Sentences with phrase «encourages individual efforts»

We recognize that satisfied employees are best suited to attract new customers, and to that end we offer a supportive environment that rewards excellence and encourages individual efforts.

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At Investing 501 we try to encourage individuals to think for themselves, but try to focus that effort with examples and concepts we have found personally helpful.

It takes the individual effort of each person deciding to feel that way, and we can encourage it through something as simple as a «party mindset,» where we celebrate the things that are good rather than focusing on the things that are bad.

In other words, an understanding of spirituality in which knowing God requires intellectual effort tends to encourage an individual to think about his or her responsibility to the poor.

It seems heretical even to suggest it, but it may be time to return to the earlier, essentially free - market model of mission support — encouraging individuals and churches to support the specific mission efforts they choose.

In order to encourage more individuals to embrace plants and feel confident about creating nourishing meals based on their dietary preference, I am making more of an effort to create «base recipes».

In addition to Annual Fund fundraising, ambassadors will be encouraging other SNA members in their state to apply for available scholarships, use resources provided for Breakfast in the Classroom and other Foundation programs, join in research efforts to develop best practices, and nominate individuals for the annual School Nutrition Hero awards.

Despite the fact that the city already has a heralded public - matching system that encourages small donation fundraising, Albanese pointed to the «democracy voucher» program instituted in Seattle, which is even more radical in its efforts to lower individual donation

In an effort to encourage open participation in a science storytelling process that transcends the individual science writer and the individual science blog, this project also embodies an «open notebook» approach to in - depth science reporting.

To demonstrate that land degradation neutrality (LDN) is necessary and achievable, the Land for Life programme engages in awareness raising and knowledge support and offers the Land for Life Award to encourage and draw attention to organizations and individuals engaging in land rehabilitation efforts.

Although these individual efforts are admirable, it's even more encouraging to see top - down attention from governing bodies who have the power to legitimize what has long been a grass - roots movement.

The present government is making efforts in this area to attract more people into the profession and encourage individuals to return to the classroom.

All five parts of the Growth Mindsets Primary Collection in one place, with a discount on the individual prices: - 25 Ways to Encourage Trial and Error in the Classroom - 25 Ways to Give Effective Feedback - 25 Ways to Promote Metacognition - 25 Ways to Target Student Effort - 25 Ways to use Language to Promote Growth Mindsets That's 125 strategies, activities and techniques covering the key areas of classroom practice you can focus on to develop growth mindsets across the board.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

58 As Catharine MacKinnon argues in the pages of this Issue, these decisions have undermined efforts to hold schools accountable through the private right of action because schools can do very little and still satisfy the standard.59 As such, it is possible that this state of affairs further encourages individuals to seek relief from OCR, elevating the need for OCR to provide «effective protection» and decrease the time it takes to investigate claims.

Pruitt is encouraged by the current efforts at schools such as at Dunn to address the individual needs of students.

Some teachers encouraged a performance orientation, using data to compare individual students and groups with one another in an effort to foster healthy competition; however, the research suggests that such comparisons can actually be demotivating.

(4) Conduct a program for end - stage and renal disease research, to include support of projects and demonstrations for providing special services (including transplantation and dialysis), artificial kidneys, and supplies * necessary for the REHABILITATION of individuals suffering from such disease and which will (A) insure dissemination of research findings, (B) provide encouragement and support for initiatives and new approaches by individual and institutional investigators, and (C) establish and maintain close working relationships, with other governmental and voluntary institutions and organizations engaged in similar efforts, in order to unify and coordinate scientific efforts, encourage joint planning, and promote the interchange of data and reports among investigators in the field of end - stage renal disease.

(3) Conduct of a program for spinal cord injury research, to include support of spinal cord injuries projects and demonstrations established pursuant to section 303 (b), which will (A) insure dissemination of research findings among all such centers, (B) provide encouragement and support for initiatives and new approaches by individual and institutional investigators, and (C) establish and maintain close working relationships with other governmental and voluntary institutions and organizations engaged in similar efforts, in order to unify and coordinate scientific efforts, encourage joint planning, and promote the interchange of data and reports among spinal cord injury investigators.

Organizers are encouraging individuals to log - on and participate in the GiveLitter ™ campaign that reflects an ongoing commitment by World's Best Cat Litter ™ to support the efforts of animal shelters who find homes for neglected, abused and lost animals.

Led by FEMA's Ready Campaign, Citizen Corps and The Advertising Council, this effort encourages individuals, families, businesses and communities to work together and take action to prepare for emergencies.

Through an all - volunteer organization, their mission is to help end pet overpopulation by encouraging responsible pet ownership; promoting spay / neuter programs; and uniting the efforts of rescue groups, animal control agencies, traditional shelters, veterinarians and other concerned individuals.

PVP will reportedly be class based, and teamwork will be highly encouraged as opposed to individual efforts.

Competitive will not see these changes, but to make up for that Bungie is removing radars from competitive play in an effort to encourage flanks and reward individual play.

Entities or individuals interested in green building techniques are encouraged to use the resources provided by the certification program as a starting point in the effort to construct more sustainable buildings.

June 19, 2012 Carbon offset provider kicks off green rewards program In a joint effort to encourage individuals to reduce their carbon emissions, carbon offset provider Native Energy has partnered with Recyclebank ®, the company that rewards people for taking everyday green actions.

The Best of Green: Business & Politics All of the individual efforts that TreeHugger encourages people to do to green their lives, buy more eco-friendly products, reduce their carbon footprint and eco-footprint as a whole will only take us so far on the path of creating a truly green and sustainable future.

Responsible Science is a provocative examination of the role of educational efforts; research guidelines; and the contributions of individual scientists, mentors, and institutional officials in encouraging responsible research practices.

The ENERGY STAR Change a Light, Change the World Campaign is designed to bring individuals and organizations together in a nationwide effort to save energy and help fight global warming, starting by encouraging a switch to lighting that has earned the government's ENERGY STAR label for energy efficiency.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary.

TakeALittleAction.com — Highlighting individuals and initiatives that advance women in law, tech, science, finance, and other industries to encourage support of their efforts

My point is that a large law firm can and should encourage its lawyers to blog, but (a) there must be a committed, enthusiastic blogger driving the effort, and (b) the bulk of the promotional reward will go to the individual blogger (as it should — she's the one doing all the work).

Posts from Jack Newton on March 12, 2012 and March 19, 2012 questioned whether tasking individual lawyers and law firms to undertake a sophisticated audit would be truly effective or merely encourage cursory and inadequate efforts to comply.

If you don't have friends looking for work, find someone who you know to be encouraging and positive - minded, and make an effort to get together with that individual as often as you can, just to let those good vibes rub off on you!

The court process is only used after every effort has been made to encourage individuals who need treatment to voluntarily participate.

The initiative encourages efforts at multiple levels: individual (including both staff and participants), the Healthy Start program, and community - wide efforts.

Encourage them to have a go Participation is less about winning and losing, and more about valuing individual effort, persistence and improvement.

These efforts will help you align individual, classroom, and program efforts and encourage collective responsibility for improving instructional practices.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary

A symphony orchestra produces gorgeous music partly because of the virtuosity of the individual musicians, but mostly because the Maestro is able to fuse the efforts of all musicians into a cohesive unit, while at the same time setting the pace and encouraging every member to give his best effort for the common good.

That issue is at the heart of an effort by AARP to encourage communities and individuals to plan for the future when they make decisions about their homes and neighborhoods.