Most people problems are structure problems
When a business grows past about twenty people, the informal arrangements stop working. Nobody is sure who decides what. Two people doing the same job are paid very differently. A dismissal goes wrong and becomes expensive.
None of that is a personality problem. It is missing structure. We build the architecture underneath your people function so the day-to-day runs without heroics — and so you are defensible when something goes wrong.
“Good HR is invisible. You only notice it when it is not there.”
What you get
- Org charts that reflect how work actually flows
- Job architecture and levelling across the business
- Salary bands benchmarked to your market
- Contracts and handbooks compliant with local labour law
- Performance and probation processes your managers will actually use
- Exit and disciplinary procedures that hold up
How an engagement runs
We diagnose before we prescribe. No two businesses need the same thing.
Audit
We review what exists — contracts, policies, structure, pay — and identify the gaps and the legal exposure.
Design
Org structure, job architecture, levels and salary bands, built around where the business is going, not just where it is.
Documentation
Contracts, handbook and policies written in plain language, checked against the labour law of each country you operate in.
Handover
We train your managers to run it, then step back. You should not need us on retainer to operate your own HR.
What lands on your desk
Everything is handed over in editable form. It is yours.
Org & job architecture
Structure, role definitions and levelling you can hire and promote against consistently.
Employee handbook
A complete, compliant handbook written so your team will actually read it.
Salary structure
Benchmarked bands per level, so pay decisions stop being negotiated one by one.
Other ways we help
Most clients start with one service and grow into the others.
Country-specific by default
Employment law differs sharply across African markets. Everything we write is checked against the law of the country the employee actually sits in — never a single template applied everywhere.
Not sure what you are missing?
Start with an audit. We will tell you what is solid, what is exposed, and what to fix first.