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...
Managing virtual meetings is both an art and a science to make them as productive as a boardroom meeting. Meetings aren’t what they used to be. Not even close. The days of physically going to a particular place at a specific time are gone. In today’s...
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...
Add a proper computer clean-up to your list of chores. It’ll be the easiest and potentially most important task of all. My allergies are telling me it’s springtime again. You know what I’m talking about: watery eyes, ceaseless sniffing and nuclear-powered sneezing fits. There’s something about...
What is Data Visualization? Use technology to dig deeper into charts and graphs, changing data you see and how it’s processed. Remember back in math class learning how to make pie charts? Data visualization is the presentation of information in the form of a picture or a...
Keeping any project on time, on budget and on track is a complicated job. There’s so much to think about, so much to do. With so many moving parts, it’s a like a juggler trying to keep all their balls in the air at once,...
Days of the Week is a set of regular communications and actions that ensures all parties accomplish their project tasks. Did you ever notice how sales and marketing projects can create stressful environments? After a decade of managing, we at Sales Beacon most definitely have! After...