People Operating Roadmap

Clarity on your people rhythms and priorities across the year.

The People Operating Roadmap provide you with clear direction and sequencing for your people priorities, helping you to lead proactively, not reactivity.

The process defines:

  • Your current people maturity

  • Where structural strain is building

  • What must stabilise

  • What must strengthen

  • What success looks like in 12 months.

It is not:

  • A compliance audit

  • A document checklist

  • A generic or cookie cutter HR review

How does it work?

The Roadmap is is a fixed-fee strategic engagement. It includes:

  • A structured 60-minute strategic session.

  • Structured diagnostic questioning.

  • A detailed executive report that outlines:

    • Executive summary

    • Structural maturity snapshot

    • Risk profile

    • Key priorities

    • 12 month operating rhythm

    • Success definition

  • A 45-minute roadmap delivery session.
 
If you’re serious about building your people structure before growth creates pressure, this roadmap is the starting point.

Detailed compliance audits, award reviews, or deep remuneration analysis are not included and may be scoped separately if required.

The Four Core People Pillars

The People Operating Roadmap aligns with our four core people pillars:

Compliance and Governance

Clarity on foundational risk and compliance, documentation maturity.

Structure and Accountability

Role clarity, organisational and leadership structure, decision making frameworks.

Performance and Capability

Performance framework and rhythm, capability reviews, and consistency.

Leadership and Culture

Communications framework, leadership role and cultural alignment.

“You can’t really know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been.”

- Maya Angelou

A People Operating Roadmap is perfect if you are a growth-stage leader or scaling operator, who:

Outcomes you can expect

Improved clarity

Connect your top people priorities and initiatives directly to your business goals

CLEAR PRIORITIES

Move from reactive to proactive people management with a practical roadmap to guide decisions

DEFINED OPERATING RHYTHM

A better understanding of what matters now vs later, so that you can plan resources and workload

STRUCTURED DECISION MAKING

You will be more comfortable about what you need to do next as the highest priorities

Measurable Results

Ability to track progress with clear HR metrics and KPIs

VISIBILITY ON Risk EXPOSURE

Identify and address HR compliance gaps proactively

Need help implementing
your people roadmap?

Don’t go it alone. Common Goal Consulting specialises in practical, people-first HR solutions for small and medium businesses.

Our Services:

People Partner Plans (Monthly)

For many clients, the Roadmap becomes the foundation of a People Partner Plan.

Through Essentials or Growth, we support implementation of priorities identified in your Roadmap across a 12-month partnership.

HR Consulting (Hourly/Ad Hoc)

People-first consulting solutions that are strategic, practical, and built for growth. Available on an hourly rate basis, fixed retainer or fixed provide project.

HR Compliance Diagnostic

Need further clarity on your compliance and levels of risk? We have a tool that reviews your current HR documentation, contracts and core practices and makes recommendations on what to action as priority.