Sentences with phrase «good behavior if»

It's easy to reward good behavior if you focus on teaching your dog to do specific things you like.
Provide grants to induce good behavior if you like (à la Race to the Top and the Teacher Incentive Fund), but mostly get off the backs of America's schools.
Model Good Behavior If you want your child to live up to your expectations, you need to live up to them yourself.
Your pup may also have setbacks in housetraining and other good behaviors if there are changes to his routine.

Not exact matches

As Cialdini writes, «A well - known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason.
The study's bottom line seems to be that, sure, there is still plenty of sexism when it comes to women's behavior at the negotiating table, but if you're more interested at any given time in getting a good deal than challenging stereotypes, then flirting may be the way to go.
«Fear of confrontation is so overwhelming, but if you communicate boldly, more frequently, and honestly... and you're not afraid to work through conflict, you'll likely reduce your stress and be a better worker,» says Lynn Taylor, national workplace expert and author of Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant; How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job.
If there's something in it for your boss, you have the best chance of changing behavior.
If this is your company and you're caught in the middle of a minefield, your best option (short of quitting) for conflict management is to rise above it: Point out the specific behavior in question, don't personalize the issue (be objective), communicate assertively and state the facts, and document everything that goes on.
If the individual isn't willing to put out a killer effort to land the opportunity, the chances are that he or she isn't going to be on any better behavior once the person starts working with you full - time.
Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and the author of «Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job,» says you don't have to be best friends with your manager, «but you can achieve optimal creativity and success if you feel that you're liked, supported, and respected by them.»
If you've handled it well, then the desired behavior will begin to manifest in the coming days and weeks after your conversation.
«If it's a fixed set of rules, with players acting according to preexisting behaviors, then it becomes a sufficiently well - defined problems that you can optimize against and the machine will do better than people,» he says.
For example, Reed says that if the employee in question recently «made complaints of racial or gender discrimination, yet the behavior or performance problem does exist, it's a good idea to talk to an attorney about how you might approach that person.»
If you know that these problematic behaviors are indicative of later troubles from the beginning, you'll be able to manage them better.
If it takes more evidence to accept a change for the better in someone's character than it requires to believe someone has changed for the worse, then equivalent behaviors will warrant punishment while not qualifying for reward.
However, if Autopilot is truly as good as Musk claims — if driver safety actually improves when Tesla owners flip the switch — then this move to make the data public is critical for changing laws, behavior and the public's perception of what's safe and what isn't.
If you want more happiness and joy in your life than smiling is definitely a good start, since other things mentioned above require not just change in your behavior but also your mindset.
But given the stock market's recent erratic behavior and concerns about the impact a trade war could have on the economy, you may at least want to set aside some time to see where your retirement plans stand and how well they might hold up if the prospects for the market and the economy turn south.
A credit card reinforces the behavior that believes spending is good, and not that spending is bad, because if you are not spending then you are not getting your cash - back rewards.
If consumers have decided USA retail has too much physical retail space per capita (for every USA 100 sq - ft, Canada had 70, UK had 20, Germany had 10) and «physical» (ie: in - store) shopping is declining because consumer behavior is changing, how best to remove excess brick & mortar capacity?
If you think your insurance score may have improved because of the credit report changes — or recent good credit behavior — ask your insurer to reevaluate you.
If I am correct on the demand - supply attributes of the silver market, and equally correct in the historical behavior of silver relative to large speculator extremes (such as three weeks ago, when they were net short CME silver for the first time ever), then we have an excellent chance of seeing a trading opportunity not unlike the zinc trade of 2016 - 2017, where a senior such as Pan American Silver Corp. (PAAS: TSX; PAAS: NASDAQ) can perform like TECK did, and junior silver producers do even better.
The good news is that if you're concerned about whether people will download your stuff, the problem lies within your stuff, not the behavior of your prospect.
Just as one can usually distinguish, according to their purposes, a good from a bad saddle or a good from a bad cavalry officer, so too the judgment of good and bad in the ethical sense should be eminently adjudicable if moral behavior is goal - determined.
If a person is intellectually honest, inquisitive about the universe, ethical, kind, and compassionate, the person will arrive at a set of behaviors consistent with what we call «good».
If we have a pure heart (not something we can do on our own) then good things will flow out in our behavior.
And before you offer up the excuse the bible uses that... «Lot was too drunk to know better»... ask yourself if that excuse would fly today in a court of law, if not, don't use it here to justify his behavior, and god does not punish him so your god must be ok with drunken incest.
Those who had an ends - justify - the - means mindset were likelier to be stingier with others if they were reminded of their past good deeds and more generous if they recalled past unethical behavior.
It turned out that much of their behavior could be better interpreted if one brought to bear another category developed in the substantialist context.
The thing that's so insidious is that this «poisons the well» on another person by innuendo or outright labeling, especially if someone's behavior under stress * seems * to support the conclusion pronounced against them.
So often, it seems that such is the presentation of the Good News — if you will conform outwardly to this shape, this liturgy, this behavior... then... you will have eternal life.
God isn't the one who has or needs taming is the people who are in need of taming by God... and the weather could very well be the reaction of the behavior of people's deeds... so yea God gets uncomfortable and can cause disaster if he want to show a sign or tame the people...
What if instead of naming people according to their worst behaviors and features, we named them according to their best and most God - reflecting ones?
Well if everything a process, why is it not a process to act out wrong but its a process to act out in right behavior?
In the balance of good and bad behavior, humans tend toward the good, even if only slightly.
The notable change in behavior that has taken place over the past thirty years would not be of such great significance if it were not accompanied as well by a change in the way people think about sexual relations.
A good person is someone who makes an effort not to unjustly harm others, and correct their behavior in the future if they fail.
It's topics like this that a lot of thorough study of original context of the original documents are required, because there are lots of verses that suggest faith alone is required for salvation and others that suggest that faith plus consistent good behavior are required and the bible can't contradict itself if it's inspired by God.
I have the right to freedom of speech I have the privalage to drive if I have good behavior, these are not the same thing.
He may be an intellectualist who believes that incorrect behavior by itself prevents the achievement of the First Good; if so, he can now disagree intelligibly with his dissenting Traditionalist brother who supposes that the self does its perfecting work by obtending — that is, by moving the persona to seek right answers as best it can, given its particular resources and circumstances.
So if you find my beliefs wrong — then atleast know I am doing my best to keep distance from those that feel they are religious and devout — but their behavior, words and action > speak different.
If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?
If you only believe whatever it is that you feel like believeing, whatever «feels right» — then your beliefs no longer have the ability to change your behavior — and changing behavior is a good thing for your self and society when those changes are positive.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temparate, sober - minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?)
The law is good and is used lawfully when it is used to name behaviors that are out of hannony with the gospel, even if it is unpleasant to hear.
There must be a prior change of values that can then be enforced politically.20 Advanced technologies may offer hope for survival in principle but can do so in fact only if certain changes in morality and political behavior take place as well.
If the scales of reward and punishment for good and bad behavior were not balanced here on earth, they would be balanced — the preachers would tell you — beyond the grave in the heavenly places or in the fiery pits of hell.
it makes me sick hearing self rightous people talk about if your the most trustworthy and good behavior.
If both of these views and behaviors by Christians towards Israel is to Israel's benefit that is good.
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