Sentences with phrase «adoption of best practices»

The goal of section three is bringing in the Vermont Real Estate Commission's disciplinary cases to make licensees aware of the nature of complaints with a focus on adoption of best practices to void common pitfalls.

Professional Experience Boston Scientific Corporation (St. Paul, MN) 2005 — Present Director, Manufacturing Information Systems • Direct cross-functional teams on development and support projects valued in excess of $ 32 million • Responsible for the implementation of manufacturing execution systems world - wide • Hire, train, supervise, and review project management team ensuring efficient and effective operations • Set and strictly enforce departmental budgets, workflows, action plan, and project deadlines • Develop and implement new technologies, systems, and processes to streamline manufacturing operations • Build and strengthen strategic relationships with business partners, contractors, and industry leaders • Launch enterprise - wide asset management (EAM) system in three countries and four manufacturing plants • Develop long range strategic plan for key manufacturing systems including Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) • Work in both matrix and functional environments and facilitate continuous improvement and adoption of best practices • Launch and maintain effective engagement and process alignment strategy among international customers • Successfully design and launch IS - wide employee training and development program • Design and implement 24 × 7 information technology help desk for manufacturing applications • Serve as director of the University of Minnesota intern recruitment program • Consistently recognized and promoted for excellence in project and personnel management

In addition to fulfilling typical responsibilities of this role, I am able to collaborate with international partners to ensure consistency of information and adoption of best practices worldwide.

Since the Report's publication, the Pennsylvania Innocence Project has been working directly with law enforcement agencies to encourage the adoption of best practices in eyewitness identification procedures and recording of suspect interrogations.

IRDiRC Committees and Task Forces will deliver a series of recommendations for policies and standards, tools and infrastructure development, and adoption of best practices in response to the needs of the rare disease community.

«The identification and adoption of best practices in electoral framework and administration have placed countries under pressure to introduce electoral reform measures.

Enhanced wine quality is another benefit of the industry's adoption of best practices — such as drip irrigation, canopy management, knowledge of wine quality and viticultural improvements — from the Code Workbook.

The CCBE's Board Shareholder Confidence Index (BSCI) is a measurement of a board's adoption of best practices in board effectiveness and transparent communication.

«Kerry Agribusiness is proud of its strong dairy heritage and through ongoing engagement with our milk suppliers will ensure the adoption of best practice initiatives, to support our grass - based, sustainable and premium - grade milk production and in doing so secure the viability of present and future generations.»

Automation — Too many aspects of data management and curation involve manual intervention, and this «constitutes a significant barrier against wider adoption of good practice.»

If each teacher or school tried to evolve and improve in isolation, we would never achieve the gains needed, because there would be no systemic learning or adoption of best practice.

Not exact matches

Since the early 2000s, splitting the Chair / CEO roles has become the norm in Canada, and with good reason: more than any other individual governance best practice, Chair / CEO split with an independent chair is highly correlated with adoption of other good governance practices and disclosure.

So do the increase in the mobility of saving and investment; the increase in the desired exposure to foreign assets (the reduction in home bias); the financial market innovation that allows for better diversification and risk sharing; and the differentials in the pace of technology adoption or workplace practices that give rise to varying productivity trends across countries.

Because the CNGC already regularly analyzes whether our incentive compensation programs provide proper incentives to our NEOs to achieve our Company's strategic priorities (including ROI) and because our shareholders already receive annual reports on those matters in the CD&A s in our annual proxy statements, we believe the adoption of the policy requested by the proposal is unnecessary, duplicative of practices already followed by the CNGC and our Company, and would result in an expenditure of Walmart's resources and our management's and directors» time that ultimately would not be in our shareholders» best interests.

We've been working closely with our partners and exchanges to improve security protocols by utilizing NEM's built - in security features and adoption of industry standard best practices to help protect against future attacks.

UTZ farmers» greater adoption of good agricultural practices meant in spite of external factors effecting yields, UTZ farmers» yields dropped by just 1 % by year 4 compared to a 52 % drop by non-certified farmers.

This should enable the adoption of better farming practices more quickly as well as continuous improvement in the production and sale of key commodities.»

