HR Consulting · Sydney · cogstogears.com
Your business has outgrown the way you're managing people.
We translate that complexity into clarity—helping business owners identify what’s really holding them back and build the people capability needed to grow with confidence.
When performance issues, compliance concerns, leadership challenges, or employee frustrations keep finding their way back to you, it’s usually a sign that something in the system needs attention.
We identify the gap, prioritise what matters, and help you implement the changes needed to support your next stage of growth.
Not sure where to start?
Find out whether your HR is operating in Foundational, Operational, or Strategic Mode with our free 10-minute QuickScan.
You're not winging it. You're just past the point where winging it works.
"I don't know if we're actually compliant -- I just hope we are."
Fair Work obligations, Modern Award requirements, payroll compliance — for most growing businesses, these sit in a pile marked “deal with it later.” Later has a habit of becoming urgent.
"Performance issues take up more of my week than they should."
One underperformer. One complaint. One resignation that came out of nowhere. People problems rarely resolve themselves. Without the right structure, they consume leadership time that should be spent growing the business.
"Generic HR advice never quite fits our situation."
The templates are written for corporates. The consultants don’t know your industry. And the software assumes you have an HR department to run it. You don’t. You have a business to run.
Performance issues, compliance concerns, and hiring challenges are often symptoms of a business that has outgrown its people systems. We help you find the cause and fix it.
Where do you sit?
Where are you right now?
Every business reaches a different stage of growth. The challenge is that HR doesn’t always grow at the same pace.
Start by identifying the mode your business is operating in. Then use our SMEs People Maturity QuickScan to see whether your HR has kept pace.
Foundational Mode
You’re building the foundations.
You need confidence that contracts, compliance, onboarding, and people practices are set up correctly.
Operational Mode
You’ve grown beyond the basics.
People management is consuming more leadership time than it should, and consistency is becoming harder to maintain.
Strategic Mode
Growth is no longer limited by opportunity. It’s limited by execution.
The challenge is no longer managing people—it’s ensuring your leaders, teams, and systems are aligned and capable of supporting the next stage of growth.
Our QuickScan reveals whether your HR is keeping pace with your business growth—and where gaps may be holding you back.
Take the free 10-minute SMEs People Maturity QuickScan.
Your guide
Translating people complexity into business clarity.
Over the past 17 years, Praneet Gill has helped leaders navigate challenges ranging from compliance and employee relations through to organisational change, workforce planning, and capability development.
Her experience has shown that effective HR isn’t about having more policies, more processes, or more complexity. It’s about having the right foundations and the right level of capability for the stage a business is in.
The same principles that help large organisations scale successfully apply to smaller businesses too—the difference is applying them in a way that is practical, proportionate, and sustainable.
That’s why CTG doesn’t start with templates or best-practice models. It starts by understanding the business, identifying the gaps, and building practical solutions that fit where the business is today while supporting where it wants to go next.
Whether the challenge is getting the fundamentals right, improving performance, or building the leadership capability needed for growth, the goal remains the same: helping business owners make confident people decisions and build businesses that can scale sustainably.
Business • Behaviour • Organisation Design
How it works
The CTG Audit-to-Action Method
Three stages. No guesswork. No off-the-shelf solutions.
1
Assess
We start with a diagnostic — not a proposal. The SMEs People Maturity QuickScan identifies where your HR is operating today and highlights the gaps between your business needs and current people practices.
2
Align
We prioritise the actions that will have the greatest impact on your business. No templates. No unnecessary complexity. Just a practical roadmap aligned to your stage of growth.
3
Activate
We help you implement the plan—whether that’s improving compliance, strengthening leadership capability, redesigning processes, or building accountability. Success isn’t measured by what gets documented. It’s measured by what changes.
The work ends when it’s working, not when the engagement period expires.
Most clients move from reactive people management to a clear plan for growth within 60–90 days.
Accounting firm partnership
Deliver more value to clients without building an HR team
Your clients come to you with more than financial questions. Employment obligations, performance issues, compliance concerns, and workforce challenges often become part of the conversation.
CTG partners with accounting firms as an extension of their advisory offering, helping clients solve people issues while strengthening client relationships and creating an additional revenue stream for your firm.
Unlike many HR consultants, CTG understands that business owners don’t need more complexity—they need practical solutions that reduce risk, improve performance, and support growth.
Benefits
✓ Expand your service offering without increasing headcount
✓ Strengthen client relationships through trusted HR support
✓ Provide practical solutions for people and compliance challenges
✓ Create an additional revenue stream through referral or white-label partnerships
✓ Work with a partner who understands SMEs and commercial realities
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What happens when people management stops getting in the way.
✓ A staff issue comes up. You handle it calmly, by the book, without drama — and it doesn’t land on your desk for three weeks.
✓ A new hire joins. The onboarding process runs itself. They’re up to speed in half the time.
✓ Managers know what’s expected of them and have the confidence to handle people issues before they become leadership problems.
✓ Your team has performance conversations because there’s a clear, fair process — not because someone finally escalated something.
✓ You haven’t thought about Fair Work compliance in months. Not because you’re ignoring it. Because it’s handled.
✓ You’re spending less time solving recurring people problems and more time growing the business.
That’s not a big-business luxury. That’s what right-sized HR makes possible.
Start with a free picture of where you are.
The People Maturity QuickScan takes ten minutes and tells you exactly which people management domains need attention — and in what order.