Sentences with phrase «setting targets»

This self assessment allows students to critically think about their own work, setting targets for future assessments.

In his book «Building Learning Power» Guy Claxton advocates setting targets for developing learners based around the 4Rs — resilience, resourcefulness, reflectiveness and reciprocity.

He advocates for setting targets with timeliness in order to stay the course in achieving your goals.

Dr Brunet is concerned that there has, so far, been no analysis of the potential harms in setting targets for diagnoses and fears that the «needs of patients are made secondary to the requirement to fulfil quotas.»

You need to apply the same structure to a speculative search, and a good way of doing this is by setting yourself some targets.

With the party backing the program, provincial governments dove in, setting targets for the number of recipients they would attract and starting competitive local programs like the Leading Talent award.

Conversely, striving for a harder mission could perpetually delay any meaningful exploration by setting targets too far out of reach.

The findings, published July 9 in The Lancet, come four years after the same group of researchers issued a call to action, laying out an ambitious plan to curtail HIV epidemics in gay men, setting targets for policy reform, funding and improvement in effective HIV prevention and treatment services, including expanded access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) which has been highly effective in dramatically reducing transmission among this population.

Two years after setting targets in Aichi, Japan, for saving global biodiversity, the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity has struck its first deal on how to pay for the goals.

Setting targets in this way allows emissions to grow while requiring industries to become more productive over time for a given level of emissions.

But «setting targets is better than not doing anything,» she says.

At a meeting in Vienna, Austria, this week, they will begin the task of setting targets and timetables for doing that.

Asked about the policy he said: «I'm not setting targets for specific numbers at particular points, what I'm giving you is the overall plan is how we will achieve the completion of Universal Credit.»

MPs suggested the government's predilection for setting targets means significant progress has been made only in relation to those infections with national reduction targets, such as MRSA bloodstream and C. diff.

While agreeing that there was nothing wrong in setting targets for military operations as was done by President Muhammadu Buhari when he gave the directive, the executive Secretary noted «It must also be stated that this target date might be unrealistic.

To deal with rising demand, governments have tried outsourcing, setting targets, increasing competition and choice, publishing league tables, using large - scale IT systems, and seeking economies of scale, to name but a few of the much - vaunted reforms.

Work is currently underway to review the Gothenburg Protocol which came into force in 2005, setting targets for reducing pollutants and emissions which were to be met by 2010.

THIS IS WHAT AN AMBITIOUS MANAGER (setting targets earlier before season ends) AND BOARD IS.

Setting targets and measuring food loss and waste are important.

By measuring food waste, setting targets and building action plans, organisations are able to manage food waste as they would other business critical processes.»

While the hedge fund made clear in its letter that it's thinking long - term with Nestle, setting targets on margins to reach by 2020, the first test could come sooner than that: Schneider has promised to reveal his strategy at an investor day in September.

«The campus» short - term goal is to achieve the Governor's «Greening of the State Government» executive order, setting targets for energy and water reductions, attaining zero waste and reducing petroleum consumption.

For most individuals and institutions, it's a wise idea to basically control the amount of risk in the overall portfolio by setting targets for the percentage of your portfolio that you would want in equities, in debt securities or bonds, and in cash, certificates of deposit, Treasury notes and Treasury bills.»

This could include setting targets for nominal GDP growth rather than inflation, investing in a wider range of risk assets, making plans to allow base rates to turn negative, and underscoring the importance of avoiding a new recession.

«That's because men were setting targets that were not achievable.

U.S. companies are still among the most ambitious in setting targets to combat global warming despite President Donald Trump's plans to quit the 195 - nation Paris climate agreement, a 2017 survey showed on Tuesday.

«Setting the targets is a little hard to do in a young company, because there is no long - term historical trend you can refer to,» says Jeffrey Wojcik, who was part of the team that designed the goals and who may not receive a bonus this year.

To do that, managers should outline employees» path forward by setting targets and offering guidance.

Even if a workplace has all of the positive variables you have outlined — the right tools, excellent training, support from their boss, setting targets with rewards and the company has a high staff morale; if you have an employee with poor emotional intelligence, this can really impact the wider team.

It allows you to set a target for how much weight you want to lose and how quickly you want to lose it, then offers suggestions based on those goals.

The organization has set itself the target of sourcing 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources of energy by the year 2025.

Worse, they set no targets for carbon emissions reductions.

Ruchi Soya could give Patanjali a big leg - up as its ambitious evangelist co-founder Ramdev has set a target to dominate the Indian FMCG market.

Each quarter Borne sets a target gross - profit percentage for his manufacturing staffers.

(This year most divisions have set targets for operating income and at least one other figure.)

BEIJING, March 5 - China on Monday unveiled its largest rise in defence spending in three years, setting a target of 8.1 percent growth over 2017, fuelling an ambitious military modernisation programme amid rising concerns over its security.

BEIJING, March 5 - China on Monday unveiled its largest rise in defense spending in three years, setting a target of 8.1 percent growth over 2017, fueling an ambitious military modernisation program amid rising concerns over its security.

On Oct. 23, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney will set his target for the overnight interest rate.

With the rise of the Law of Attraction / positive thinking movement and the pressure to set high, difficult to reach goals, leaders can easily set targets that are based on little more than blind hope.

Neil Blumenthal hopes the next class of change - making innovators set their targets on fixing government.

In 2007 the Government set a target to build 2 million houses before 2016, but the economic crisis made this plan impossible to deliver.

Silverberg set a target of $ 9,500, which he felt was the minimum amount needed to print 1,000 hardcover, 32 - page picture books.

But a review of company policies indicates that only 13 % have set targets for female representation.

Begin with a team meeting that sets targets and objectives.

In its recently published rulemaking agenda, the SEC set a target date of October 2015 to adopt final rules regarding the offer and sale of securities through crowdfunding and small and additional issues exemptions under Regulation A +.

For instance, an initiative known as «should - cost» has effectively driven down the high price of many programs by requiring managers to determine what a given program or piece of a program should cost and then set targets for fitting the program into its cost paradigm.

Chances are that business hasn't been as good as managers expected when they set their targets.

So setting a target for, say, 10,000 Twitter followers is not a goal in itself, though it can be a good benchmark for whether the campaign is working.»

Of the companies surveyed for the study, fewer than 35 percent were striving for set targets on gender breakdown of hiring and promotions.

«Measure what's difficult to measure, and set targets.