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mapped projects
Structured project support for defined HR needs
clear scope. defined outcomes. practical progress.
Mapped services are clearly scoped HR projects designed to address specific needs with defined deliverables, timelines, and outcomes. These engagements are ideal when you want tangible work completed such as policies, tools, documentation, and outlined structure without committing to ongoing advisory support. Project work may include onsite support for meetings, investigations, or facilitated discussions when appropriate.
Some organizations engage Mapped services as a standalone solution. Others use them alongside a Guided Partnership, where retainer support may offset or reduce the need for certain projects over time. Mapped services provide clarity and momentum — whether you’re building, refining, or correcting course.
route mapping
foundational hr structure
Route Mapping projects establish clarity around expectations, roles, and core people processes. These services focus on documentation and structure that help organizations operate consistently as they grow or change.
Trail Markers — Core Policy Design
Creation or modernization of foundational policies that set clear expectations and reduce ambiguity without overengineering or legal-heavy language. This project helps formalize expectations and is tailored to your organization’s size, culture, and operating environment.
Estimated Effort: ~3-4 hours
Price: $750
Deliverables include up to four custom HR policies drafted from established templates, one review cycle based on client feedback, and a final draft set ready for leadership approval and rollout.
Summit Register — Role & Job Clarity
Clarifies responsibilities, accountability, and expectations for defined roles, helping eliminate overlap and confusion that can undermine performance. This project focuses on practical job clarity rather than compensation analysis or recruiting strategy.
Estimated Effort: ~3-4 hours
Price: $750
Deliverables include refined job descriptions for up to two roles, including essential functions, core responsibilities, and minimum qualifications suitable for internal alignment or external posting.
Field Notes — Employee Handbook Review
Provides a structured review of an existing employee handbook to identify gaps, inconsistencies, outdated language and risk areas. This review and recommendation project is for alignment and clarity (not a full rewrite).
Estimated Effort: ~3-4 hours
Price: $750
Deliverables include redlined handbook edits, written recommendations for additions or revisions, and a prioritized summary of risk and improvement areas.
Trail Guide — Procedure Development
Documents how work is actually done by translating informal knowledge into clear, repeatable procedures. This project supports consistency, training, and operational continuity without requiring system configuration or training delivery.
Estimated Effort: ~5-6 hours
Price: $1,100
Deliverables include up to two documented procedures with step-by-step workflows, decision points, and ownership identified, along with one revision cycle and final draft procedures.
Chart the Course — Onboarding & Training Pathways
Designs onboarding and early-tenure training frameworks that help new hires ramp up consistently and confidently. This project focuses on structure rather than facilitation.
Estimated Effort: ~5-6 hours
Price: $1,100
Deliverables include an onboarding roadmap, role-specific checklists, and training touchpoint recommendations aligned to your organization’s workflow.
Map & Mark — Employee Handbook Development
Creates a complete, custom employee handbook from the ground up aligned with your operations, values, and workforce. This project establishes a comprehensive foundation for organizations without an existing handbook or with one that no longer fits their operations.
Estimated Effort: ~36-40 hours
Price: $4,800
Deliverables include a comprehensive handbook typically ranging from 60–80 pages, one structured review cycle, and a final draft suitable for leadership approval and implementation.
guardrails
Prevention, Performance & Compliance
Guardrails services help organizations establish clear expectations, reinforce sound management practices, and navigate compliance-sensitive areas before issues escalate. These projects focus on proactive structure and steady decision-making rather than corrective action.
Safety Brief — Safety & Compliance Awareness
HR-focused support to help employers strengthen safety awareness and documentation without functioning as an OSHA audit or technical inspection. This project helps identify common risk areas, clarify safety communication practices, and reinforce employer responsibilities through an HR and policy lens.
Estimated Effort: ~2-3 hours
Price: $600
Deliverables include review of existing safety communications or incident trends, written recommendations for improving safety awareness and documentation, and a set of quarterly safety reminder resources suitable for distribution to staff.
Vista Point — Performance Management & Expectations Alignment
Helps leaders establish clear, fair performance expectations and consistent management practices before performance issues arise. This project focuses on aligning goals, feedback cadence, documentation practices, and supervisory approach so expectations are understood and applied consistently across roles.