«Through sustainability we are promoting the adoption of good winegrowing practices that deliver beneficial outcomes for business profitability, the environment and our communities, and peer - to - peer exchange of information has proven to be an effective way for growers and vintners to learn about these practices,» said Allison Jordan, executive director of the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance.

However, with such a broad and diverse stakeholder base, a challenge lies before us: How can we drive wide - scale adoption of sustainable best practices?

The project will involve conducting interviews of 100 growers to explore the motivations for adopting sustainable practices as well as perceived benefits, barriers and incentives to adoption.

In addition, CSWA released its 2009 Wine Community Sustainability Report measuring the California wine industry's adoption over five years of 227 best management practices from the Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Practices Self - Assessment Workbook.

This should enable the adoption of better farming practices more quickly as well as continuous improvement in the production and sale of key commodities [such as coffee, cocoa, tea, and bananas].

Throughout her career, Dr. Bliss has been passionate about educating the public on best practices in adoption and the psychology of open adoption.

The effect of these kinds of supports on home visitors has not been well studied, but some research on similar interventions indicates implementation of evidence - based practices with fidelity monitoring and supportive consultation predicts lower rates of staff turnover, as well as lower levels of staff emotional exhaustion relative to services as usual.29, 30,31 Moreover, a supportive organizational climate has been associated with more positive attitudes toward adoption of evidence - based programs.32

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

With the launch of TruAdopt, we are committed to employing best practices in each case to facilitate adoptions that are child - centered, both legally and ethically sound and fully supportive of placing parents.»

The work group shall examine best practices in Vermont and other states, including strategies to spread the adoption of workplace policies and practices that support breastfeeding for mothers.

I can't even trace the origin of that idea or inspiration in my life; we didn't know any adoptive families, nor was adoption a very well known practice back then.

With that in mind, every day starting today we'll be posting some of the tips that adoptive parents, birth parents and adoption professionals have shared with us over the years about open adoption best practices.

Professor John Loughhead from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) said: «The full adoption of the recommendations made in the review by the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering on safe practice, and its own independent review of seismic risk mitigation, shows it has taken the best technical advice to establish safe regulation and processes.

«Given the differences we observed within industries and across provinces in China, many opportunities would involve creating incentives to promote the adoption of Chinese best practices.»

«Minor changes made in the corral and the adoption of good handling practices reduced agitation during restraint in the squeeze chute, the time spent for blood collection, and cortisol release,» says Lima.

The authors argue that cities need to step out of traditional roles in planning urban infrastructure and learn how to better understand the needs of residents in order to craft policies and programs that enable the adoption of energy and carbon - efficient technologies and practices.

These were: well - being and welfare — insisting upon the adoption of well - being policies in all education settings; empowering and enabling — identifying the balance between empowering and overburdening staff; freedom and flexibility - reversing the trend for testing and increasingly structured curriculum frameworks and trust and train teachers to do their job with a focus on reflective practice; and celebrating success — making sure we all better celebrate the amazing experiences and achievements of teachers to help stem a current tendency for public pessimism.

EdTechReview spreads awareness on education technology and its role in 21st century education through best research and practices of using technology in education, and by facilitating events, training, professional development, and consultation in its adoption and implementation.

Together, we're learning what teachers get out of the course and how we can improve it to better support school - wide adoption of growth mindset practices.

We will build a cross-sector (district and charter) cohort of educators, regularly sharing their experiences (successes, as well as failures) in order to speed adoption of promising practices and transformative ideas.

After implementation and adoption we recognized the need to provide concrete examples of what each best practice would look like in practice.

More importantly, that research details that deeper learning (a) starts with intentional adoption of select best practices (b) works equally well to raise content achievement enabled by the four Cs, (c) develops sharper interpersonal skills (d) increases readiness for advanced study and sends more students off to rigorous colleges without crimping the possibilities to those blocked in traditional schools because of background or income.

But with great ideas proposed like a ranking system for self - published authors to help ensure best practices and a streamlined device system that makes buying ebooks ridiculously easy, one of the better ideas was the focus on greater adoption of bundling of ebooks with their print counterparts, proposed by BitLit's Peter Hudson.

