Similarly, efficacy has been a chief
focus of our work at Pearson since 2013.
While there are many ways to get student feedback,
the focus of our work at YouthTruth, a national nonprofit based in San Francisco, is through surveys.
«
The focus of our work at Waltham / Mars Petcare is increasingly on finding ways to support owners in knowing how to keep their pets healthy as well as happy.»
Since a huge
focus of our work at Aurora is making it easier for solar professionals to design optimal solar installations quickly and easily, we thought it was fitting that two of our top - performing articles focus on the intricacies of solar design.
We discussed his background and
the focus of his work at Edge, as well as what inspired him to write Evolutionary Road.
Not exact matches
«Flow, according to Csikszentmihalyi, a psychology and management professor
at Claremont Graduate University, is a state
of heightened
focus and immersion in activities like art, play, and
work.
Franklin, then just shy
of her 32nd birthday and
working as a research chemist
at King's College in London, had to rush off to a meeting
at the Royal Society and so didn't wait around for the full image to come into
focus.
She added that Thiel should assume more responsibility and resign from his role
at YC «to
focus on his
work getting his candidate elected, instead
of putting his friends in the position to defend him.»
Cameron was a senior denim designer
at Madewell and global denim director
at Calvin Klein, while Winter had
worked in merchandising
at J.Crew for seven years, and together they brought this fashion expertise to create
focused collections
of high - quality pieces like jeans.
Still, Moss paints a compelling picture
of what can happen when you make time to
focus on happiness
at work.
It comes
at a tough time for showbiz personalities to be
at the helm
of a live broadcast, given the intense public
focus on sexual harassment and the darker side
of working in Hollywood.
Whatever you choose, try to think less
of what's «cool» in the media
at present, and
focus on what the employee wants out
of their
work day.
Consider the possibility that you're making all
of that money so you can do something that's bigger than you and whatever it is you're supposed to be
focusing on
at work.»
I have tried to
focus on the important
work at hand and serve this President and this country to the best
of my abilities.
One
of the most interesting Gallup Q12 survey questions
focuses on whether an employee has a best friend
at work.
Take a page from what Google (
at least possibly used to do) and let employees use a portion
of their
work week to
focus on a side project that may help your business.
Much
of this coverage
focuses too much on the political rhetoric
at the expense
of the people who actually perform the
work of financial regulation; the ones who will be the best and last line
of defense against another financial crisis.
He eats healthier, exercises more regularly, gets better sleep; he leaves
work at the office and
focuses wholly on his family when he's home, and he's curbed his habit
of being short with his employees.
«The value is that employees can understand what is expected
of them and what they can expect from the company,» adds Paul Rowson, managing director
at World
at Work, a global human resources association that focuses on compensation, benefits, work - life, and integrated total rewa
Work, a global human resources association that
focuses on compensation, benefits,
work - life, and integrated total rewa
work - life, and integrated total rewards.
I've known people who were supremely driven and
focused on achieving goals outside
of work... and totally lazy while
at work.
Focusing on one task
at a time won't
work if your phone is consistently interrupting you with personal texts or the latest ballgame scores, so productive people give themselves the gift
of momentum by eliminating distractions from immediate surroundings.
Taking all the above books into account, Newport, a PhD professor
at Georgetown, synthesizes the concept
of focus in Deep
Work.
This results in a total annual cost
of sleep deprivation to the U.S. economy
of more than $ 63 billion, in the form
of absenteeism and presenteeism (when employees are present
at work physically but not really mentally
focused).
Throughout the observation period, about half
of the employees changed managers
at least once, and the researchers
focused specifically on employees who switched to
working for a manager
of a different gender.
While acknowledging the difficulty
of focusing, especially
at work, Brauer suggested that implementing a few simple steps in your workday can help you
focus and make a dramatic difference in your rate
of work output.
A lot
of career issues vanish, or
at least shrink, when you
focus on how to have a happier and healthier
work life.
