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Matt Jones and Vicky Erwin discuss effective staff onboarding strategies for trade businesses.

🎯 Free Tools for Growing Trade Businesses: https://tradie.wiki/pod 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 Book a Free Strategy Call with Tradie Web Guys: https://tradie.wiki/tssyt How do you onboard new tradies properly so they actually stick around past week one? In Episode 493 of The Site Shed Podcast, Matt Jones sits down with Vicky Irwin from Network Plumbing to unpack what effective staff onboarding really looks like in a growing trade business. If you’ve ever hired in a rush, thrown a new apprentice or technician in...

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Host: Matt Jones

Guest: Vicky Erwin

Topics covered

• onboarding
• trade business
• staff retention
• effective training
• employee engagement

Keywords

• onboarding
• tradies
• staff training
• trade business
• employee retention

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Network Plumbing

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