Category: Blog

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

Providing support for young apprentices is paramount to ensuring they have mentally healthy experiences in the workplace. Find out how you, as a workplace leader and an organisation, can look after the mental health and wellbeing of young apprentices as they start out in the automotive trade industry.

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 refers to how we feel when we’re at work. The goal of workplace wellbeing is to [...]