Instead
of renting office space per se, the company
focused on helping entrepreneurs
work at home without compromising their privacy or corporate image.
Systrom was still
working full - time
at Nextstop.com, so he would need an infusion
of cash that would allow him to
focus full time on developing his product.
Large institutional investors are good
at focusing on long - term gains, and pension funds in particular must
work to anticipate the needs
of contributors decades in advance.
For employers, this nugget is particularly compelling: According to Huffington, the total annual cost
of sleep deprivation to the U.S. economy is more than $ 63 billion in absenteeism and «presenteeism» («when employees are present
at work physically but not really mentally
focused»).
I found that early morning hours until lunchtime
work really well for myself, starting my day with a bunch
of tasks
at hand to help me keep that
focus for several hours.
When you do, it allows you to hyper
focus on the tasks
at hand and bring to bear all
of your talents and skills to do amazing
work.
The central idea behind Sweden's six - hour
work day is to encourage people to put in a
focused six hours
of work during the day, get their tasks done, and leave
at a reasonable hour in order to enjoy their evening.
«The problem is that this mode
of working - termed «continuous partial attention» - serves to fragment our attention, reducing our
focus on the task
at hand.
Take me: I'm good
at working hard and staying
focused and delaying gratification and grinding — especially
at unusual pursuits, like doing juuust a few too many pushups in one day — but do I actively cultivate a steady stream
of things I can't wait to do?
The end
of 20 percent time won't be the end
of innovation
at Google, though: engineers will continue to
work on new ideas, albeit in a more
focused way,
at Google X lab.
But if you
worked at GE
at that time and heard Welch speak, he would have
focused over and over again on just three things: globalize the business, drive service and recurring revenues, and improve quality throughout the company by embracing the discipline
of six sigma.
Take your most important goal right now — whether it's to lose weight, make more money, or land the promotion
at work — and spend some time
focusing all
of your attention towards getting very clear about the answers to the questions I just proposed.
Commuting has an effect on performance as it increases anger and resentment
at work, absenteeism, and has a negative impact on punctuality and the ability to
focus and perform
at the same level as other colleagues who live nearer to the place
of work.»
I chose her to kick off this list because
of her division's clear
focus, under her guidance, on understanding how human beings thrive
at work.
As part
of our Thought Leaders series
focusing on inspiration, we interview Dr. Joan Fallon
at Yankee Stadium — a place that she says renews her passion for
work.
The company
focuses on providing professionally managed
work force housing to enable middle - market renters to enjoy the benefits
of living in Boston
at affordable rents.
At the end
of your day, review what
worked, where you had the most
focus and where you got distracted.
While there are lots
of potential ways we could help
working mothers, one that may seem counterintuitive is to
focus less on the handful
of women
at the top — just 28
of Canada's 500 largest companies are headed by women — and to emphasize instead the successes happening in the middle.
[D] espite our research being
focused on the
work aspects
of co-working, the social and learning sides
of co-working came out loud and clear,» Steve King, a partner
at Emergent Research, wrote
of the results.
In fact, nearly 60 percent
of the more than 1,000 full - time employees surveyed said their relationship with their employer positively impacts their
focus or productivity
at work, and 44 percent said it positively impacts their stress levels.
«In a world in which our attention is increasingly under siege, better
focus makes it possible get more
work done, in less time,
at a higher level
of quality,» the two write.
«When we first started Wrappup, our vision was to put back the
focus on conversations itself, and let AI do the hard
work,» added Ayush Chordia, co-founder and CTO, Wrappup, who will now be Director
of Engineering and Applied Research
at Voicera.
Lightwave is one
of several companies furiously
at work creating a new field — let's call it the emotion economy —
focused on sensing and analyzing consumers» mental states.
In one study
of thousands
of employees, researchers found a non-so surprising statistic: only 20 %
of Americans can
focus on just one task
at a time
at work.