Want to prove how valuable your team or your project is? Need to secure buy-in from stakeholders or cross functional teams? Quarterly Business Reviews are one way to ensure that you rise above the crowd. In just 10 minutes, Sales Beacon's CEO shares how we...
Rural areas comprise 95% of Canada’s land mass, employ 4.9 million people and generates 30% of our GDP. When you think about Canada, what springs to mind? For most people, endless wheat fields, frigid snowy landscapes and soaring mountains are among the first ideas. Canoes on...
We can’t do our best work if we’re struggling to hear each other. Sound matters. What did you say? Can you hear me? WHAT DID YOU SAY??!! Is there anything more frustrating than bad communication? I’m not talking about a poor choice of words, I’m referring...
Our goals going into any organization are to keep everything on track and keep everyone happy and stress-free. Teams using Sales Beacon’s virtual project management have consistently better results than other teams. Not bragging, just stating a fact. Clients keep coming back to us because they...
To maximize time and meet sales targets, have a strategy that keeps your focus on your #1 goal - making the sale! Do you often find yourself wondering where the day went? Are unwanted distractions bogging you down? Are you searching for a way for your...
Sales Beacon continually endeavors to celebrate the many differences that make us unique and help make our story successful. Isn’t life too predictable? It’s easy to keep your head down, stay in your lane and put yourself and your business on cruise control. But where’s the...
Real project management fires, like real building fires, are rare. FIRE! Everybody knows what a fire drill is. You’ve participated in dozens of them in your life, I’ll bet. There’s a pattern. Usually some joker or malcontent pulls an alarm lever, resulting in a loud siren...
Started using Scrum for your business projects? Having a few challenges? You don’t need to. Find out how some simple adjustments can make Scrum work for business projects. In this lively 30 minute panel discussion, we’ll discover the easy fixes that Sales Beacon implemented to...
There’s nothing like “Working at 17,600 feet!” A photo of Sales Beacon CEO, Cynthia Spraggs working on her laptop at Everest Base Camp took one of two first prizes in WEConnect International’s contest for women business owners. The contest, part of WEConnect’s Make an Impact campaign, asked women...
Sales Beacon has been named one of Canada’s Top Small and Medium Employers in 2018. For the past decade, Sales Beacon has been finding and training talented individuals in Canada’s rural communities on how to more effectively manage end-to-end projects in today’s fast-moving, virtual and collaborative...