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Partners who care.

IR Unpacked 2025.

We are proud to be part of the Partners Who Care initiative, a collaboration between Queensland Fruit & Vegetable Growers (QFVG) – the state industry body representing Queensland’s commercial fruit, vegetable, and nut growers – and businesses like ours, who are dedicated to helping the horticulture sector thrive. 

Having supported hundreds of horticulture industry growers for the past few years, we understand the challenges Queensland’s growers face. As QFVG’s trusted workplace relations provider we are here to offer tailored HR/IR support, and tailored workplace relations services designed to meet the unique needs of this sector.

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Geared Up Workforce: HR & IR Training for Horticulture

In response to strong demand, we’re bringing practical, face-to-face HR/IR training to regional Queensland throughout 2025.

Open to all horticultural businesses – whether you’re a QFVG member or not – this training is designed to help you improve compliance and people management.

If HR/IR feels like a minefield, you’re not alone. The Geared Up Workforce program is here to help your team confidently navigate these challenges.

Delivered by Focus HR through the QFVG Geared Up Horticulture initiative and supported by regional grower groups, this hands-on training covers key compliance topics alongside essential people management skills. It covers key areas such as:

Horticulture Award Interpretation

Contracts of Employment

Delivering Feedback

Performance Management

What participants will receive

By participating in the Geared Up Workforce initiative, your business will also receive a range of valuable resources, including:

  • Horticulture Award Annualised Salary and All Up Hourly Rate Calculator
  • Performance Improvement to Management Kit
  • Casual Contract of Employment Templates
  • Access to useful workbooks, checklists, templates, and information sheets
  • A HR Health Check with personalised recommendations on how to improve your HR practices.

This is an opportunity to access highly practical, compliance-focused training that will equip you with the skills and knowledge needed to run a compliant and efficient business.

Learn more

The Geared up Horticulture initiative is supported by the QLD Horticulture Council and subsidised through SmartAg QLD – a collaboration between the QLD Farmer’s Federation and the QLD Government.

Dedicated Strategy Workshop

Delivery of an interactive and engaging process of strategic thinking and execution planning for your team, stepping you through outlining your goals, identifying potential roadblocks and coming up with solutions. This results in the creation of a three to five year business plan with the accountability of quarterly steps to see your goals become a reality.

Small Business Group Workshop

The delivery of a two-day Small Business Group Workshop which brings together owners and senior managers from five local businesses in non-competing industries to share their experiences and define the direction for their businesses. Our experienced facilitators will support you to develop a clear strategic plan and a realistic action plan.

Quarterly Review and Reset

The delivery of a quarterly review and reset (typically half a day) which holds everyone accountable, which celebrates successes or assists with understanding the reasons success wasn’t achieved, and resets goals for the following quarter. This continual cycle ensures that the focus on working towards an overall strategy is consistently reinforced.

Project Implementation Tools

Following the two-day strategic workshop, these tools will assist with keeping the strategic plan front and centre. Project implementation tools ensure you are putting all the right measures into place for your strategy to succeed.
FIND OUT ABOUT OUR SMALL BUSINESS GROUP WORKSHOP
Recommended to us from trusted associates, we started what is proving to be a valuable association with Naomi and her team that has challenged our thinking, focused our resolve and given us confidence that our ultimate goal can be achieved of giving our most precious resource (our people), proper structures, greater participation, clearer guidelines and security in pay and conditions.
Focus HR are now integrated into our business and what a valuable asset they have turned out to be.
Tony Walsh – General Manager

RASCI

The RASCI model is a tool that can be used for identifying roles and responsibilities. It can be used to clarify tasks in position descriptions as well as identifying expectations during an organisational change process. This tool helps by creating clearly identified and communicated activities with set delegations.

Workforce Planning

Workforce planning is all about having the right people in the right roles doing the right thing in the right way – both now and planning for the future based on your strategic direction. Structure follows strategy.

Functionality Chart

With input from management and utilising a functionality analysis tool, this chart visually displays the current allocation of work duties and responsibilities of your organisation at the strategic, operational and service delivery levels. This information is then analysed to identify gaps and identify who should be responsible for certain activities moving forwards.
Contact Us

Clarity Hearing Solutions is a small, family owned and operated Company that grew faster than even our own expectations. The growth brought increased levels of staffing and a need for more business structure.

Bringing Focus HR on board has enabled us to not only build the structure we required but allowed us to do this in a way that did not intimidate or upset our existing employees. Management is constantly learning through the mentoring from Naomi, with senior management feeling more confident in their HR interactions.

Sara Collins, Operations Manager, Clarity Hearing

Dedicated Strategy Workshop

Delivery of an interactive and engaging process of strategic thinking and execution planning for your team, stepping you through outlining your goals, identifying potential roadblocks and coming up with solutions. This results in the creation of a three to five year business plan with the accountability of quarterly steps to see your goals become a reality.

Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team

The Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team® assessment provides a model and vocabulary to use with your team to discuss areas of dysfunction or cohesion, a self-analysis that begins the discussion with honest disclosure, and a clear and challenging model for implementation.
Contact Us
Recommended to us from trusted associates, we started what is proving to be a valuable association with Naomi and her team that has challenged our thinking, focused our resolve and given us confidence that our ultimate goal can be achieved of giving our most precious resource (our people), proper structures, greater participation, clearer guidelines and security in pay and conditions.
Focus HR are now integrated into our business and what a valuable asset they have turned out to be.
Tony Walsh – General Manager

Dedicated Strategy Workshop

Delivery of an interactive and engaging process of strategic thinking and execution planning for your team, stepping you through outlining your goals, identifying potential roadblocks and coming up with solutions. This results in the creation of a three to five year business plan with the accountability of quarterly steps to see your goals become a reality.

Accountability Coaching

Designed to keep your focus on delivering outcomes and supporting you at the top where it can be lonely, accountability coaching ensures that the likelihood of success in implementing your strategy increases exponentially.
Contact Us
Recommended to us from trusted associates, we started what is proving to be a valuable association with Naomi and her team that has challenged our thinking, focused our resolve and given us confidence that our ultimate goal can be achieved of giving our most precious resource (our people), proper structures, greater participation, clearer guidelines and security in pay and conditions.
Focus HR are now integrated into our business and what a valuable asset they have turned out to be.
Tony Walsh – General Manager

RASCI

The RASCI model is a tool that can be used for identifying roles and responsibilities. It can be used to clarify tasks in position descriptions as well as identifying expectations during an organisational change process. This tool helps by creating clearly identified and communicated activities with set delegations.

Workforce Planning

Assistance with workforce planning to ensure your business has the right people in the right roles, doing the right thing in the right way – both now and planning for the future based on your strategic direction. Structure follows strategy.

Dedicated Strategy Workshop

Delivery of an interactive and engaging process of strategic thinking and execution planning for your team, stepping you through outlining your goals, identifying potential roadblocks and coming up with solutions. This results in the creation of a three to five year business plan with the accountability of quarterly steps to see your goals become a reality.
Contact Us
Recommended to us from trusted associates, we started what is proving to be a valuable association with Naomi and her team that has challenged our thinking, focused our resolve and given us confidence that our ultimate goal can be achieved of giving our most precious resource (our people), proper structures, greater participation, clearer guidelines and security in pay and conditions.
Focus HR are now integrated into our business and what a valuable asset they have turned out to be.

Tony Walsh – General Manager