Sentences with phrase «conversations about your profession»

Get involved in various conversations about your profession, and by all means, answer questions.

Not exact matches

For me, «playing in my lane» means using my position as PwC's chairman and senior partner to drive conversations about race and diversity, to drive change and ask the hard questions within PwC and the profession in which we compete, and to have the discussion with other CEOs and corporate leaders.

For this column, I've asked five people in my own profession whose work I admire and informs my own to share some things to think about as you continue having conversations about race.

It's also connected me to people in a variety of professions who are committed to having difficult discussions about race, conversations that are essential if our society is going to reach its full, inclusive potential.

I'm not certain why it is OK for you to insult people who disagree with you and then take offense at my casual comment about the misuse of a car and the profession of loving a father being contradictory (comparing it to bringing «God» into the conversation).

Many years ago, I found myself agreeing with a colleague in educational publishing, who, in the midst of a conversation about what diverse backgrounds we all had, described publishing as «the accidental profession.»

By giving personal testimony about our paths through our studies and our profession, we hope to engage students in conversations about scientific careers.

Conversations about CAS activities, voices from the actuarial profession, and more Frequency about 1 post per month.

The only sense to be made of it is that Taking Lives intends some sort of angry statement about a woman's choice of career over family (an early conversation chides Illeana for, essentially, being successful in a traditionally male profession), finding a fugitive breed of Ashley Judd - like glee in punishing its powerful feminine centre with physical abuse - into - mutilation, rape of a kind, and a brutal disdain for her intelligence and discretion.

As several experts told us, the NBPTS has «changed the conversation» about teaching, within the profession if not outside it.

As part of the way the NBPTS has «changed the conversation» about teaching, it has gained increasing acceptance in the education profession (including the national teachers» associations) for performance assessment and for differential certification and pay for outstanding teachers.

But it is also clear that the NBPTS has changed the conversation about teaching within the profession by setting and gaining acceptance of its high standards and by persuading teachers and their unions to begin to accept performance evaluation and differential certification and pay for teachers.

Not only have we «changed the conversation» about the teaching profession, as William Lowe Boyd and Jillian Reese note («Great Expectations,» features, Spring 2006), but we are building market demand in American education by insisting on excellence that is tied to student learning.

[/ quote] Though the uneven racial dynamics between teachers and students have enlivened conversations about the critical importance of a diverse teaching profession, these discussions have yet to galvanize an interest in understanding the institutions and teacher education programs that prepare the future teachers of color in our nation.

A conversation with male Latino educator Marty Perez about his journey to the teaching profession and his passion for bringing untold stories to the classroom

The federal education space is currently engrossed in debates about the merits of the Department of Education46 and the need for federal protections against discrimination in schools.47 This is a departure from last year's substantive conversations around refining state accountability systems, modernizing the teaching profession, and lowering college tuition.

The proposal, he said, represents «a vision of an empowered profession, [but] somehow in this conversation it's turned into a threat, and I don't understand it and I'm angry about it.»

If we are going to have the conversation we need to have about the future of the teaching profession, we all need to agree that many teachers are incredibly skilled and working exceedingly hard.

In conversations about Finland's stunning success over the past decade, many education leaders look at what makes the system work so well — the high bar for entry into the teaching profession, the absence of standardized tests, the embedded professional development and support systems, to name just a few — and ask «Why can't we do this in my country?»

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter Movement, the goal is to encourage candid conversations about being black in America and dealing with race within the advertising profession.

Currently, our exclusive Think Tank conversation series enables architects, designers, consultants, and their clients, as well as our corporate sponsors, to learn about vanguard trends reshaping their professions and the built environment.

As members of a profession who primarily make their living either writing or speaking, the idea that having a conversation about your interests and abilities in your own profession sounds both logical and easy.

The ABA Journal also wants to host and facilitate conversations among lawyers about their profession.

Since that Report was released, the conversation about where our profession is heading hasn't stopped.

The ABA Journal wants to host and facilitate conversations among lawyers about their profession.

At first, Ria Guidone was floored when she was told to «seduce the court,» but it helped open up a conversation about women in the profession.

Matthew Moeller: Just a little bit of camaraderie in terms of they understood the profession and everything, not so much a lot of referral opportunity but a lot of curiosity I think amongst the handful of us that were working out of that address, about exactly what are you doing, what's your practice like, who are your clients, those kind of conversations.

Finally, it can be a kind of conscience and forum for the profession, speaking with a strong editorial voice about social and public - policy issues and enabling conversations about those issues within the profession.

Another intersection would be the recent focus by the Ontario Bar Association's initiative, Opening Remarks, to promote conversations about mental health in the profession.

When I told them that there is an ongoing conversation in the legal profession about the value and length of articling and that there aren't enough positions for those who want to article, they were surprised.

Proper guidance of an articling student or junior lawyer requires endless explanation of the law, heart - to - heart conversations about anything and everything, marking up memos and correcting draft documents, taking the junior to court appearances or client meetings (and maybe lunch), introducing the idea of law as a business as well as a profession, helping resolve complex ethical issues that sometimes arise — and that's just the half of it.

The ABA Journal wants to further facilitate conversations among lawyers about their profession.

If you're looking for a bit of nostalgia about the legal profession or a history lesson, take some time to read Bruce MacEwen's detailed conversation with Arnie Jacobs, a longstanding partner at Proskauer in New York and a «dean of securities law.»

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

When speaking or writing about diversity in the legal profession, the conversation usually focuses on gender, sexual orientation or race and ethnicity.

«It's a great time to be talking about innovation in the legal profession but it's an even better time to be leading that conversation,» she said.

Later in the conversation we also talked about how that interplays with the differing challenges facing the members of each profession approaching Collaborative Practice.

Law firms now care (at least a bit) about technology: Whether the result of client pressure (more on that below), shifting priorities among senior firm leadership, or as a lagging indicator of a general trend among professions, law firms are now open to conversations about the widespread adoption of new technology.

Jennifer has had an unusual career in the legal profession going from continuing legal education (CLE) professional to practicing lawyer to marketing expert and, in addition to our conversation about WordPress, she shares some «Alt Legal» career tips, so make sure to check out the interview.

We know we can't answer every key question, but we hope this effort will lead to a better conversation among leaders of the legal profession about service quality and innovation.

The commentaries about the inequities and irrationality of the legal class system at the 2017 CLOC Institute were fast and furious: from Richard Susskind's explanation about the importance of the ABS rules (alternative business structures) in the UK in breaking down walls to allow new ways for lawyers to collaborate and share accountability (and profits) with professionals from other disciplines and professions within the same workplace, to the battle cry so clearly articulated by Lucy Bassli (then of Microsoft and now of InnoLegal Services), demanding that we remove the term «non-lawyer» from our daily conversations and certainly from our value playbooks.

Ms. Stiverson stated that: «The recommendation to change the name of the Association has started a conversation about the future of AALL, and the profession as a whole, that we hope to continue.

Even if it does manage to reliably steer people to have conversations with their doctors about their sleep, something that could benefit millions of Americans, people in the medical profession are unlikely to take it seriously without more extensive research.

Conversations about CAS activities, voices from the actuarial profession, and more Frequency about 1 post per month.

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With so much turmoil within our culture about our very notions of intimacy and the rewards of long - term commitment, it's a conversation that we need to encourage and lead if our profession is to keep its cultural relevance.

Instead, it opens up a conversation about the things couples therapists rarely talk about with clients or with each other, a conversation that we need to encourage if our profession is to keep its cultural relevance.

Professionalizing Early Childhood Education as a Field of Practice is an invitation to participate in conversations about the structure and practice of the profession.