HR support for small businesses can include advice on staff issues, contracts, policies, performance management, leave, workplace conflict, difficult conversations and general employee questions.

At Alignment Group, our HR support is practical and plain-English. We help you understand what is happening, what your options are and what steps to take next.

Yes. Many small businesses use outsourced or ad hoc HR support instead of hiring a full-time HR manager.

This gives you access to experienced HR advice when you need it, without the cost of adding a permanent HR role to your business.

Ad hoc HR support is best when you need help with a specific issue.

Monthly HR support is better when you want regular access to an HR consultant who can get to know your business and provide ongoing advice, document review and support with staff matters.

For many small and family-owned businesses, monthly support provides a useful HR safety net.

Yes. We can support you with performance concerns, performance conversations, probation reviews, performance improvement plans, documentation and manager guidance.

Yes. We can help you prepare for difficult conversations with staff, including conversations about performance, behaviour, conduct, expectations, leave, conflict or workplace change.

This can include helping you plan the conversation, understand the risks, prepare notes and decide what needs to happen next.

Yes. We support businesses with workplace conflict, team tension, communication issues and relationship breakdowns.

Depending on the situation, this may involve HR advice, manager coaching, mediation, facilitated conversations or support to reset expectations and rebuild trust.

Yes. We can review employment contracts, position descriptions, policies, letters and HR documents.

We can help identify gaps, improve clarity and make sure your documents are practical and useful for the way your business actually operates.

Yes. Alignment Group provides local HR support for small and family-owned businesses across the Mornington Peninsula.

We can support businesses in areas including Mornington, Mount Eliza, Frankston, Dromana, Rosebud, Rye, Sorrento, Hastings, Somers, Balnarring and surrounding areas.

Yes. Many HR issues can be supported by phone, video call and email.

For local Mornington Peninsula businesses, in-person support may also be available depending on the type of work required.

It is best to get HR advice before an issue escalates.

You should consider HR support if you are unsure about a staff matter, preparing for a difficult conversation, dealing with repeated performance issues, managing workplace conflict, reviewing contracts or trying to improve your HR foundations.

Alignment Group provides HR advice, workplace support and people guidance. We do have a legal advisor who we work with on more complex cases.

Where legal advice is required, we can help you understand the HR issue clearly and work alongside before refering you to an employment lawyer or recommend that you seek legal advice.

Alignment Group provides HR support from experienced practitioners who have worked at senior levels across HR, people, culture, workplace change and complex employee matters.

You are not getting generic admin support or someone simply following a checklist. You are getting considered advice from people who can understand the context, weigh up the risks and help you decide what to do next.

We also do not approach HR as a list of things you cannot do. Our role is to help you understand what is possible, what is sensible and how to get as close as possible to the outcome you need while managing risk fairly and practically.

The aim is to give you clear, useful HR advice that helps you move forward, not leave you stuck in process.

The easiest way to get started is to book a confidential conversation.

We will talk through what is happening, what support you need and whether ad hoc HR advice or a monthly support package is the best fit.

You do not need to have everything neatly prepared before you contact us. If the issue feels messy, unclear or difficult to explain, that is exactly where we can help.