Testimonials

Infocus Securities

Can I say that I have completed a few Leadership assessments over the years, and yours was by far the ‘best’. I am concerned that you know me better than myself. The Understanding Personalities workshops last week was also great - Thanks Kelly!

Simon RichardsGroup Finance & Administration Manager, Infocus

Southbank Insurance Brokers

Your service, knowledge, professionalism and ease to deal with is refreshing. Every company needs you they just don’t know it yet.

Tina SapoungisDirector, Southbank Insurance Brokers

Department of Infrastructure & Planning

From the outset, the team at HR Business Solutions were a pleasure to work with. Tina, Kelly, Angela and the team developed a unique and highly engaging team building day which was an outstanding success. I would not hesitate in recommending HR Business Solutions to any organisation requiring professional and comprehensive HR assistance. We look forward to working with you further in the New Year!

Brendan NelsonExecutive Director, Department of Infrastructre & Planning

Rio Tinto

I recently attended the "Understanding Personalities" workshop at Bretts Wharf in Brisbane hosted by HR Business Solutions. I found the workshop very interesting and informative. One of the key learnings was a clearer understanding of the different way in which individuals communicate. I think it is most beneficial to have a good understanding of your own personality as a starting point. The examples given of how others may hear, speak and react in situations was shown and some coaching regarding "not taking other persons reactions and actions personally" was well received.

Helen FosterPA - Chief Strategic Development Officer, Rio Tinto

McVeigh Consultants

HRBS has provided HR assistance to our firm for over five years. Most recently, they steered our management team through a comprehensive leadership coaching program. HRBS invested time in gaining a thorough understanding of our needs from the outset, and designed a program that met these specific needs, including leadership assessment, group workshops and individual coaching sessions. We saw immediate benefits from the program and feel it has made a major contribution toward building our leadership capital.

Michael McVeighManaging Director, McVeigh Consultants

McVeigh Consultants

McVeigh Consultants are an integrated engineering/architectural/project management firm of around 30 people. Tina Radford and the team at HR Business Solutions have been working with McVeigh Consultants to improve our HR practices over the last 12 months. Tina and all member of her team always strive to understand the business drivers of our firm, and then determine HR strategies consistent with these business goals. The HR Business Solutions team has not just produced glossy reports, they have helped develop and implement action plans and procedures to improve our HR practices. Everyone we have dealt with at HR Business Solutions is helpful, pro-active, reliable and knowledgeable. They really have made a difference to our business and my task as CEO of the firm.

Michael McVeighManaging Director, McVeigh Consultants

Terry White Chemists

Tina Radford has a unique ability to communicate, especially in difficult or sensitive areas, in a way that is motivational and confidence building. Her knowledge is all embracing across a number of disciplines which gives her the flexibility to work in a variety of industries, professions and businesses at any level she deems appropriate. Her commitment to a successful outcome is astounding.

Rhonda WhiteExecutive Director Terry White Chemists

Terry White Chemists

I just want to thank you for a great session this morning on Performance Counselling. I definitely feel much more confident now when advising managers here, especially those couple that are very ‘gung-ho’ and want to sack at the first sign of non-performance! I always come away from your seminars motivated and passionate about HR again, which I often need as it’s easy to get trapped in negativity about the role sometimes!

Lauren HighamHR Advisor, Terry White Management

LouenHide

Thank you SO much for inviting me to come along today. I really enjoyed it. I have a real thirst for knowledge and am very grateful to have found you (thanks Google). Its been a great pleasure working with you so far and I look forward to more in the future. You’re a great presenter Tina, for such a dry topic you had me captivated the whole 2 hrs."

Skye JonesOperations Manager, Louenhide

DiBella Coffee

I just wanted to thank you for running a very informative session today on the National Employment Standards, I have been to a few and your session was very practical, easy to understand and we found it really helpful in assisting us in identifying where we still need to do some work.

Melissa McManusHR/Strategy Manager, Di Bella Coffee

LGAQ

I have just completed my coaching journey with HRBS. My coach Kelly has heaps of energy and excellent insight into people. I ended up with some great material to work with from our sessions, which is already working well for me. I have also received positive feedback from my peers as a result, and I look forward to further coaching sessions with HRBS in the future. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend HRBS to any manager looking for assistance with professional development.

Mark PiorkowskiManager Advocacy, Local Government Association of Queensland

Cement Australia

We have had the pleasure of working with HRBS for some time now. The thing that sets them apart from other HR consultancies is their flexible and practical approach. We have been impressed that each of the HRBS consultants that we work with has taken the time to understand and get to know our business first hand. This, we believe, has enabled them to deliver high quality practical solutions that work for our business and consider HRBS to be an extension of our in-house HR Team. We at Cement Australia carefully consider who we partner with and we have not been disappointed with our choice in HRBS."

Sonia PittNational Employment Relations Manager, Cement Australia

Cement Australia

I have now attended nearly all of the Roundtable events and found them very worthwhile. I have found that you can become quite insular working within your organisation and these roundtable events have enabled me to meet with other HR professionals to share experiences, challenges, ideas and solutions to issues that we may be dealing with. The speakers and topics have been very relevant to the times that we are currently facing and each Roundtable has been very professionally run by Tina. It is also a great opportunity to meet with other like-minded HR professionals and hear what they are doing in their organisations.

