
Why companies hire consultants
Examples of real HR consulting projects
Consultant income potential and pricing
Finding clients and building a personal brand
Creating service packages and offers
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HR audit methodology
Using surveys and interviews for diagnosis
Reporting findings to clients professionally
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Creating an HR strategic plan
Structuring HR processes
Supporting HR team building
Implementing performance management systems
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Managing change and driving adoption
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Measuring change effectiveness and progress
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Optimizing hiring, branding, and onboarding processes
Automating recruitment workflows
Building a strong employer brand
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Assessing satisfaction, engagement, and loyalty
Analyzing employee turnover
Designing actionable retention strategies
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Salary benchmarking
Building fair and motivating pay structures
Designing incentive and benefits systems
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Implementing OKRs, KPIs, MBO
Launching performance review systems
Fast-tracking employee learning and career development initiatives
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Define a buyer problem and an observable service result.
Set scope units, deliverable quantities and three tiers with distinct boundaries.
Record client inputs, revision limits, exclusions and acceptance evidence.
Build an offer specification and an intake form with estimated delivery hours and costs.
Plan a package pilot and decide what to revise when actual delivery differs from the estimate.
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Build a delivery cost bridge and calculate a price floor from a chosen target margin.
Distinguish margin from markup and compare value-based pricing, fixed fees, hourly billing and retainers.
Create a role rate card with explicit paid-hours and utilisation assumptions.
Set discount limits and draft three proposal options with defined scope.
Test changes in hours and costs, then record price revisions and approval exceptions.
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Draft a statement of work with deliverables, exclusions, assumptions and client input deadlines.
Set observable acceptance criteria, an authorised reviewer and an approval record.
Distinguish corrective work from new scope and record changes to price, effort and timing.
Separate delivery milestones, invoice triggers and payment due dates.
Build a scope-control review routine and flag unresolved terms for appropriate review.
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Separate paid hours, leave, protected non-client work and feasible client capacity.
Calculate utilisation with a named hours base and keep actuals separate from plans.
Compare confirmed demand with provisional scenarios and identify weekly gaps by role.
Compare hiring, subcontracting and rescheduling with ramp time, oversight and cash commitments.
Record a staffing decision with an owner, review date and explicit triggers.
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Reconstruct payroll-only margin, direct project contribution and a stated cost-recovery view.
Calculate realised price per hour using actual project effort.
Track unbilled work and invoice readiness without treating logged effort as automatic billing entitlement.
Separate invoiced amounts, recognised revenue and collected cash; assign overdue follow-up actions.
Build a weekly cash forecast, check conditional runway and record a profit or cash recovery action.
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Record client outcomes, evidence sources and the people who influence renewal.
Use dated delivery, relationship and payment signals to prioritise account recovery.
Prepare a quarterly business review agenda around client results and next priorities.
Map renewal dates, contractual notice deadlines and named decision owners.
Draft an expansion hypothesis after checking client need, delivery capacity and contribution; assign follow-up commitments.
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Choose one repeatable task and define its trigger, inputs and standard output.
Write a standard operating procedure with steps, owners and evidence of completion.
Assign responsibility and decision ownership, with explicit delegation limits and escalation routes.
Set quality checks and an onboarding practice task before client release.
Rehearse founder absence, record remaining dependencies and plan the next playbook revision.
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Select one delivery task and record its baseline human effort, cost and required output.
Define approved inputs, client permission and the system allowed to process them.
Prepare bounded prompts for scoping, proposals or reports, with sources and missing facts made explicit.
Set a human review gate and test missing evidence, incorrect totals and instructions embedded in untrusted content.
Compare assisted drafting, review and rework costs under fixed-fee and hourly billing; record pilot evidence and client disclosure.
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This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
3,370 HR consulting tools in one course: 2,395 ready-to-use files, templates, checklists and scripts, 128 services and apps shown on screen, plus 847 models and methods.
Open a lecture, take the tool, use it in this week's audit, client meeting or proposal.
Why HR consulting projects stall
A client does not pay for knowledge. A client pays for a diagnosis they trust and a plan they can carry out. Most new consultants know HR well and still lose weeks building every deliverable from scratch: the audit checklist, the interview guide, the report, the proposal, the pricing. The project drags, the margin disappears, and the next client is harder to win without a clear package to show.
What changes after this course
You arrive with the method already packaged. An audit you can start on day one. Interview and survey questions for each HR area. A report structure the client recognises as professional. A strategy and action plan template. A proposal, a price and a contract outline. You spend your time on the client's problem instead of on formatting documents.
What is inside: 3,370 tools, counted file by file
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
Where the tools are
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.
I have approached HR improvement by examining how a process works and making the intended process explicit. At the STB television channel, I was invited to improve recruitment and onboarding. I spent time understanding what was happening and where I could make improvements. I then drew the recruitment process as I thought it should work and agreed it with all parties; the situation improved. That experience informs the diagnosis and process design tools in this course.
How to use the course
Start with the eight core sections: they take you from the first client conversation to a delivered project and a priced service. Then treat the rest as a reference library. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name, so you can find the right tool for the project in front of you.
What is included
Where to start
Choose one HR area you know best and one company you could audit this month, even your own. Open the audit section, take the checklist and the interview script, and run the first diagnosis. Consultants with a packaged method win the next client faster, and every month of building deliverables from scratch is paid for out of your own margin. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.