Sentences with phrase «first being in a team»

Students then progress to the point that they can solve the problem on their own only after first being in a team and then paired with a partner.

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The new team's first task was to analyze the roughly two dozen estimates that poured in from manufacturers across the globe and start to analyze who would be best.

That's why I started the team in the first place.

The key enterprising skills I used when first starting out are the very same ones I use today: the art of delegation, risk - taking, surrounding yourself with a great team and working on projects you really believe in.

Telfer is also a big presence on the Canadian case competition circuit, playing host to the first annual Diversity and Inclusion MBA contest in 2016 and sending teams to the John Molson School of Business tournament every year.

Crammed into a small, fourth - floor office in Toronto's trendy Queen Street West area, he and his team of seven — collectively known as Blot Interactive — are crunching to get their first video game done.

Greenberg is working with a development team on the first Sloan's franchise and hopes to have three open in Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange counties by the end of 2014.

When you put first things first, you empower yourself and your team to enjoy every day of this beautiful journey and achieve heights that can't be reached by neglecting what is important in life.»

Smith and his team went around to college campuses with their llamas (Cotopaxi's logo is a llama — «they're rugged and they're the chillest animals you can imagine,» Smith says) and got a thousand people to sign up to compete in the first Questival.

So in the case of CVS, Meyer and his team first made sure that the company's decision to rebrand was warranted: Leaders wanted to push its image as a more health - focused alternative to other drug stores.

«Probiotics are probably the single most important new food category to emerge in the last 20 years,» Scott Bass, the head of the Global Life Sciences team at law firm Sidley Austin LLP and an adviser for the FDA on its first dietary supplement website, told Business Insider.

The key to being successful, then, doesn't lie in working with family or not working with family, but instead is rooted in the decision of which family members to bring on to your team in the first place.

At NYU Langone Medical Center, a team is using 3D printing technology to help plan and execute «Jaw - in - a-day» surgery that was the first of its kind in the United States.

In 2014, a Retalix team flew to Toronto to see first - hand what Target was dealing with.

BMO (TSX: BMO) said it was the first bank to roll out mobile payments in 2011 and teamed up with MasterCard.

«We are excited to continue growing our team with the first fulfillment center in Utah,» said Akash Chauhan, Amazon's Vice President of North American operations.

In their first season back after the program was cut from the school for budgetary reasons, the team qualifies for their just their second bowl game in historIn their first season back after the program was cut from the school for budgetary reasons, the team qualifies for their just their second bowl game in historin history.

Extracurriculars are strong at Laurier — the school's team took first place in the AspenInstitute's 2011 Business & Society InternationalMBA Case Competition.

Less heralded by history was a group of six women who worked in wartime secrecy at the University of Pennsylvania, where John Mauchly and Presper Eckert led a team that was building ENIAC, the world's first programmable, all - electronic, general - purpose computer.

He's a distinguished IBM engineer who was on the team that built Deep Blue, which, in 1997, became the first computer to defeat a world champion chess player, Garry Kasparov, in match play.

In 2008, the institution's leadership team learned through the results of the first Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers Systems (HCAHPS) that patients» perception of their experience at the clinic was well below average in virtually every individual measurIn 2008, the institution's leadership team learned through the results of the first Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers Systems (HCAHPS) that patients» perception of their experience at the clinic was well below average in virtually every individual measurin virtually every individual measure.

New hires know just how important it is to make a good first impression early in their tenure, but it's also important for companies to put their best foot forward for their newest team members.

Forty - four major law firms and 55 corporate legal departments are teaming up to boost diversity in the legal profession by drawing on two inspirational figures: the late Dan Rooney, beloved owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Arabella Mansfield, a 19th century women's rights activist who became the first American woman admitted into the legal profession in 1869.

But because of the home's historic background — it was built in 1906 by the famed architect Dudley S. Van Antwerp, and was home to Aubrey Lewis, the first African - American to be captain of a sports team at Notre Dame and one of the first black FBI agents — it can not be torn down.

