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What it is
Planning your staff: how much work there is, which roles do it, how they fit together, and what they cost.
Workforce planning & structure · Quoted
Workforce planning: the roles, structure and pay you actually need.
Before you post the ad. After the org chart has lived on a whiteboard for three years. We help you work out what you need, then build it properly.
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Who it’s for
Owners, managers and boards about to hire, restructure or set pay, especially where the structure has grown by accident.
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What we do
Check whether you need more hours, more skills or a better process, draw the structure you need, and set simple pay bands.
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What you get
An org chart with clear reporting lines, roles written as outcomes, and a wage budget based on the true cost of each role.
How it works
01 · What you need
More hours, more skills, or a better process? We look at the work before anyone writes an ad.
02 · Structure
The structure you need for the next stretch, not one built around the people you happen to have.
03 · Roles and pay
Roles written as a few measurable outcomes, the true cost of each one, and simple pay bands.
04 · Hiring
A fairer way to choose: a short practical work test, the same scored questions for everyone, and proper reference checks.
What’s in the work
- Your team’s skills and gaps
- Where one person holds knowledge nobody else has (the ‘bus factor’), and a backup plan
- An org chart with clear reporting lines and sensible team sizes
- Roles written as outcomes, with clear decision limits
- The true cost of a role, and simple pay bands
- A hiring approach based on evidence, not a hallway chat
What you walk away with
- A structure that matches the work, not the history
- A list of gaps, risks and backups
- Pay bands and a wage budget you can explain
- A plan for the next hire, or a reason not to make one
What sets the price
Workforce work is quoted after a look at your size and documents, and it sits alongside our HR & role clarity work (from $595). If you’d rather work through it yourself first, our Strategic Workforce Architecture guide ($49) follows the same steps.
Prefer to do it yourself?
Related publications
Guide
Strategic Workforce Architecture
Work out the roles, pay and hires you need. A 25-page guide.
$49 AUD
BlueprintLifecycle Compliance Blueprint
Fair Work rules and templates for each stage, from hiring to exit.
$97 AUD
From our notes
Further reading
Common questions
Do we need a new hire, or a better process?
That’s the first question we ask. Sometimes the answer is training, a process fix or better tools rather than another salary.
Does this cover Award pay rates?
We help you work out the true cost of a role and set pay bands. Check pay figures and Award rules against current law before you use them.
General information, not legal or financial advice.
Tell us what’s going on.
Send us a note through our contact form. If a call is the better next step, we’ll say so.