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Running a business is a difficult, arduous, time-consuming task that requires your full attention and devotion. You become attached to your business and, essentially, your business becomes your baby. That’s why, when faced with a negative review or comment from an outsider, the natural reaction is to be defensive or dismissive. “What would they know?” is an all too common phrase heard from business owners all over the world.

How often have you had an employee who comes to work and is clearly in a negative mindset? Are they consistently showing up to work late or complaining about the jobs they are assigned? As soon as you know it, this infectious negative attitude is spreading to other team members and is having a serious impact on your workplace. Unfortunately, when members of a team are underperforming or continually show up to work with bad attitudes, team leaders are quick to blame the employees.

Owning a business is stressful. Long hours, managing multiple jobs and employees, and significant financial risk are just some of the stressors you will face throughout your career.

Are you finding that when you have a problem at work or are having a stressful day, you tend to bring that problem home with you? Is this resulting in you feeling irritable, anxious or sad and that you tend to take these emotions out on those around you or find yourself being unable to sleep at night? Having the ability to “switch off” once you’ve finished a working day is often not easy.

As a tradie, you could provide the best service, have the most knowledgeable team, be the cheapest and most efficient in the business and all this could result in nothing without new customers. No matter how solid your business foundation is, you still need to be practising good marketing techniques and spending time on improving your lead generation or you will find your business struggling to bring in new customers. Luckily, there are a few simple ways you can improve the amount of leads you generate so you can grow your business and offer your services to the widest audience possible.

The average Australian tradie is often stereotyped as being strong, unemotional and easy going. Expecting people to live up to this image is completely unrealistic at the best of times, and now more than ever.As a result of this pressure to meet the stereotype, many tradies try to be stoic and push negative feelings to the back of their minds, avoiding discussing any issues with friends and family so as not to appear weak. While tradies will openly chat about physical health, the discussion of mental health is still regarded as somewhat taboo (particularly on the job site) and as a result, is often avoided until someone's at their breaking point.This culture helps contribute to these alarming stats: