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How Business Owners Can Support Employee Work-Life Balance
Balancing your professional and private life is a hot topic in business. Whether debating remote work, a 4-day work week, or added benefits for employees, the suggestions keep rolling in. But business owners are in a great position to support employee work-life...
4 Ways Tracking Finances Helps Small Businesses Thrive & Your 7-Step Guide
Every business - no matter the size - shares a similar goal: increasing profits while decreasing costs. But how is that possible with all the competing priorities of running a business? Tracking the movement of your monetary funds is never easy, but it’s one important...
Boundaries & Self-Care Ideas for the Holidays
With the holidays just around the corner, it’s an excellent opportunity to recharge for another year of living to the fullest. Now is the time to set boundaries and practice self-care for the holidays! Experiencing burnout, loss of motivation, and a general sense of...
10 Steps for Developing Your Process
Developing an effective process is the key to a smooth sailing business, no matter how large or small. Not every business follows the same pattern or steps because the process is personalized to your company. However, these 10 steps for developing your process...
Strategic Planning for Your Business
Are you contemplating a business strategy for your company but unsure where to begin? Or maybe you’re avoiding long-term strategic planning because of the technicalities involved. You’re not the only one. Numerous business owners are unsure about what strategy...
The Road to Success: Building a Routine
Successful people emphasize how building a routine can lead to success. There’s a good reason for that. 92% of high performers and successful people have a routine. Routines are tried and tested to boost motivation, productivity, and, most importantly, your...
Managing Change: Five Ways To Improve User Adoption
Identifying ways to improve user adoption should be a core goal of your change management plan from the beginning. When your impacted audience confirms, accepts, and utilizes the change, you'll know user adoption was a success. The higher your rate and speed of...
Managing Change: How to Communicate Change Management
As the old saying goes, change is inevitable. Whether it’s moving to a new location, expanding your team, adopting new or changing technology, or adjusting a policy, your business will continuously need to adapt. How you communicate change management can be the...
Managing Change: The Importance of Change Management
Do you know first hand the importance of change management? If you've been on the receiving end of a difficult change, or you're tasked with implementation, you won't want to miss this three-part series! Read on to learn more about the difference between change...
Books to Inspire Your Inner Boss
Inspiring your inner boss to become (or remain) a strong leader means recognizing the importance of external stimulation. A great way to do just that is by adding a few leadership books to your reading list. We’ve pulled together recommendations from three highly...
When to Scale Your Business
How do you determine when it's time to scale your business? The answer will differ from business to business (i.e., if you’re super specialized vs. mass production), but here are some important decision criteria to consider along with actions to take when you're ready...
The Magical Art of Saying No
There’s a special art of saying no that is important to master. And while it may seem contradictory, learning to say no can result in higher productivity. It's a way to set boundaries, take ownership of your time, and teach people how and when they have access to your...
Reading Roundup: Volume Four
Expanding your knowledge, learning new skills, and/or growing personally and professionally can keep you from falling victim to one of the six career challenges we discuss in this month's blog. We've given you a stepping stone with some reading suggestions. These...
6 Career Challenges and How to Overcome Them
While the workplace has been, and will forever be, constantly evolving, there are some common career challenges that are timeless no matter how unique we think today's workplace is. Whether you've landed your first professional position or are an experienced CEO,...
6 Questions to Evaluate Your Business Idea
We’re frequently asked questions about our work, whether it’s “What do you do?” or “How’s work going?” or something more detailed about our projects, goals, or work-life balance. But beyond the basics, there are a few questions we answer regularly...and we recommend...
Evaluating Your Team’s Strengths
Teamwork is the cornerstone of every successful company, and knowing the value of evaluating your team's strengths is paramount. Knowing your team’s strengths—and how to play into them—will lead to increased productivity, efficiency, and enjoyment for those on the...
Year-End Performance Review Prep
Believe it or not, year-end is upon us, which means it's time for year-end performance reviews. Performance reviews are a great way to showcase your accomplishments, identify goals you want to achieve in the coming year, gather feedback on your performance, and...
Process Design Creativity
One of Simply Hudson’s specializations is in process design. Now, you may think processes are pretty straightforward and an unlikely candidate for creativity, but we’re here to tell you they’re not! When approaching process designs, we strive to ensure the end-goal is...
Creativity in the Workplace
When you read the words “creativity in the workplace,” what comes to mind? Do you laugh because it still seems out of place? Do you nod an enthusiastic yes because you love innovation? Maybe you’re not quite sure what “creativity in the workplace” means. No matter...
8 Things Leaders Do Every Day
“Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.” —Vince Lombardi Becoming a top-tier leader doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time, effort, practice, failure, feedback, reflection—you don’t just muster through to...
Work-Life Balance: Keep Work-Life Balance in Check
BUILD your boundaries to keep your work-life balance in check. Our last article explained each concept in detail, but here’s quick a recap before we dive in further. BurnoutYou’re stressed, overwhelmed, overworked, irritable or depressed. Check out this post...
Reading Roundup: Volume Three
Building time into your daily routine, along with some sunny summer days, helps keep learning and growth at the forefront. While we’ve been busy working with our incredible clients and a flurry of projects, we’ve also made time to catch up on our reading list—and we...
Work-Life Balance: Building Boundaries
Creating boundaries for work-life balance is a multi-step process. The first step is identifying burnout, the second understanding why (i.e., self-reflecting). This month, we're onto the third step: identifying. Recap As we explored in March in A Balancing Act...
Work-Life Balance: Boundaries for an Even Keel
Work-life balance doesn’t create itself. In our first article, we established what can cause an imbalance in the work-life dynamic: The need for distraction Belief that working more equates to living more Feelings of boredom Simply Hudson can work with you on a...
Work-Life Balance: A Balancing Act Worth the Wobbles
There’s nothing like an impactful event to make you take a close look at your life and, in particular, your work-life balance. It may be positive, like an opportunity to move abroad, or it may be negative, like the death of a beloved family member. Whatever it may be,...
Working Remotely: Communication Skills for Successful Remote Work
Your communication may be top tier face to face, but have you assessed your communication skills for successful remote work? We believe communication is the number one skill needed to be a great remote worker, and we're offering unique and accessible tips to ensure...
Reading Roundup: Volume Two
We’ve been busy launching holiday deals and working with our incredible clients, but we’ve also kept making time to read high on our priority list. Building time into our morning routine and taking advantage of some sunny beach days helps keep learning and growth at...
Working Remotely: Overcoming Remote Work Challenges
Many companies are adapting to permanent remote work for their employees. For some, this is exciting: they’ve discovered increased productivity, feel safer, enjoy their environment, and the freedom to control their day. But for others, remote work is not as ideal....
Is Your Process Powerful?
When implemented correctly, effective process leads to increased employee satisfaction, optimized project budgets and an aligned customer experience. Others agree with us! Take a look at your organization: Do you have a powerful process supporting it or do you need...
Working Remotely: Benefits, Challenges, Skills & Advice
The global workforce is experiencing exponential change as businesses adapt to the new environment brought on by COVID-19. At Simply Hudson, we embraced technology and the benefits of working remotely in early 2018 and have helped others adjust to their new normal. As...
7 Ways a Consultant Can Help Scale Your Business
When you’re involved in every aspect of your business, it can be difficult to see opportunities and solutions...you can’t see the forest for the trees. You're sucked into the day-to-day operations with no opportunity to concentrate on the bigger picture—and by bigger...
5 Reasons to Hire an Executive Business Coach
It’s time for a reality check: You’re stressed, struggling to set boundaries or say no to your management team You're overwhelmed by the work being thrown at you and are stuck in reactive mode You’re burnt out and ready to quit You want control over your job and...
But What is Coaching?
I discovered the difference between my learned values and my core values. I overcame fears and found new motivation to create a different lifestyle. I created new habits to help maintain a positive mindset and break my burnout cycles.
Reading Roundup: Volume One
What’s better to do in quarantine than launch a business and…read!
Overcoming Productive Procrastination
As I thought further, I saw that I’ve fallen into this conundrum many times! I discovered productive procrastination was holding me back from achieving my goals.
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