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Hire. Engage. Develop. Retain. Transition.

Human Resources Consulting Services

HR support across the full employee lifecycle, from the first interview to the last day. Take on a single project or keep us on monthly, and work with consultants who have held the job themselves.

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What Is Human Resources Consulting?

HR consulting means bringing in an outside HR practitioner to handle the parts of people management your team can’t get to, or hasn’t done before. That covers hiring, onboarding, compensation, policy, performance, company structure, and how people leave. More and more, it also includes culture, the everyday experience of work that shapes whether people stay, grow, and do their best.

Frontline works across seven areas:

  • Hiring & Onboarding Consulting for interview processes, job descriptions, and onboarding design
  • HR Compliance & Policy Consulting for handbooks, policy audits, and manager training
  • Compensation & Benefits Consulting for pay banding, tiered structures, and brokerage connections
  • Employee Retention & Engagement Consulting for culture surveys, exit interviews, and turnover analysis
  • Performance Management Consulting for goal setting, evaluations, and review tools
  • Organizational Design & Succession Planning for team structure and leadership pipelines
  • Outplacement Services for supporting employees through layoffs and restructuring

Whether you’re a founder handling HR yourself, a one-person HR team who needs project support, or a larger company looking to evolve its people strategy, we step in to solve the problem in front of you and set you up to handle the next one.

HR Consulting by Frontline Training Solutions

How it Works

Every engagement starts the same way, whether it's a two-week policy audit or a year of strategic support:

1. Align on Issue/Need

Our HR consultant meets with your team to get clear on the core issues, including conversations with the people closest to them. We work through three questions: Who is involved? What is happening now? What does good look like?

2. Identify Options

Once the issues are defined, we map the ways forward and what each one costs you in time and money. Who approves the approach? How will success be measured? Who needs to be involved? What is the timeline?

3. Proposal Creation & Review

You get a written proposal covering the work, the investment, and a sign-off process, before anything starts.

4. Consulting

Your consultant works alongside your team and stakeholders. Longer projects include check-ins to measure progress against the milestones in the proposal and adjust where needed.

5. Project Close-Out and Results Review

A formal review at the end comparing results against the original proposal, plus lessons learned and your feedback on working with us.

Time-sensitive work moves faster. A layoff or restructuring event can compress all five steps into a week, and our outplacement services are set up for that pace.

Benefits of Human Resources Consulting Services

When you work with a strategic HR consultant, you gain more than policies and paperwork. You gain a partner in organizational health.

Get Clear on What's Wrong:

Something feels off and nobody can name it. An outside read gets to the root, whether that turns out to be a pay structure problem, a performance process problem, or a manager who needs support.

Work Smarter, Not Harder:

Ineffective processes drain time from your team. We streamline operations and rework your org structure so you can focus on growing the business.

Better Compliance to Reduce Risk:

Workplace rules keep changing. Handbook and policy audits keep you aligned with federal, state, and local regulations and cut your legal exposure.

Be Ready for Anything:

People leave. Clients change. Growth and contraction both happen faster than planned. We help you build systems that hold up through either, including succession plans for the roles you can’t afford to leave open.

Keep Good People:

Happy employees stick around. Culture surveys and turnover analysis tell you why yours are leaving and what would make the rest stay.

Get Started with Frontline Training Solutions

Ready to attract, hire, onboard, develop, and retain your employees with HR services that fit how your company works? Whether you're building something new or supporting people through a change, contact us today to learn more.

Our HR Consulting Services

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Human Resources Consulting Services

Our HR consulting services include a variety of solutions designed to support your team, improve hiring and onboarding, and increase employee engagement.

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Operations/Lean Consulting

Sometimes as you pursue operational excellence, an outside perspective is helpful. The Frontline Training Solutions team can be that extra help for your team.

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Team Solutions

An organization's success is directly connected to the health and cohesion of the team. Our seasoned facilitator will bring your team together and help them perform at higher levels.

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Employer Branding

Becoming an employer of choice means telling a compelling story about why people should want to work for you. We can help you craft that story.

Human Resources Consulting for Your Industry

Manufacturing

Manufacturing is a special focus for us. Many of our team members have worked inside manufacturing companies, and they use that experience across the full scope of HR work: standing up an HR function, shaping compensation that competes for talent in a tight labor market, improving retention, and guiding teams through change, whether that’s a reorganization or a line closure.

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Nonprofit

Nonprofits are driven by people addressing complex social problems, often without the time or budget for an in-house HR team. An HR consultant can help protect your organization, your employees, and your mission, while handling the mounting HR tasks so you can focus on making a bigger impact.

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Professional Services

Professional services firms need workers with a particular set of skills and context. We help you identify the candidates you need and design onboarding that brings entry-level hires up to speed against the demands of your field.

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Retail & Hospitality

Turnover is infamously high in retail and hospitality, and it doesn’t have to be. HR consulting can turn your company into one that keeps great workers and attracts more of them.

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