Browse the latest insights from Creative Business President and Founder Jeanne Hardy, including actional business advice, tips and tricks, lessons learned and trends to watch, all tailored to the creative entrepreneur.
A recent survey found that more than 50% of employees are overwhelmed by too many communications via too many channels at work. And app proliferation costs businesses hundreds of millions of dollars a year in unused licenses. Introducing Levvy, a new solution aimed to overcome tech overload.
The age of remote work raises challenges for small businesses employing out-of-state workers. These businesses may lack the legal departments but are still held to the same regulatory requirements as larger businesses.
A marketing strategy is essential for any business looking to maximize potential, but business owners often put it last on their to-do list…or hope they can get by without it. Experts will tell you that is a classic mistake.
The four-day work week is the latest trend sweeping the business world. But can small businesses make the leap and still maintain productivity?
Working women have been through a lot in the past three years. Find out what’s working for women and what’s not, and how strong leadership, new tech and innovative organizational thinking are key to success for the next generation of female leaders.
With the end of the year upon us, small business owners are busy tying up loose ends. Here's a simple 10-point checklist to make sure you haven’t missed anything as you prepare for year-end.
Thinking about selling your business? We’ve got the answers to every question you’ve always wanted to ask.
All of the sudden everyone is talking about “quiet quitting.” But CHROs have been dealing with this phenomenon within their organizations for months.
Small businesses are encountering new challenges in the current economic climate. From rising wages to increasing interest rates, supply chain disruptions, growing inflation and a potential recession, CEOs are being forced to respond in new ways to a constantly shifting landscape. To help small business owners navigate some of today’s biggest pain points, we’ve rounded up some go-to strategies business leaders can lean on.
After two years of pandemic isolation, companies across America are trying to coax their employees back to the office, touting the benefits of “connection” and “collaboration.” But workers are resisting the push and all the drawbacks that come with it, like long commutes and expensive child care.
We’re conflicted about how we feel about work. More than 70% of us say we’re satisfied with our job and nearly just as many say work gives life meaning. At the same time, nearly half of us say we want to change our job in the near-term and 65% of us say we only work for financial reasons. What’s going on here?
Much of the high-churn in entry-level positions has been attributed to the Great Resignation. However, we’re likely looking at the emergence of a new phenomenon that includes a talent deficit, disinterest in roles that require routine or repetitive activities and the corresponding need to restructure how our businesses operate.
Adopting Kaizen can help CEOs harness their 2022 optimism, while also setting reasonable benchmarks and focusing on improving the areas that matter most in the immediate term.
This fall the number of people quitting their jobs reached the highest ever recorded with the “Great Resignation” in full tilt. It’s especially important that small businesses — which traditionally have fewer staff, a smaller client roster, and need to operate more nimbly — have a plan for how they handle staff attrition internally and externally.
In a competitive labor market, businesses often look to HR to boost their benefits package to attract and retain talent, but hybrid work has thrown a wrench into many of the traditional go-to benefits. We’ve compiled some ideas your employees will love.
As companies redefine the workplace and the workday, it’s important that they consider the business’s software as an essential component of the transformation equation. Companies that plan to adopt hybrid and remote work permanently need to be more deliberate about the tools and technologies they deploy.
The switch from primarily in-person to remote work has upended the mainstays of traditional onboarding. What used to be a very personal and face-to-face experience is now done from home behind a computer screen. And yet, onboarding remains one of the most important experiences in an employee’s tenure at an organization.
The debate around the return to the office this fall is inescapable. But the topic is often framed as a polarizing decision in which you can pick between one of two camps: A complete return to the pre-pandemic 9-to-5; or, an undefined, every-man-for-himself remote/hybrid approach.
Now is the time for business owners to reorient themselves to post-pandemic conditions and hit the reset button.
This shift to hybrid work means that the office itself will need to evolve. With the majority of work happening remotely, the actual office will no longer serve as a work space, but rather as a culture space.