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TRADE LEADER ARCHIVES
Previous issues are available below
February-March 2024
Key highlights
- Understanding how the market drives interest rates
- Is it time to expand your team?
- Back to work? Keep your cool
- Women in Trade - where we're at in 2024
December-January 2024
Key highlights
- Looking ahead to 2024: Hot takes on hot topics
- Emerging trends in construction risk
- How tired is your team?
- Nine warning signs you can't afford to miss
October-November 2023
Key highlights
- Code of Ethics and what it means to you
- Eliminating risk and planning for a crisis
- Odds favour protracted high interest rates
- When enough is enough
August-September 2023
Key highlights
- ‘Cavalier approach' to working at height
- Boardroom risk management 101
- Parenting tips for business owners
- Protecting your assets
June-July 2023
Key highlights
- Safety tips to work well this winter
- Lessons learnt from WorkSafe prosecutions
- Five cashflow strategies you need to know
- Sharp economic downturn
April-May 2023
Key highlights
- Integrating emerging technologies
- Boss Burnout: Measures to cope
- Threat of scams: Stay alert, make a plan
- Are you covered for mistakes?
February - March 2023
Key highlights
- RMA reforms set to reduce confusion & cost
- Asbestos risk in spotlight
- How to avoid not getting paid
- Be more secure online
- Do you need professional indemnity insurance?
December 2022 - January 2023
Key highlights
- Apprentice of the Year 2022
- Lessons from Constructive 2022
- How to avoid not getting paid
- Should you offer shares to your employees?
- Increased focus on construction Health and Safety
October - November 2022
Key highlight
- Implementing H1 insulation regulations
- The implications of undertaking supervision
- 7 things you must do in a recession
August - September 2022
Key highlights
- H1 Insulation regulations - What's changing and when?
- Work should not hurt - new CHASNZ initiative
- 5 Tips for smooth sailing with clients
- Hired scaffolding, are you responsible?
June - July 2022
Key highlights
- BIMSafe NZ – taking health and safety to another dimension
- 5 ways to keep young staff working hard
- Apprentice of the Year for all ages
- The battle to control inflation
April - May 2022
Key highlights
- 5 ideas to stop your staff from leaving
- Disposable respirators and COVID-19
- Trend towards townhouses
- Implications of sunset clauses
February - March 2022
Key highlights
- 3 simple ways to free up your time
- Proposed construction vaccination protocols
- Building License cancellations
- Building industry set up for a fall
December 2021 - January 2022
Key highlights
- Secure your site for Christmas
- Uncertainty over Clean Car Feebate Scheme
- Building for diversity
- Report highlights sector trends
October - November 2021
Key highlights
- Failures in weather tightness
- New COVID guidelines released
- Stay safe working this summer
- Estimating your time
August - September 2021
Key highlights
- Save lives with Life Shavers
- The building supply crisis - new normal?
- Are policies favouring new builds?
- Fix the fails that derail your business
June - July 2021
Key highlights
- Important times for apprenticeships
- Build a plan to keep your business moving forward
- Suicide programme seeks support
- How to reduce building waste
April - May 2021
Key highlights
- Changes to insulation requirements
- COVID recovery and mortgage interest rates
- Why you need a shareholders agreement
- What to consider before you take on more staff
February - March 2021
Key highlights
- Report show future impact of COVID-19
- House of the Year winners announced
- Managing Business Capacity
- Implications of low interest rates
December 2020 - January 2021
Key highlights
- Apprentice of the Year 2020 national winners announced
- What does the election mean for residental building
- Protect yourself during summer
- The duties of directors
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