapping, and practical guidance to ensure that decision-making is consistent, fair, and defensible.
Onboarding and Offboarding Processes
First and last impressions are important. We create structured onboarding and offboarding processes that clarify roles for managers and provide positive experiences for employees. Our services range from establishing probation frameworks and induction planning to conducting exit interviews and knowledge transfer processes. We build systems that promote engagement, retention, and organisational learning.
Performance Management Frameworks
Effective performance management should foster growth rather than create anxiety. We design performance frameworks tailored to your business's stage, including goal-setting, feedback rhythms, review structures, and capability processes. The result is a clear and consistent approach that supports accountability while strengthening company culture.
Manager Enablement and Guidance
Confident managers build stable teams. We develop practical toolkits, guidance frameworks, and training support to empower leaders to manage day-to-day people matters effectively. This includes conversation guides, documentation templates, and structured support designed to enhance leadership capabilities throughout your organisation.
Project-Based HR Services
Looking beyond foundations?
Workplace Experience & Strategic People Environment focuses on how work is designed and experienced day to day.