HR Consulting · Sydney · cogstogears.com
Your business has outgrown the way you're managing people.
We help growing firms get the right HR for the stage they’re actually at — not a system built for someone else’s business.
If people issues are landing on your desk more than they should, something in your foundations needs attention. CTG helps you find it, fix it, and move on.
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 don’t stay small — and without a clear process, they don’t stay yours to manage either.
"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.
There’s a point in every business where people management needs to be built properly — not bolted on. Most owners hit that point before they recognise it.
Where do you sit?
Where are you right now?
CTG works with three types of businesses. Find yours — and we’ll show you exactly where to start.
Growing Business Owner
You have 11-200 staff and people management has become the job inside the job. You’re commercially sharp. You’re not an HR specialist. And you need someone who gets that.
Startup / First Employee
You’re hiring your first or second person and want to get the foundations right from day one. Contracts, Modern Awards, onboarding — you don’t need a big HR system. You need the right starting point.
Accounting Firm
You want to offer HR support to your SME clients without building an HR team yourself. We work with accounting firms as a white-label HR partner — so your clients get the support they need.
Your guide
HR advice that fits where your business actually is.
Praneet Gambhir has spent 17 years inside HR at every level — from start-ups navigating their first hire to established firms rebuilding people frameworks that stopped working somewhere along the way.
She founded CTG Human Consulting because most HR advice is built for big business and delivered to small ones. The fit is always wrong. The result is frameworks that sit in a folder and a consultant bill that didn’t move anything.
CTG is different because the starting point is different. Before we recommend anything, we assess. Before we build, we align. The work is sequenced, practical, and sized for where you actually are.
MBA · NLP Master Practitioner · 17+ Years HR Practice · Financial Services · Accounting · NDIS · Legal · IT
How it works
The CTG Audit-to-Action Method
Three stages. No guesswork. No big-firm overhead.
1
Assess
We start with a diagnostic — not a proposal. The People Maturity QuickScan tells us exactly where your business sits across ten people management domains, so we know what needs attention and in what order.
2
Align
We map a practical HR framework to your stage, your industry, and your team size. Not a template. Not a policy pack. A plan you can actually implement with the resources you have.
3
Activate
We help you put it in place — whether that’s documentation, process design, performance frameworks, or leadership coaching. The work ends when it’s working, not when the engagement period expires.
Most clients go from compliance anxiety to confident people management in 60-90 days.
What you get
What working with CTG looks like in practice
Compliance you can stand behind
Know where you sit with Fair Work, Modern Awards, and your employment obligations — without needing a lawyer on speed dial for every people decision.
Performance management that actually works
A clear, consistent process for managing underperformance, having difficult conversations, and documenting outcomes — so issues don’t drag on.
Onboarding that sets new hires up properly
First impressions become culture. A structured onboarding process means new people get up to speed faster, fit better, and stay longer.
HR frameworks built for your size
No bloated policies. No corporate-grade systems that need a dedicated team to run. People management infrastructure that fits your business at its current stage.
An HR partner who knows your industry
Financial services, accounting, NDIS, legal, IT — CTG works inside industries where the compliance environment is specific and the generic advice doesn’t land.
A clear picture of where you are now
The People Maturity QuickScan gives you a stage-by-stage diagnosis of your people management — free, in under ten minutes, with a clear starting point when you’re done.
What it looks like when people management is actually sorted.
✓ 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.
✓ 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.
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.