Strong teams start with strong foundations.

Clear, custom-built talent tools for hiring, onboarding, and performance.

When people systems are missing, it shows up everywhere.

Even great teams struggle when the basics aren’t in place. Hiring feels rushed. Onboarding is inconsistent. Roles overlap or fall through the cracks. Expectations are unclear. Performance conversations don’t happen, or feel scattered.

Over time, it adds up — creating friction, frustration, and lost momentum.

People Foundations helps you clean up the core. The right tools, built for your team, make it easier to hire well, set clear expectations, and drive performance. It’s the behind-the-scenes work that makes your whole team more effective.

People Foundations Focus Areas

Practical support across the five foundations every growing business needs.

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Recruitment & Hiring

Give managers what they need to make confident hiring decisions.

How we can help:

  • Audit existing hiring processes to identify gaps and risks

  • Craft job description templates and success profiles

  • Build interview guides that are aligned to core competencies

  • Create hiring toolkits for managers

  • Standardize evaluation rubrics that reflect your culture and values

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Onboarding

Create onboarding programs that help new hires feel clear, connected, and ready.

How we can help:

  • Create onboarding toolkits for managers and new hires

  • Design day-one and week-one plans and checklists

  • Build onboarding guides that reflect your culture

  • Develop welcome materials and handbooks

  • Streamline and systematize your onboarding processes

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Performance & Feedback

Provide tools that help teams set goals and stay accountable.

How we can help:

  • Design simple performance review templates

  • Build tools for setting goals and tracking progress

  • Create feedback and check-in guides

  • Develop manager toolkits and dashboards for performance conversations

  • Develop templates for effective one-on-one meetings

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Role Clarity

Define roles, accountabilities, and org design so teams can work together smoothly.

How we can help:

  • Audit and refine org charts with clear reporting lines

  • Write role profiles with responsibilities and success measures

  • Clarify team accountabilities and decision rights

  • Map cross-team handoffs, RACIs, and workflows

  • Build “by-level” guides to support growth and progression

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Career Development

Provide frameworks that help people see the future at your company.

How we can help:

  • Define clear role levels and progression processes

  • Create visual career path maps and pathways

  • Customize development plan templates

  • Build toolkits for managers to guide career conversations

  • Align progression frameworks with performance expectations and criteria

Ways to Work Together

Project-Based Support

When you need to solve a specific people challenge — like designing an onboarding program, creating performance tools, or clarifying roles — project-based support delivers a clear scope, defined timeline, and practical deliverables you can use right away.

    • Discovery to understand your priorities, pain points, and team dynamics

    • A detailed project plan with clear deliverables and timelines so you know exactly what to expect

    • Custom tools and resources built for your business

    • Hands-on support to roll out new processes and tools, not just the plan

    • Clear communication to keep you informed at every stage

    • Sustainment planning to ensure your team feels confident using the tools

Fractional HR Partnership

For businesses that want ongoing senior HR support without hiring in-house, fractional partnership provides steady guidance with flexible hours and cadence. It’s ideal for embedding structure as you grow, supporting managers, and keeping people practices intentional.

    • Retained senior-level HR support without adding headcount

    • Regular check-ins to align on priorities, challenges, and progress

    • Continuous design, refinement, and delivery of people tools and frameworks as your needs evolve

    • Real-time advisory for leaders navigating talent and culture challenges

    • Proactive recommendations on HR priorities tied to your business goals

    • Hands-on help implementing people practices so they stick

    • Clear reporting and communication to keep your leadership team informed

The right support starts by mapping out what will make the biggest impact for your team. Book an intro call to start the conversation.