I joined as Buffer's first Culture Scout in October 2015, when we went from growing the team by 1 to 2 people per month to being on the lookout for 30 to 40 team members between September 2015 and April 2016.

Longstreet said that his team first noticed that a lot of employees were personally interested in eating more plant - based protein products.

Why It Took Off Fandeavor's first offering was two $ 400 behind - the - scenes immersion «experiences» at the Las Vegas Invitational college basketball tournament; each package included a «chalk - talk» with an assistant coach from UNLV, two seats in a luxury suite and a basketball autographed by the head coaches of all the teams in the tourney.

The company is expected to rake in $ 366.69 million in ad revenue this year, according to eMarketer, a digital media analytics team that released its Snapchat revenue predictions for the first time.

She was also the first American to compete in a hijab, and won bronze in the team saber competition.

The first ruling, in 1992, was overturned by U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which sided with the football team based on a lack of evidence of disparagement, and on the principle of «laches.»

In an early staff meeting, when we first decided to start this project, I explained to the team that we wanted to build our tribe, because we truly believed that the world of books was falling behind the overall virtualization that publishing and other industries were going through.

Quarterback Josh Allen is projected to be one of the top picks in the 2018 NFL Draft, but a series of offensive tweets that recently surfaced could give some teams pause before selecting him with one of the top picks in the first round.

And don't forget that at the level of racing where we compete, our team is often the first time where young drivers get an opportunity to race in front of the big teams on the big tracks.

The team is the first all - female team to enter Kari's Tour de Freedom challenge in which they will ride an average of 200 km per day for six days from Esperance to Perth - raising money for the drug rehabilitation program.

In this edited excerpt, the authors offer a first - person account of sales smarts from Philip R. Styrlund, CEO of The Summit Group, a consulting and sales training firm, which proves that when salespeople and customers are on the same team, finding solutions to a mutual problem can be easy.

Born in Minnesota and now a resident of Vail, Colorado, Vonn was on Team USA for the Olympics in 2002, 2006 and 2010 when she became the first American woman to win a downhill Olympic gold medal.

«We know that the origin of [Tropical Race 4] is in Indonesia and that it spread from there, most likely first into Taiwan and then into China and the rest of Southeast Asia,» one of the team, Gert Kema, told Gywnn Guilford at Quartz.

Azazie, an online bridal party retailer, is committed to providing innovative solutions in a traditonal industry by focusing on team first.

«The First Meta team is shocked and saddened by the tragic loss of our friend and CEO Autumn Radtke,» the company said in a statement on its website.

I can't tell you how often I'm in a conversation or presentation with a major corporation's senior management team and the first topic to arise is frustration with a lack of effective internal communication and information sharing.

As the first person from a non-radio background appointed to a senior executive position in the company, Ms Wayman oversees all aspects of the MIX 94.5 and 92.9 radio stations, leads a team of 84 staff and is responsible for a $ 27 million budget.

We actually see startups in China grow at a faster pace the first three to five years than they do in the U.S.. It's not uncommon to see Chinese teams working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m, six days a week.

In fact, empathy, striving to treat others — both customers and fellow team members — as we want to be treated, is Pyle's first core value.

This may involve multiple interviews in different settings with different people (e.g. other team members if this isn't your first hire).

It's the first one hosted in South America, for one, and it also features a refugee team representing misplaced people from around the world.

The first was to get deeply involved in the sales process and start working with EMC's sales team.

After bringing these people on, you still aren't going to have additional dollars in your startup's pocket, but you'll be well - on - your - way to a solid team that's dedicated to gaining your product traction, which is about 80 percent of what most early - stage investors look for in the first place.

His résumé is enough to justify it: two - time MVP, first unanimous MVP, scoring champion, NBA champion, best player on a team that won more regular season games than any team in NBA history.

When possible, the very team members who were involved in the interviewing should greet the new hire on his or her first day.

Your in - house team can help, but, as often as not, the thing that's busted is something they've built in the first place and have been bandaging rather than rebuilding for years -(See Build a Bridge Over Your Old Code, Not a Band - Aid).