Sentences with phrase «around the conference table»

If your team consists of only two or three people, you really don't have to sit around a conference table for every meeting.

A couple of weeks later, 12 people — eight men, four women — sat around a conference table with a moderator, while Carl, our editor, and I looked on from the other side of a two - way mirror.

At the April 17 meeting, about 25 employees sat around a conference table while others joined by video from New York, Dublin, Mexico City, Washington and elsewhere.

In her book, she references a meeting at Facebook with then - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner where the men were seated around a conference table and the women sat in chairs off to the side.

Unlike when employees sit around a conference table, and space is clearly segregated, standing created a shared working space.

Few, however, reconsider the way typical meetings are physically structured, i.e. with employees seated around a conference table.

Why meet around a conference table when you can go for a walk?

«If possible, don't put people around the conference table,» Littman said.

Sitting around his conference table just days before their merger finally closed, in mid-October, Watts agrees.

Not all conversations at work take place around a conference table — nor should they.

Why companies are getting serious about reducing the time people spend sitting around the conference table.

«Warning: the book is graphic and rough, these are not people in suits sipping green tea around a conference table.»

His words fell like cleansing rain and adjournment soon followed, in time for the men to experience what most would remember better than any exchange around the conference table.

Last Friday, Black had gathered his pitchers around a conference table adjacent to the clubhouse to review the San Francisco hitters.

The group sat quietly around the conference table, checking election coverage on their phones.

«Basically everyone thinks they should be a consultant, giving thoughtful advice and sitting around a conference table.

Mr Laws says of the talks with the Tories: «We sat around a conference table surveying each other with the surprise of people who had known each other for years and suddenly found themselves at the altar, having never quite seen the possibility.»

But it was clear late on Thursday, with the parties and the judge seated around a conference table and the jury not present, that Mr. McDonald and Mr. Kry had critical roles as legal specialists in the case — «the law guys,» as several experts put it — a role the public rarely hears about.

OXFORD, U.K. — Behind locked doors in one of the oldest libraries in Europe, two dozen scholars mill around a conference table where rare medieval manuscripts perch on lecterns, illuminated by natural light streaming in from floor - to - ceiling windows.

A good chunk of the season is devoted to vampires — creatures who can, in the «True Blood» - verse, run like The Flash, fly, and fuck like pornstars — sitting around a conference table debating politics and religion, and the other «super» groups don't exactly pick up the slack, what with the werewolves holding auditions for a new pack leader and the faes throwing slumber parties with their new BFF, Sookie.

There's a scene in which Hoffman, Moore and Jeffrey Wright (returning as gadget guru Beetee) are sitting around a conference table in the District 13 war room, strategizing with Lawrence as Katniss, which feels way more substantive than it might through the sheer presence of these performers.

It's usually a bunch of marketing people sitting around a conference table tackling the target date project, but these folks usually don't know much about investment management.

Lawyers would sit around conference tables, often on weekend days, to review the status of cases.

So a little more than 10 years ago, Jenkins instituted the technique of collaborative divorce within her practice, which tackles divorce outside of the courts so that agreements can be reached around a conference table and thus be resolved with more dignity and respect.

Not exact matches

Sitting around a long conference table, the players intently watched a presentation teaching them important lessons for their future — networking, resumé - building, formulating an elevator pitch.

Photos of everyone on the call appear around a virtual conference table.

The fund's top players sit around a white conference table, armed with Apple laptops and pastel - colored cans of La Croix.

Roughly two - dozen programmers are gathered around a long conference table inside Gates Hall (as in Bill and Melinda), the brand - new, steel - plated home to Cornell's computing and information science departments.

In one lecture room, Wendall Wade stands before 17 engine disassemblers sitting expectantly around two long conference tables.

After a busy weekend at the Food and Wine Conference with my family, it felt so good to come home and spend some time around the family table inspired by all the great food we had enjoyed all weekend.

Even though the club has only picked up just one win in the last five matches, the Western Conference has been a tough table this time around with none of the teams showing a lot of dominance.

We sat around a huge table together ala conference style.

But Johnson made clear in his speech to the Tory conference this week that the prime minister should go further and place the free movement of people around the EU on the negotiating table.

But he used his Tory conference speech to say that the prime minister should go further and place the free movement of people around the EU on the negotiating table.

The large conference room dwarfed the small group as they gathered around a swanky table that seemed intended for a board or partner meeting.

I can almost see Time's editors sitting around the conference room table in their crisp shirts — frozen by the possibility of offending subscribers in red states or blue states, or both — finally throwing up their hands and turning the whole conundrum on its head: If these pesky Internet - blogging readers are going to give us hell no matter who we choose, why not just choose them?

Tables scattered around the conference room had brightly - colored signs for each of the eight finalists.

In a building flanked by military guards, systems scientists from CALSSE sit around a large conference table, explaining to Science the complex diagrams behind their studies on controlling systems.

On media - center couches and at conference - room tables, downing Cokes and sipping coffee together, teachers around the country are cracking open books to get better at what they do — and, often, relishing the experience.

The conference opened with a policy forum which included influential speeches from the most significant representatives of the conference; the second day passed around the theme «Participation for Protection», using panels and round tables as a way to share knowledge and to engage in constructive debates.

Whether in a hotel suite seated around a coffee table or in a conference room with all coaches present, a bird's - eye view reveals collaboration.

When I hear the word strategy, I think of people sitting around a long table, in a large conference room, with a whiteboard full of scribbles, arrows, and numbers.

The number one issue brought up at parent - teacher conferences, tutoring centers and even around the dinner table is this: what are you going to do about your essay writing?

After a long day at E3, we gather around the table to comment on Nintendo's press conference and first impressions of the new games and 3DS system...

You can get a conference room and push the chairs back and walk slowly around the table while you meet.

Lawyers assembled conference - style tables in restaurants and gathered around electrical outlets with their laptops awaiting work.

A group of professionals focused on innovation in law firms were sitting around a table at a recent conference in London when one wryly remarked, «Partnership votes?

He strongly felt that divorce did not belong in the court system: decisions about where children should sleep at night should be made by the parents, and discussions of financial issues should happen around a private conference room table rather than in a public courtroom.

This noble creature, a heroic arbiter possessed of powers to sense the «quality» and «value» of legal services, has attained an exalted status at conferences, around tables, behind lecterns and upon podia the length and breadth of the land.

In messing around with it — putting the console on one end of the conference table, and inching away from it slowly on the other side — it seems like the cord will be more comfortable at a desk or table, but still might be too short to sit under a TV.