Sentences with phrase «assessing performance results»

Additionally, I believe consideration should be given to both components — income and capital appreciation — when assessing performance results.

Not exact matches

Performance assesses criteria such as return on capital and shareholder return to determine which leaders are generating the best financial results.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

«We believe that adjusted EBITDA is an important measure of our operating performance because it allows management, investors and analysts to evaluate and assess our core operating results after removing the impact of changes in our capital structure, income - tax status and method of vehicle financing, and other items of a nonoperational nature that affect comparability,» Zipcar said in its most recent filing.

The Company believes Adjusted EPS provides important comparability of underlying operating results, allowing investors and management to assess operating performance on a consistent basis.

The results show that overall, green buildings have statistically higher employee job satisfaction, higher employee engagement and organizational commitment, and higher management - assessed performance.

The result of the task force was the development of two practical tools: The Guide for Assessing Equivalence of Standards and Technical Regulations (EquiTool) and the International Requirements for Organic Certification Bodies (IROCB) which can be used by any government or private sector organic label scheme for recognizing other organic standards and certification performance requirements as equivalent to their own.

So can we not look at this as a big improvement rather than seeing it as just another failure» -------------------- So let me get this clear, we no longer assess ourselves on results, but on performances?

It's my job as a coach to carefully assess the specific needs, and implement protocols that will aid in the prevention of these injuries as well as result in performance gains.

In this phase it's important to assess the demands of your athletes» sport (movement patterns, speed, power and fatigue) when it comes to training the qualities that will result in optimal performance transfer from the gym.

Dean should be objectively independently assessed on last nights performance with the results properly audited and then made public through the various news media.

«While Lisfranc injuries have a reputation for resulting in poor player performance in the NFL, our study is the first to fully assess their career impact, including effect on athletic performance following return to competition,» said lead author Kevin J. McHale, MD, a fifth - year orthopedic resident at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Results show that in comparison to women who experienced menopause after the age of 50, those with a premature menopause had a more than 40 % increased risk of poor performance on tasks assessing verbal fluency and visual memory and was associated with a 35 % increased risk of decline in psychomotor speed (coordination between the brain and the muscles that brings about movement) and overall cognitive function over 7 years.

In the coming weeks we will evaluate all learnings from this unprecedented hurricane and the resulting flooding, to assess if there are additional procedures and process safety efforts that could further inform and enhance the safety performance of our operations in the future.

The results of the examinations will be used by the government to assess school performance, however, ministers have maintained pupils sitting the exams should not be made to feel like failures.

In addition to regularly assessing student performance, Sherman Oaks utilizes a tool (the California Standards for the Teaching Profession) to help teachers self - assess their own growth over the course of a year as a result of the school's staff development efforts.

«Kemple's work examining high school reform efforts and assessing performance trends in New York City led to the design of rigorous impact evaluations, the results of which help city leaders better serve students and families by more meaningfully assessing school and student performance, effectively allocating resources, and identifying both positive trends and areas for improvement in schools.»

«All the kids got a printout and got to see the results of their reading and writing assessed by their peers in an authentic writing performance.»

The results will be used by the Government to assess school performance and ministers insist pupils shouldn't be made feel like failures when taking the exams.

States participating in Title I are required to meet a variety of requirements for assessing the achievement levels of public school students, reporting results of achievement tests to parents and the public, and taking actions intended to improve the performance of schools where achievement results are deemed inadequate.

Unlike today's critics of Wells Fargo, yesterday's commentators on Atlanta didn't consider the possibility that top managers could assess whether set performance goals needed to be adjusted, whether reasonable security measures would prevent cooking the books, and whether claimed results were real.

Teachers being evaluated (partially) using results from tests that may or may not accurately assess student performance

Should New Jersey hold off completely from using PARCC results to assess student growth and teacher performance until 2019?

The FSAA — Performance Task (FSAA — PT) is designed to assess students at three levels of complexity and results are reported through achievement levels.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

The Improving America's Schools Act — the 1994 reauthorization of ESEA — required states to assess the reading and mathematics performance of all students, including students with disabilities and English language learners, and report disaggregated results.

At grade 12, the national sample of schools and students is drawn from across the country, and results from the assessed students are combined to provide accurate estimates of the overall performance of twelfth - graders in the nation.

This bias results from the context in which they are assessed — from psychological threats in common academic environments, which depress the performances of people targeted by negative intellectual stereotypes.

While educators and policymakers agree that multiple measures over multiple years are the best way to gauge student, school, and district performance, the first - year SBAC results provide an important baseline for assessing implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs).

In Data - Driven High School Reform, Lachat writes, «Putting student learning at the center of school accountability requires the capacity to assess and use data to monitor student performance and to evaluate the extent to which new structures and approaches to curriculum, instruction and assessment result in higher levels of achievement» (2001).

So it's fairer to assess DC's performance against another set of NAEP scores that compares large urban school districts to one another — although those scores include results only from DC Public Schools, not the charter sector.

The scores were derived by assessing school performance within categories including GCSE results and attendance.

Progress monitoring is used in conjunction with universal screening in an MTSS model (or by anyone who is interested in improving learning results for children) to set goals for a student's learning growth, quickly and frequently assess a student's academic performance, measure his / her rate of improvement, and to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction.