Sonia PittNational Employment Relations Manager, Cement Australia

Talent2

I found the NES in a Nutshell seminar to be very helpful. It provided a concise overview of the issues affecting business and HR in relation to the changes in industrial relations in Australia, but made it practical and interactive so that it was then easily digested and applied back to business. Tina was a vibrant and informed speaker and made a dry topic very interesting. I definitely came away feeling much more informed and equipped to discuss the changes with Managers in their field

Andrea McDonaldDeputy General Manager, Talent2

Railways Credit Union

HR Business Solutions worked with us to conduct a HR Audit that included a gap analysis between what practices, policies and procedures we currently have in place and how these compare to best practice standards. The audit findings, provided by the consultant were invaluable. Overall, the process was extremely positive and provided an opportunity for development and improvement from both a compliance and organisational perspective.

Edible Blooms

THANK YOU for your timely and confident advice. I am absolutely sure that I wouldn’t have executed the task as smoothly as I did without your expert guidance. Tina you really are a wonderful voice on the other end of the phone

Kelly BakerManaging Director, Edible Blooms

Red PR

Kelly was fantastic. As a speaker myself I am often let down by others who are boring and not prepared or relevant. Kelly was none of these things. She represented your company well, was knowledgeable and entertaining. We all felt her presentation was one of our highlights of the conference. Can't give you enough good feedback.

Fleur Madden-TopleyManaging Director, Red PR

Youngcare

HR Business Solutions have been an integral part of helping grow our business and plan for the future. The tools, processes and thinking they apply are effective and enlightening. We feel that HRBS are an important part of our team ensuring we reach our potential and manage the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead

Simon LockyerCEO, Youngcare

Cutting Edge

The true benefit of HR Business Solutions' company style and advice is that they not only understand employment law and government legislation but they understand and respect the pressures of business. As a result their advice is always balanced in respecting the positions of both employers and employees.

Matthew LawsonCFO/Director, Cutting Edge

Fiftyplus

We worked with HRBS to establish a recruitment toolkit to assist in selecting candidates whom had both the right skills and cultural fit to our business. The team at HRBS listened to what we wanted to achieve and in conjunction with us, used their skills to establish a framework that not only satisfied our needs but created a much clearer and disciplined focus to our employment process. This would not have been achieved if HRBS went about imposing a standardised process upon our business

Shaun McBainGeneral Manager, Fiftyplus

Carter Newell

"There is simply not enough well structured networking opportunities in Brisbane and proactively HRBS established these roundtable sessions so a collection of HR professionals from different industries can openly share their common issues on relevant topics and come away with some very practical ideas. A great way to meet fellow professionals and upskill at the same time."

Belinda ParishHR Manager, Carter Newell

Vincents Accountants

I found the NES in a Nutshell presentation by Tina Radford one that I would highly recommend to anybody who wanted a general overview of the NES. If there were any particular areas that I wanted to get more information on Tina and her team were able to provide the required information. Tina delivered the information in a friendly, open informative way that kept your interest over the two hours. It was obvious that she was very well informed on the topic

John MillsDirector - Executive Search & Selection, Vincents Accountants

Iceberg Events

I met Tina Radford at just the right time! I had been thinking for some time that I needed to update my employment contracts and HR policies, so when I met Tina, I knew she could help me. While HRBS was in the process of updating all of my employment contracts, developing a KPI bonus scheme which I had been trying to get my head around for almost two years, and developing an employee handbook (which was long overdue), I was relieved to have access to their “HR Hotline” when a relationship with a new staff member deteriorated almost overnight. I was interstate with several major events happening simultaneously, and I just did not have the time or the headspace to adequately deal with this. I was able to hand all correspondence and background info over to Tina and her team for them to handle – meaning that what could have turned into an ugly situation was managed in a professional, caring, and efficient way, with minimal fuss. HRBS is an invaluable service for businesses like mine which are too small to have an HR professional on staff. With so many other things to think about in business, and with constantly changing legislation with regard to employee entitlements and industrial relations, it is comforting to know that I can make sure that I’m doing the right thing by my staff, but also be sure of what my rights are with regard to employment."

Jodie ParkerManaging Director, Iceberg Events

ZeroSeven

I recently attended the Managing Personalities Workshop and I thought the workshop was excellent, I thought Kelly was very enthusiastic, knowledgeable and was able to present the content and answer questions in a non-threatening way. We were particularly interested in attending because we occasionally have personalities that we don’t know how to motivate, Kelly’s workshop gave us the confidence to find out the real reasons behind the problems we can have. Thanks so much and I will consider a workshop for some of our other staff in the new year.

Margaret LipinskaDirector - Design & User Experience

Bretts Wharf

HRBS is a small yet flexible organisation that goes above and beyond for its clients. They are proactive in staying ahead of the ever changing landscape of HR & industrial relations and putting this into simple easily understood language with a practical application. I do and will continue to highly recommend HRBS.

Genny NielsonCo-Owner