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Beacon Resources · 1M ago

Live and at Lunch with BRNG and LinkedIn

Live and at Lunch with BRNG and LinkedIn Contact: Sheila Carmody (518) 366-6148 Albany, NY (4/10/2012) – Twice a month in Albany and Saratoga Springs a group of business professionals gather in a private room at a local restaurant to focus on professional development, build business relationships an
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Beacon Resources · 8M ago

Tedious Career

What are you doing with your career that is “Tedious”?  Is your career purposeful? When your feet hit the floor in the morning do you look forward to going to work? Are you in it simply for the money, taking care of your family, or are you fearful of change? The latter one is the [...]
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Beacon Resources · 11M ago

Distinguish Yourself

Hundreds of thousands of people are looking for a job in an economy that appears to be not recovering. What can an individual do to distinguish themselves from other applicants? Look at yourself as though you are a product and/or merchant in a crowded market. What makes you high-quality merchandise?
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Beacon Resources · 1Y ago

What have you learned grasshopper?

Sometimes when you succeed in your goals you also fail to achieve your goals. How can that be? Setting a goal large or small is a common practice especially on New Year’s Eve. Having a strategic plan for your business sets a policy and standards for everyone to work towards. Everyone knows the plan
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Beacon Resources · 1Y ago

Digital Communication

Today we live in a fast paced digital communication arena where we are exchanging thoughts, ideas and spending our advertising dollars in the digital medium. For the workaholic this can be a saving of time and dollars as he/she can be multi-tasking pretty much as warp speed. However, with anything t
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Beacon Resources · 1Y ago

Career Defining Moment

Decisions Every decision we make in business determines the course of some type of action or actionable step. Decisions can have a profound effect on the business not just in the immediate day-to-day operations that might make the company more competitive, but also for years to come. Decisions can r
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Beacon Resources · 1Y ago

Politics and Truth

Sad Day for America!   The S&P lowered our rating from Stable to Negative. Our President appears to have lied when he signed the agreement with the Republicans to reduce spending by 38.5 million dollars this year. If what has been reported turns out to be true, then he now is planning to ignore what
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Beacon Resources · 1Y ago

“What’s in it for me?”

“What’s In It for me?”  More times than not, when I’m pre-screening an applicant for membership in my networking group, BRNG, this question comes up in some form or another; perhaps not directly, though the emphasis is there. What I focus on is educating applicants that networking is about becoming
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Beacon Resources · 1Y ago

What Limits You Achieving Your Goals?

There are as many answers to this question as there are goals. Some might answer that they simply don’t have the time to do what they want to do. Another might be that the money isn’t there. Still another might answer that they don’t have the talent or ability or even the self-confidence to achieve
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Beacon Resources · 1Y ago

Breaking the Paradigm

How do you get beyond the status quo - “this is the way we’ve always done it, to changing the way people think about a product, service, idea, event? Effective Communication…Anticipate Trends and incorporate them before you need to react to them and then communicate these trends to your customers in
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