For use by school divisions in assessing efforts for achieving the desired results in the State Performance Plan.

Our results thus provided suggestive evidence that the strength of the relationship between teachers» classroom observation scores and their students» test performance may in part be attributable to the sensitivity of the skills assessed during observation to those assessed on the test.

Calculating BMDEV for the 3500 or so existing funds during that period, ranking them by decile within peer group, and then assessing subsequent bear market performance provides an encouraging result... funds with the lowest bear market deviation (BMDEV) well out - performed funds with the highest bear market deviation, as depicted below.

Assess your financial advisor's performance, both in terms of the results of your investments, and the level of service you receive.

Your natural ability to use numbers to inform decision making, and assess results, will mean you'll love to test different solutions in - market and monitor performance.

Performance is assessed based on precipitation extremes indices and results from a generalized extreme value analysis applied to annual precipitation maxima.

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Efficient and effective management involves overseeing such matters as the day - to - day activities of the accounting staff; advising on the firm's capital requirements, and annual budget and fee policies; assessing the results against the budget; developing fee policies for various practice areas; determining controls over billing performance including profitability; unbilled time and costs, receivables, delinquencies and write - offs.

Results for a device called the «Motorola Shamu,» a code name that's previously been linked to the rumored upcoming Nexus, turned up on Geekbench, a test that assesses a device's general processor and memory performance.

Performance Profile Results - driven Child and Youth Worker with over 12 years» track record of success assessing young people's needs in terms of health, fitness, education and relationships, with special focus on providing interventions in drug and alcohol abuse issues.

Assessed performance of, wrote performance appraisals for, and presented those appraisals to assigned software developers resulting in a proficient software development team.

In this example, the Challenge was the student's at - risk academic performance, the Action was assessing and diagnosing the student with dyslexia, and the Result was improved student performance due to proper support and intervention.

Core competencies include the keen ability to assess key business issues and objectives and propose complete solutions resulting in improved service, organizational effectiveness and financial performance.

«Until the study on Facebook and job performance is published, it is difficult to assess how defensible the study would be if a lawsuit were filed by a job applicant as a result of a «failure to hire» because of the use of Facebook for employment screening.»

In addition to this I am also involved in assessing student performance and recording academic results in appropriate databases.

IT Project Manager — Professional Highlights Serve multinational corporations in a variety of technology based strategic planning and administration roles Offer expertise as a consultant, programmer, engineer, business analyst, and database administrator Lead technology projects for NASA, U.S. Customs, American Express, and General Electric Design and implement reporting, customer service, marketing, sales, and financial management software Responsible for network and database design, administration, and security Oversee enterprise - wide hardware and software upgrades resulting in increased efficiency Minimize operational and manpower costs through effective technology solutions Serve as forecast budget analyst for Joint Project Management Operations at Kennedy Space Center Develop reporting application tool using crystal reports engine on CD throughout Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Station resulting in $ 500,000 savings on user licensing fees Create detailed project plan with well - defined tasks, milestones, client sign - offs, test cycles, and specifications which served to communicate project progress to management Develop visual basic application for financial banking Institution using crystal reports to reduce the company's response time resulting in initial reporting from 2 - 3 hours to just 45 seconds Oversee multimillion - dollar software implementation for Miami Air from a consultancy level Upgrade Great Plains software platform and administered security access for Miami internal databases Write over 200 SQL stored procedures from access databases for financial institutions Compose business correspondence and prepared statistical spreadsheet analysis for Kennedy Space Center Recognized by colleagues and superiors for outstanding job performance, reliability, and efficiency Conduct surveys of operations to assess needs and identify high priority improvements Complete major product releases meeting very aggressive schedules and budgets Serve as a member of the International Cyber Threat Task Force Utilize fluencies in English, Portuguese, Arabic, French, and German to communicate with a diverse clientele Continually study emerging technologies and industry best practices Perform all duties with positivity, professionalism, and integrity

Financial Manager — Duties & Responsibilities Manage daily operations, sales, and customer service activities for multiple financial institutions Oversee company expansion and branch openings in new markets and territories Manage client assets in excess of $ 285 million across a wide range of investment vehicles Design and implement professional development and employee recognition programs Consistently meet or exceed sales goals through networking, cold calling, and other tactics Represent company brand with poise, integrity, and positivity Develop a rapport with customers and orient them to various products and services Encourage high customer retention by maintaining friendly, supportive contact with existing clients Study internal literature to become an expert on products and services Conduct research on prospective leads and existing clients to assist in developing sales strategies Craft effective sales presentations and proposals, tailoring them to clients based on their specific needs and styles Negotiate and execute contracts with C - Level decision makers Maintain records of site visits to potential and existing clients to assist in assessing their future needs Collaborate with junior level sales people to develop action plans to govern their performance Make cold calls in a courteous, yet assertive manner that translates to sales results Recruit, train, and direct staff ensuring they understand the brand and adhere to company policies and procedures Maintain comprehensive records detailing pricings, sales, activities reports, and other pertinent data Strictly adhere to budgets and project timelines