HOURLY CONSULTING

The types of situations that call for immediate hourly consulting support.

Businesses often reach out to us when a people situation is already underway internally, and they need expertise beyond their internal capability or capacity.

Often, the situation needs resolving properly, and the cost of getting it wrong is real. Typical activities we help with in this way include:

A performance issue that is not resolving
A conflict that has spread beyond the original parties
An extended leave or return-to-work situation with no clear next step
A termination, redundancy, or misconduct matter
A compliance or award question that needs a definitive answer
A leadership escalation the internal team cannot or will not handle

Senior advice, a clear recommendation, and practical next steps

If you are looking for any of the following, we will point you to the right pathway instead.

Direct access to senior advice, not a triage queue
A clear recommendation, the reasoning behind it, and the risks worth knowing
Practical next steps: what to do, in what order, and who is involved
Drafting and review where the situation calls for it. Letters, meeting scripts, etc.
Support for, or attendance at, difficult conversations or meetings where our team’s objective and independent presence materially helps

Clear steps to resolve the issue in front of you.

Hourly consulting resolves the reactive thing that is right in front of you. But it does not rebuild the structure that created it.

Not unlimited access or an on-call service
Not concentrated implementation. Sustained build work is scoped as a Strategic Project
Not ongoing operating partnership. That is a People Partner Plan
Not a structural fix. It resolves what is in front of you, not the system behind it

When the pattern behind the issue becomes clear, we will name it honestly and then recommend the right next step for your business to take to solve it.

Once the immediate pressure is off, the structural pattern is usually visible

Typically, once the iommediate people situation is contained or resolved, we discuss partnership options moving forward to ensure you are building the structures and systems to support your business growth.

Strategic Projects

Scoped and priced directly against a defined outcome. No Assessment required. For businesses where the issue has exposed a specific structural gap that needs concentrated implementation.

A People Partner Plan

For businesses where the issue is a symptom of broader growth pressure and the most useful next step is a focused partnership with us.

Hourly consulting is best suited to:

Founder-led or owner-led businesses with 20 to 100 employees and no senior internal HR capability, or junior capability only.
New clients with an urgent, contained issue and no prior Common Goal Consulting relationship
Existing project or People Partner Plan clients with work that sits outside the agreed scope
Businesses testing whether Common Goal Consulting is the right fit before committing to structure