Estimated Effort: ~5-6 hours
Price: $1,100
Deliverables include review of existing performance evaluations or supervisory notes, written guidance on expectation and goal-setting, feedback cadence, documentation standards, supervisor file practices, refined performance language, and tools for one-on-one check-ins.
Access Road — Leave & Modified Duty
Structured advisory support for a single leave or modified-duty situation that unfolds over time. This project supports employers navigating eligibility questions, medical documentation, evolving restrictions, and return-to-work planning across programs such as FMLA, CFRA, PDL, PFL, military leave, and similar leave pathways.
Estimated Effort: ~5-6 hours
Price: $1,100
Deliverables include review of employer-provided documentation, advisory guidance on applicable leave or modified-work options, and written summaries supporting consistent application. Follow-up advisory support is included for the duration of the case to help decisions remain aligned as circumstances change.
Safeguard — Reasonable Accommodation
End-to-end advisory support for a single reasonable accommodation case. This project guides employers through the interactive process, helping evaluate accommodation options, prepare for required conversations, and navigate evolving medical information while maintaining consistency and defensibility.
Estimated Effort: ~5-6 hours
Price: $1,100
Deliverables include review of accommodation requests and related documentation, participation in interactive meeting(s) if requested, and written summaries of discussions and recommendations. Support continues through resolution of the accommodation decision or until the project time limit is reached.
campfire conversations
Human-Centered Dialogue & Coaching
Campfire Conversations focus on people, relationships, and leadership presence. These projects create structured space for dialogue, coaching, and facilitated conversations without discipline or investigation.
Lookout — Leadership Coaching & Perspective
One-on-one leadership coaching for managers navigating complexity, pressure, or uncertainty. Coaching focuses on judgment, communication, and decision-making.
Estimated Effort: ~3-4 hours
Price: $750
Deliverables include up to four coaching sessions (45-50 minutes each), and a written leadership summary capturing themes, insights, and recommended focus areas.
Smoke Signals — Difficult Conversation Preparation
Prepares leaders for difficult conversations before issues escalate to ensure clarity, fairness, and confidence going into high-stakes discussions. This project focuses on framing, messaging, documentation considerations, and approach.
Estimated Effort: ~3-4 hours
Price: $750
Deliverables include a preparation session, customized talking points, sequencing guidance, documentation recommendations, and a written conversation outline leaders can use during the discussion.
Tending the Fire — Facilitated Conflict Conversations
Provides facilitated conversations to address interpersonal conflict between employees or between employees and supervisors. Brings a neutral, structured presence to help stabilize working relationships.
Estimated Effort: ~5-6 hours
Price: $1,100
Deliverables include pre-meeting preparation, facilitated discussion(s), a written summary of key themes and agreements, and one follow-up check-in if needed.
Rekindling — Team or Leadership Reset
Supports teams experiencing strain, disengagement, or breakdowns in trust by creating space for realignment and shared expectations. Focuses on rebuilding clarity, connection, and shared expectations.
Estimated Effort: ~7-8 hours
Price: $1,500
Deliverables include planning and intake, facilitated session(s) with leaders and/or teams, synthesis of themes, and a written summary outlining commitments, expectations, and next steps.
vantage point
Hiring & Selection Decisions
Vantage Point services provide HR perspective during hiring without recruiting, posting, or screening candidates. The emphasis is on interview design, deliberation, and sound decision-making rather than execution or candidate sourcing.
Overlook — Hiring Deliberation & Risk Review
Overlook supports hiring decisions that feel close, sensitive, or high-stakes. The focus is structured deliberation—not authority over the decision, to ensure the best-fit candidate is selected.
Estimated Effort: ~2-3 hours
Price: $600
Deliverables include review of interview notes and materials for one role, a guided decision conversation with the hiring team, and a written summary capturing key considerations, risks, and decision rationale.
Sightline — Interview & Selection Design
Helps improve hiring decisions by creating clear interview questions and evaluation tools, and by making sure the hiring process—and the people involved—are aligned with the role and selection goals.
Estimated Effort: ~3-4 hours
Price: $750
Deliverables include tailored interview questions, scoring rubrics, hiring panel guidance, and a review of the job description to ensure alignment with selection criteria.
Clear View — Panel Participation & Evaluation Support
Provides seasoned HR participation during interview panels for higher-risk or senior hires, offering objective observation and perspective.
