TradesConcretersHiring and team
Concreter Business HiringYou can win the work. Whether you can pour it depends on who turns up on Tuesday.
Hiring for concreting businesses. Finding finishers and labourers who show up, paying them correctly under the award, training them so the pour does not need you, and keeping them when the crew down the road offers an extra dollar.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Concreting Business?
A good finisher is nearly impossible to find
Anyone can push a shovel. The bloke who can read a slab as it goes off, get the timing right on the trowel and leave a finish you would put your name on is rare, and the crew down the road has already offered him more.
The award is a maze and the risk is yours
The Building and Construction General On-site Award sets the minimum, the classification level decides the rate, and allowances for fares, travel and tools stack on top of it. Get it wrong and it is your problem, not theirs, and the rates move again every July.
Pour day falls apart when one man does not show
The truck is booked and cannot be moved for free. Six o'clock comes, one bloke is not answering, and you are ringing around while the batch plant loads. So you end up in the middle of the pour again, doing the job you hired someone else to do.
You stay stuck at the size your own two hands allow, because every attempt to grow the crew has cost you money, sleep or a job you had to go back and fix.
Hiring and team
Here Is What We Do About It.
The hiring, team and leadership training covers where to find concreters worth having, how to bring them on so they can run a pour, and how to keep them. Greg works through the big hiring calls with you directly. And the hires have changed: agents can now do the quoting, invoicing and chasing your way, so the people you add are the ones facing your customers and leading your crew.
Free tool, no sign-up
Apprentice cost calculator
Wages and on-costs are the easy part. This adds the weeks they are at trade school, the on-site hours that never reach an invoice, and the supervision time that pulls a qualified tradesperson off their own work, then gives you what one billable apprentice hour actually costs. It runs in your browser and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Work out the real costHow it works
Three Steps, Starting Tonight.
Hire before you are desperate
Every bad hire in this industry happens in the same week: the week you were already too busy. The training covers hiring on a plan instead of on a panic.
Give them a system to follow
People do not fail because they are lazy. They fail because nobody wrote down what good looks like. That is why systems and hiring are the same problem.
Lead them, then get off the tools
Greg works the bit that is genuinely hard: running a team when you were trained as a tradesperson, and letting go of work you can do faster yourself.
Why you get me
I built the coaching company everyone else runs. Then I took it apart.
Most coaching companies work the same way. You enquire, you get a salesperson. You sign up, you get a coach who has never run a trade business.
I know, because I built one. I grew the Academy to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches. It ran without me.
And I hated it. The bigger it got, the further I was from the owners I started it for.
What gets me up in the morning is getting under the hood of a trade business and helping the owner hit their goals in the least time possible.
So I restructured the whole thing.
When you enquire, you speak to me. If you are accepted into the Academy, you work with me. Directly.
And with agentic AI, the results come sooner than most owners can imagine.
Places are limited. I only take on owners who are committed and ready to do the work.
Who you will be talking to
I built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with more than 1,950+ five-star reviews.
A general manager runs it day to day. I live in Byron Bay.
I have trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.
What AI actually changes
The old way. The new way.
More customers meant more people doing your computer work, and you paying for all of it.
You stay with your customers and your team. Agents run the office your way.
The old way
Grow, then hire people to do the computer work.
Every new customer brought more quoting, invoicing, chasing, scheduling and reporting.
So you hired people to do it. Office staff, bookkeepers, admin.
None of it is billable, and every hire costs wages, sick leave and another person to manage.
Profit and time only grew as fast as you could add people.
The new way
Keep the human work. Give everything else to agents.
Your people do what only people can do: looking after customers and leading the team.
Everything else goes to agents that do it your way, instantly, any time it is needed.
No sick leave. No capacity problems. They scale as far as the business does.
So the only people you add are the ones facing your customers and your team.
A human-centred business that runs on systems you build in minutes. Nobody still running the old way can compete with it.
What changes
What Concreting Business Hiring Actually Changes.
Three things concreting business owners walk away able to do.
Hire a concreter or labourer without guessing the award classification
Train a leading hand who can run a pour day without you on site
Keep good crew by leading properly instead of simply paying more
Questions
Concreter Business Hiring, Answered.
What award and rates apply to the concreters I employ?
When can I afford my first employee or apprentice?
How do I stop good concreters leaving for an extra dollar?
Concreters
The Other Ways We Help Concreters.
Concreter Business Training
Structured training that turns what concreters know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingConcreter Business Coaching
Greg Allan in your corner, holding concreters to the plan. By application.
SystemsConcreter Business Systems
The documented process that lets the work happen properly when concreters are not standing there.
The free appConcreter Business App
Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for concreters with an active ABN.
Marketing and leadsConcreter Business Marketing
How concreters get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitConcreter Business Pricing
The number concreters should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Have a Chat With Greg About Your Business.
An hour with Greg, one on one, about anything in your trade business. By application: if his diary is full, you join his waitlist and he invites you. He only takes owners who are committed.