O’Brien Insurance in Glens Falls is offering free road safety yard signs to local residents.
The signs say “Drive Like Your Kids Live Here” and are intended to reduce unsafe driving behaviors on busy streets and in neighborhoods where there are children. As spring continues and with summer right around the corner, children will begin playing outside more.
Business Report: No Surprises During Period Of Transition
By Leslie Kendall
Change is one of the few constants in today’s workplace. In order to engage in successful transition, it is imperative for an organization to develop and implement a clear plan of action. All of your stakeholders, especially employees, will respond best to transition when they know what to expect and how they will be impacted.
I am convinced that long-range planning is the best approach to successfully implementing any type of organizational change. Planning will increase employees’ understanding of the reasons for change and reduce potential resistance by including them as collaborative partners in the process.
There are proven strategies that businesses, non-profit groups, and government agencies can follow to invoke change effectively in their organizations. Here are some tips:
First, it is essential to involve everyone in the change process and schedule, allowing ample time for input. People need different amounts of time to react to change in the workplace and to assess how it may affect their personal lives.
Business Report: Lifelong Learning
By Michael Cruz
We all need to constantly improve. My mantra is: Whatever it is that got you where you are, is not enough to keep you there.
I have been involved with an organization called BNI for more than a dozen years. BNI helps its members grow their business. Lifelong learning is one of its core values. Wiki defines lifelong learning as the ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons.
You keep on learning. But, do you help your team pursue continued learning?
During their appraisal process you should identify places where a member of your team can improve their skills. Most people value learning activity higher than raises. This comes in the form of product or technical knowledge. Yet it should include skills that prepare them for the next role they can pursue within your company.
As leaders, we owe it to our people, and ourselves, to help our personnel develop skills. So, act as a leader. Identify a skill, select appropriate training opportunities and pay for it. You pay for it in two ways. One with dollars, then with time to train. And, most important, with discussion and reinforcement of what they learned.
Michelle Krasny Coaching Helps People Craft Career Goals, Focus In On Obtaining Them
By Susan E. Campbell
Michelle Krasny started a career coaching business to help people achieve more quickly what it took her a decade to do: love their job.
“I was studying neuroscience and behavior and was on course for a medical degree and Ph.D.,” said Krasny. “But I was just a tiny human who didn’t know what I wanted.”
AJA Architecture Works With Good Mix Of Local, Regional And National Projects
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By Jennifer Farnsworth
This is a corrected version from 5/15/2019
Michael Murray can be found at AJA Architecture in Glens Falls. He is responsible for the business development at the architectural firm.
Murray has an architecture degree from New York Institute of Technology and has worked on the technology-side of the business for several architecture firms for most of his career. At some point, he said he realized he was more of a “computer geek” than an architectural designer. He started as a CAD (computer-aided design) manager for an architecture firm in Colorado, and that lead him to the field of technology consulting.
“I led a team of talented technical people and helped those architecture firms become more effective with their use of technology, allowing them to be much more efficient, and more productive,” he said. “It was very rewarding work, but I was also working way too much. Lots of long hours eventually had me burned out on the technology.”
Murray eventually found himself working as marketing consultant where he assisted architecture firms with their marketing needs.
“The pace of consulting worked much better for me, still very rewarding work, but not nearly as many long hour days,” said Murray.
Developer Erects One Building, Plans Another; Both Will Sell Food When Finished
Courtesy Baldwin Masonry
By Jill Nagy
A new building just completed at Route 149 and Ridge Road in Queensbury will be a fruit and vegetable market called Farm to Market, but not until next year.
Meanwhile the owner/builder, Dale Baldwin of Baldwin Masonry in Fort Ann, already has plans to put up another building with a rustic look next door on the an adjacent lot.
While the outside work on the first was completed about a month ago, the inside work will wait for winter, according to Baldwin.
The design resembles an
As Queensbury Hotel Renovations Draw To Close, Fenimore’s Pub Will Undergo Work
Courtesy Queensbury Hotel
The Fenimore’s Pub at the Queensbury Hotel, a gastro-pub style restaurant, will undergo renovations this summer with work beginning in July.
Phinney Design Group of Saratoga Springs, who has been involved in many of the property’s renovation projects since 2016, will lead the re-design. Ownership anticipates the project will take about six weeks, during which the pub will be closed.
Moreau Will Be The Site Of New Warehouse Space For Expanding Saratoga Business
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By Christine Graf
A Saratoga Springs business is expanding and will establish a warehouse in Moreau.
Saratoga Olive Oil has purchased a 7,200-square-foot warehouse facility at 1341 Saratoga Road in Moreau, just a short distance off Northway Exit 17 of the Northway.
Owners, Clint, Barbara and Chad Braidwood purchased the property from real estate holding company Jabro Development LLC. Prior to being purchased, the building was used for boat storage. At one time, it was occupied by Aquawood, a pool, spa and billiards supplier.
Grey Ghost Bicycles Plans To Move Into New Location On Lawrence Street By June
By Christine Graf
Cousins Paul and Dan Fronhofer, owners of Grey Ghost Bicycles, hope to relocate their Glens Falls bike shop to Lawrence Street by early June.
The shop, currently located in a leased space on Glen Street, will be moved to the former Post Star advertising office building. The men purchased the two-story, 10,000-square-foot building from Elizabeth Miller, owner of Miller Mechanical, in February.
Glens Falls Hospital Adds Second MRI, Providing For Improved Patient Access
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Glens Falls Hospital has added a second Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system on its main campus, providing improved access to this important diagnostic service, particularly for people in need of outpatient testing.
The MRI system, conveniently located in the Pruyn Pavilion at Glens Falls Hospital, will be primarily used for outpatient care. Appointments are now available for the ‘MRI at Pruyn’.