Estimated Effort: ~7-8 hours
Price: $1,400
Deliverables include panel preparation, participation in interviews (up to ten candidates), deliberation support, and written observations and recommendations.
crossroads
Employee Relations & Corrective Action
Crossroads projects provide structure when workplace concerns require a more deliberate path forward. Evaluate situations, clarify next steps, and move forward with intentional, well-documented decisions aligned with best practices.
Distress Call — Incident Intake & Framing
Focuses on understanding what issue(s) are being raised, identify relevant considerations and options, and clarify appropriate next steps so early decisions don’t unintentionally create risk or inconsistency.
Estimated Effort: ~2-3 hours
Price: $600
Deliverables include issue framing and categorization, initial risk and process considerations, and a written summary outlining recommended paths forward and key questions to resolve before action is taken.
Anchor Point — ER Documentation & Positioning
Strengthen employee relations documentation and positioning before decisions are finalized or escalated. Pause, review what exists, and ensure records accurately reflect expectations, conversations, and decision logic—reducing exposure created by gaps, inconsistencies, or unclear documentation.
Estimated Effort: ~5-6 hours
Price: $1,100
Deliverables include review of existing supervisor notes, performance records, and related materials; guidance on what should be documented or clarified; and revised drafts or written recommendations to help anchor the record in fairness, consistency, and defensible rationale.
Course Correction — Discipline & Resolution Strategy
Supports organizations working through active performance or conduct issues that require intentional direction rather than incremental fixes. This project helps leaders evaluate options, align on an appropriate approach, and move forward thoughtfully—whether the goal is improvement, accountability, or resolution.
Estimated Effort: ~7-8 hours
Price: $1,400
Deliverables include intake and context review, development of a corrective strategy, drafting or review of relevant notices or documentation, preparation for and participation in follow-up conversations as needed, and a written resolution roadmap outlining decisions made, next steps, and considerations moving forward.
true north
Strategic Alignment & Direction
True North provide executive-level clarity for organizations navigating growth, change, or strategic uncertainty. These engagements help leadership teams align direction, priorities, and people strategy when decisions carry long-term impact.
North Star — Executive Advisory Checkpoint
focused executive advisory support at key inflection points where leaders need perspective, clarity, or a second set of experienced eyes. This engagement is designed for situations that benefit from thoughtful discussion rather than ongoing coaching or project work.
Estimated Effort: ~3-4 hours
Price: $750
Deliverables include an intake conversation, one or more advisory sessions, and a written summary capturing insights, considerations, and recommended paths forward to support confident decision-making.
Compass — Values-Based Decision Frameworks
Helps leadership teams make consistent, defensible decisions by translating organizational values into practical decision-making guidance. Creates a shared framework leaders can apply when navigating complex or high-impact people decisions.
Estimated Effort: ~5-6 hours
Price: $1,100
Deliverables include facilitated discussion, a written decision framework grounded in stated values and priorities, and guidance on applying the framework across common leadership and people scenarios.
Bearing Reset — Leadership Alignment
Supports leadership teams during periods of transition, growth, or misalignment by creating shared understanding around priorities, roles, and decision-making expectations. Focuses on surfacing differences, clarifying leadership norms, and establishing practical alignment that supports consistent direction moving forward.
Estimated Effort: ~7-8 hours
Price: $1,400
Deliverables include facilitated leadership discussions, synthesis of key alignment themes, documented agreements on priorities and operating principles, and a written summary leaders can reference to reinforce alignment over time.
Pathfinder — HR & Workforce Roadmap
Creates a clear, forward-looking HR and workforce roadmap aligned to business goals, growth plans, and organizational realities. This project helps leaders move from reactive people decisions to a structured, phased approach for addressing workforce priorities over time.
Estimated Effort: ~11-12 hours
Price: $2,200
Deliverables include facilitated planning sessions, identification of near- and mid-term workforce priorities, risk and capacity considerations, and a written HR roadmap outlining recommended initiatives, sequencing, and focus areas.
mapped projects
Mapped projects provide clarity and progress—without locking you into ongoing support. Many organizations start here to solve a specific issue, then transition into a Guided Partnership when continuity becomes valuable. Others use projects periodically as needs arise.
Either way, the goal is the same: clear thinking, practical outcomes, and decisions you can stand behind.