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TrueStep HR advisory

Senior HR judgment for the situations a file cannot settle.

Most of what we know is already in the tools. Some situations need a senior HR leader working beside you. We take on a small number of advisory engagements at a time, led by Greg Best, MBA, SPHR. Availability is limited, so every engagement starts with a request.

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What we take on

Three kinds of work.

Scope and fee are agreed in writing before anything starts. We tell you plainly when a tool or a single session would do the job for less.

Ongoing

Fractional HR leadership

A set number of hours each month

  • Standing time with the owner or the leadership team
  • Hiring, pay, performance, and exit decisions made with a senior HR leader
  • Managers coached through the situations in front of them
  • HR priorities set each quarter and tracked

Best when: you have 25 to 300 employees and no senior HR leader, or an HR generalist who needs one behind them.

Fixed scope

HR function review and build

A project with a start and an end

  • A review of how HR runs today: files, policies, pay practices, and manager habits
  • A ranked list of gaps with the risk and cost of each
  • The first 90 days of fixes, built with you
  • TrueStep HR tools included wherever they fit

Best when: you are growing fast, you just lost your HR person, or you are getting ready for a sale, an audit, or a new state.

One decision

A second chair on a hard call

A short engagement around one decision

  • A reduction in force, a reorganization, or a difficult exit
  • A pay structure, a leadership hire, or a manager who is not working out
  • Options laid out with the cost and risk of each
  • The process and the written record to carry it through

Best when: the decision is close and getting it wrong would be expensive.

How it works

Request, reply, written scope.

Advisory is by request because the number of engagements we carry at one time is small. Every request gets a reply.

  1. Request

    Tell us the situation with the form below. A few sentences is enough.

  2. Reply

    We answer by email within two business days. If we have no room, or a tool or a session would serve you better, we say so.

  3. Scope

    A short call, then a written scope with a fixed monthly or project fee. Nothing starts until you approve it.

A smaller first step

You do not have to start with an engagement.

Many clients begin with a free assessment or a single session, then ask for more once they have seen how we work.

Advisory covers HR practice and the operating decision. For legal advice, use qualified counsel.

Request advisory

Tell us the situation.

  • How many employees you have and in which states
  • What is happening and when it needs to move
  • What you have already tried or put in place

Availability is limited. We reply to every request within two business days.

Email directly
support@truestephr.com

This form is for business inquiries. It is not monitored as an emergency or employee-reporting hotline, and sending a request does not create an attorney-client relationship.

We use this information only to answer the request and maintain the minimum service record described in the privacy policy.

Greg Best, founder and senior HR practitioner

Who leads the work

The same standard as the tools, applied to your situation.

Greg Best, MBA, SPHR, founded TrueStep HR and leads every advisory engagement. He is a senior HR executive who writes and reviews every tool we release.

You get the reasoning in writing, the numbers behind the recommendation, and a record another person can follow after the meeting ends.

About Greg and TrueStep HR