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Pamila Kew / April 20, 2021

Featured Cients GoProto

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Located in Portland, Oregon, GoProto offers end-to-end solutions for your product development and production needs. It specializes in quick-turn, on-demand, custom manufacturing of metal and plastic parts, utilizing 3D printing, CNC machining, sheet metal, cast urethane, injection molding, and various finishing techniques.

Pamila Kew / April 19, 2021

SM Spotlight Rhapsody Strategies

Do you have an entrepreneurial or leadership vision? Are you stuck when it comes to executing your ideas, or knowing where to start? Thankfully, Rhapsody Strategies has the energy, passion, and know-how to help you live up to your full potential.

“[Rhapsody Strategies] helps [its] clients transform into sophisticated leaders who shape the face of business,” Steve Osmond, coach and original team member of Rhapsody Strategies, said.

Since 2014, Rhapsody Strategies has excelled in coaching and mentoring clients for business leadership. It has offices in Ottawa, Ontario and Calgary, Alberta, but serves clients across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

The name Rhapsody Strategies came from the founding team’s business philosophy. They wanted a name to depict the art and architecture of their new company.

“For art, we chose ‘rhapsody,’ because it is a song that tells an amazing story… [and] each client’s business will be their own epic story,” Osmond said. For architecture, the word ‘strategies’ encompasses the team’s commitment to forward-movement and action-based plans help that their clients.

Among Rhapsody Strategies’ impressive portfolio is personal, business, and executive coaching, crisis coaching, and various kinds of training to help its clients fill in skill gaps. One exciting program they offer is JumpStart, an intensive four-hour Coaching session specially designed to accelerate new businesses.

Schooley-Mitchell-Alberta-cost-reduction-services-community-contact-Rhapsody-Strategies-Steve-OsmondWhen asked, Osmond described his clients as Rhapsody Strategies Rhapsody Strategies ‘ JumpStart Program
“winners who at this point might be losing.”

He said they are often people with brilliant minds, great ideas, passion, and drive, but they struggle with some key skills needed to excel in business. That’s where Rhapsody Strategies comes in. They are dedicated to helping clients who know they are meant for more, fulfill their huge potential.

“My only goal is your success,” he said. “It’s a real sense of being able to put my abilities into a position of serving others.”

Rhapsody Strategies is made up of a team of six master coaches whose client-centered method has a proven history in helping leaders achieve their goals.

Osmond, a former pastor of twenty years with an empathic and active-listening approach to coaching, said Rhapsody Strategies is careful and considerate about who represents them. Each coach must have the proven track record, training, tools, and shared team values to work at Rhapsody Strategies. In fact, despite their years of experience, Rhapsody Strategies provides ongoing monthly training to keep its team’s skills sharp.

They are always asking for and appreciating client feedback, to make sure they are providing the best quality experience to every person with whom they work.

To learn more about Rhapsody Strategies team and how its team can help you fulfill your full potential, visit its website at www.rhapsodystrategies.com.

 

 

Pamila Kew / April 16, 2021

Check out Daily Rain, Inc.

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Whether you need residential or commercial sprinkler services, look no further than Daily Rain, Inc. With its team of skilled technicians, you will receive nothing but quality systems and world-class service!

Pamila Kew / April 16, 2021

SM Spotlight Stuart Olson

When it comes to a construction project — whether residential, commercial, or industrial — you want assurance that you’ve hired one of the utmost experts to get the job done. In Canada, that is Stuart Olson, and its recent merger partner, Bird Construction.

An Industry Leader…For over a hundred years, Stuart Olson and Bird Construction have been among Canada’s topmost full-service contractors.

With headquarters in both Calgary and Mississauga, Bird Construction and Stuart Olson serve businesses and communities from the Atlantic to Pacific coast.Stuart-Olson-Pendergast

“[Stuart Olson delivers] full service from the conceptual phase, through to handing over the keys at the end of the project,” said Rick Andison, Project Director.

As a nation-wide leader providing a comprehensive range of construction services, Stuart Olson can take on just about any project you might have. Some of Stuart Olson’s successes include The Richmond Oval, in British Columbia, Calgary’s Central Library, in Alberta, RBC Convention Centre in Manitoba, an array of Post-Secondary builds in Ontario including facilities at McMaster University, University of Toronto Mississauga, and Windsor University, to name a few. They also have a large presence in the Industrial Infrastructure space, covering maintenance, repair, and operations; and have a proven track record delivering agriculture, food processing, and cold storage facilities.

In 2020, Stuart Olson joined forces with Bird Construction, merging to create one forward-thinking, premier Canadian construction company. Although the integration of the two bodies is still in process, the collaboration between them is proving to spark innovation already. Take, for example, their mutual hashtag #OurBestBuildYet. Not only does this reflect their shared values of making each project a specialized representation of their abilities, but it has brought a lot of media coverage to the good work Stuart Olson and Bird Construction do every day, a lot of which falls outside the realm of what you might usually associate with a contractor.

Stuart Olson and Bird Construction are committed to being innovators. Stuart Olson has a Centre for Building Performance, dedicated to energy efficiency, tracking, analytics and insights; and Bird Construction has consistently prioritized and promoted collaboration among Indigenous communities across Canada. Together, they are working toward contributing to positive advances in the industry.

Looking towards the future, Stuart Olson knows that change is inevitable in any industry, including construction, and they plan to continue providing long-term value for clients, through flexible, innovative, and forward thinking solutions.

“There’s nothing we won’t look at or haven’t looked at,” Andison said.

For more information about this great Canadian business, visit www.stuartolson.com or www.bird.ca