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Attracting Women to Your Organisation

With women’s participation in trades at just 2%, it is vital that organisations increase the number of women working in trades roles to increase innovation, diversity of ideas and bottom-line performance. Employers often ask Tradeswomen Australia how they can get more women through the doors of their organisation, and we think it starts with the job advertisement itself.

Workplace Leaders: The Champions of Change

Throughout the Workplace Diversity Project and all its elements, we aim to equip the leaders we work alongside with the skills and knowledge to be diversity and inclusion champions in their workplaces. Leaders must be active and engaged participants in any workplace change process; they need to have the desire for the change to occur […]

How Do I Recruit Diverse Tradespeople?

Whether it be job posting sites, the language used throughout the advertisement, or the interview process, unconscious and conscious bias can have negative impacts on your organisation’s ability to recruit diverse employees. Unconscious bias is when people switch to autopilot and allow their brains to automatically categorise and process information about people based on past […]

Workplace culture and its impact on attraction and retention

Workplace culture is the accumulation of beliefs, behavioural expectations and value systems that combine to create an organisation’s working environment. A positive and supportive workplace culture can be the difference when it comes to attraction and retention in the industry. Leaders within an organisation are responsible for setting an example and upholding the organisations values […]

How do Diverse & Inclusive Workplaces contribute to improved mental health & wellbeing?

Research shows that a diverse and inclusive workforce produces benefits such as increased productivity, profitability and competitiveness within an organisation. Developing a diverse and inclusive workforce not only creates organisational success, but also leads to the prevention of mental injuries and improvement of mental health and wellbeing for workers. Globally, COVID-19 has made it incredibly […]

Inductions and Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Inductions are an important aspect of any employee life cycle. Within the trade industry, safety inductions play a crucial role in ensuring employees can reduce, remove, and prevent physical injuries in the workplace. Regular toolbox meetings are conducted to refresh measures and avoid safety breaches. Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) are utilised on worksites to […]

Mature Aged Apprentices: How can we support them and their mental wellbeing?

  To ensure optimal performance, retention, and engagement of your team, it is important to understand and cater to the different needs of different groups of employees. While all apprentices will enter their roles with a certain level of inexperience in a trade, strategies to support and empower mature age apprentices differ from that of […]

Workplace Wellbeing: what is it and how does it impact productivity?

How does positive mental health and wellbeing contribute to productive, happy workplaces? This article will delve into the concept of mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, how poor work cultures and environments affect productivity, and the important factors within good mental health and wellbeing can improve worker performance.

Workplace Wellbeing: what is it and how does it impact productivity?

  Workplace Wellbeing: what is it and how does it impact productivity? Workplace wellbeing refers to how we feel when we’re at work. The goal of workplace wellbeing is to ensure that all employees feel safe, valued, included, and respected while in the workplace. Many of us spend more time with our colleagues and customers […]