Backed up by 9 years of deploying e-paper signs in the field with a success rate of 100 %, Visionect has helped define best industry practices, aware of one simple truth: as the electronic paper technology transitions into mass adoption, nothing beats experience.

Promote industry - wide adoption of electronic publishing through standards development, conferences, best practices, and demonstrations of proven technology.

It's also worth noting that the vast majority of authors fall short on best practices (witness the low adoption of ebook preorders, even though preorders are proven to sell more books, or witness the large number of self published authors who design amateur - looking cover images despite the dearth of low - cost professionals who for $ 200 or less can make their cover look amazing).

Although adoption of these good and best practices is encouraging, it is voluntary.

LifeLine strives to implement and recognize best adoption practices at all of our shelters.

Well, actually the «founders of No Kill» have always been a very select group whose love of all animals gradually but steadily led to the changing mindset and philosophy of saving rather than killing; not nearly enough credit has been given to all the independent and non-profit rescues, adoption groups and especially TNR groups who were promoting and practicing S / N and vaccinations long before low cost S / N clinics became available... such clinics still NOT that readily available in many jurisdictions; as for the veterinary community, for the most part, they were and are a major part of the problem along with their associations which remain regressive with their rather antiquated and self - serving leadership; for decades and even to this day it has long been known that the NUMBER ONE REASON people do not get their animals «fixed» (pet, stray, feral, it doesn't matter) is because of the lack of affordable S / N fees!

Funding from PetSmart Charities supports best practices that help pets thrive in a shelter environment until they find their forever family and offers funding for shelter - based programs that improve adoptions, reduce pets» length of stay and strengthen shelter infrastructure.

The Capital Area Animal Welfare Society (CAAWS) is a non-profit organization committed to the well - being of animals in the Baton Rouge community by providing for and facilitating the adoption of homeless animals, teaching the community responsible companion animal ownership and the humane treatment of animals, and at all times promoting the practice of spay / neuter.

Each student has chosen one open - admission agency and one adoption - guarantee agency where they will spend two weeks practicing Shelter Medicine with some of the best in the field.

Job Description: • Represents the Kansas City Pet Project in a professional, polite and enthusiastic manner • Assists the veterinarians on a daily basis with preparing surgery patients, health assessments, and treatments of animals • Assist in medical rounds with Shelter Veterinarians or identifying animals that need to be seen by a Shelter Veterinarian • Administer medications to both cats and dogs in accordance with veterinarian's prescribed doses and ensure all treatment protocols prescribed for sick / injured animals are performed timely, safely, and humanely • Responsible for following best practices for sanitation protocols in all veterinary clinic and isolation areas to reduce / eliminate disease transmission • Input all medical notes, health assessments, vaccinations, surgeries, treatments, etc., into PetPoint • Provides support for other departments, such as Intake, Foster, Placement & Transport, or Adoptions by assisting as needed for vaccinations, deworming, blood draws, etc. • Prepares and sanitizes surgical instruments / packs each day to ensure packs are ready for use the following day • Assists with discharging animals to the public post-surgery or following up with sick pet appointments, explaining any medical issues, medications, after care instructions, etc. • Ensures adequate medical supplies and medications are available and reports any shortages to Vet Clinic Manager • Enforces and maintain KCPP safety and cleanliness, and all health and security rules and procedures • Follows disease prevention procedures and completes cleaning of veterinary clinic areas daily and ongoing throughout the day to decrease biological risks to humans and other animals • Care, feed, and safely handle animals to avoid injury to persons / animals • Properly store and maintain inventory of medical supplies, including Schedule II narcotics • Performs laboratory analysis techniques to assist Shelter Veterinarians • Reads, understand, interpret, and apply department policies and procedures • Prepares reports and other written materials in a logical, concise, and accurate manner • Functions calmly in situations that require a high degree of sensitivity, tact, and diplomacy • Communicates effectively with a variety of individuals representing diverse cultures and backgrounds and function calmly in all situations which require a high degree of sensitivity, tact and diplomacy • Treats employees, representatives of outside agencies, volunteers, and members of the public with courtesy and respect • Provides prompt, efficient and responsive service for all phone calls forwarded to the Vet Clinic.