Attracting tradies: Why you need to change your work culture

You’re probably having staff issues, right? Hiring tradies is hard, getting staff to follow systems and structures is a struggle, poor attitudes are a thing, …

Can’t have a holiday, choose your own content adventure!

This week, we’re bringing you a hit of great content for your reading, watching and listening pleasure. This way, you can choose your own adventure! …

What tradies can learn from New Zealand’s drastic lockdown

This week, Metropolitan Melbourne moved to Stage 4 Restrictions — the world’s strictest lockdown. As a state of disaster is declared, Melbournian tradies are among …

Dream of getting off the tools? Try this

By Andy and Angela Smith Dream of getting off the tools? We’d say this is one of the main reasons tradies in business, like you, …

How KPIs can solve employee underperformance

Has the COVID-19 situation revealed the weak links in your team? While most of your tradies have shown up with a can-do attitude, grateful to …

3 Things you can do to stay positive right now

This week, we’ve again changed up the format of our article to you as part of Lifestyle Tradie’s positive and practical response to the curveball …

Subcontractor versus employee: what’s best for tradies in business?

Written by Andy Smith Subcontractor versus employee? This is an old chestnut of a dilemma for tradies in business when hiring new team members. What …

Working with your partner: Feel like you’re on a rollercoaster?

Written by Angela Smith People will call you crazy for working with your partner. The struggle is real if you’re a tradie wife (or partner), …

Top 6 job management software for tradies

Written by Andy and Angela Smith Job management software does lots of the heavy lifting for tradies in business. It allows you to coordinate and …

Reveal: 3 big changes at Lifestyle Tradie in 2020

We’re thrilled to unveil 3 big changes at Lifestyle Tradie this week. Over the last few months, our team has done some serious work behind …

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