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. Tradie Teams puts you beside other owners solving the same crew problems, and Freedom Fighter 1:1 works on your structure directly when the team is what holds you back.
How 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
The coaching goes into 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.
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
A coach who has run a trade business, in your corner, holding concreters to the plan.
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.
Talk It Through First.
The Crew, daily Q&A, starter courses and your complimentary coaching session. Free with an active ABN. No card, no trial clock.
Turning over $20k a month or more? Thirty minutes, one on one with a trade business coach, on what is capping the business and what to fix first.