Sentences with phrase «get meaningful work»

If people can't get meaningful work, they are left to their own devices and sometimes will turn to crime.

You need to cross their bridge to get meaningful work and the money that goes with it.

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That means they'll get liquid, which is particularly meaningful for early - stage employees who take the risk of working for a startup and receive stock options in lieu of the higher pay and greater security available at more mature companies.

«The sky's the limit, but you have to get in the air to see how far you can reach the stars» and «My biggest fear is that we will run out of cash before we achieve traction and meaningful growth, and everyone's work will be for naught.»

If we're talking about Millennials in the workforce, then let's not suddenly change the topic around how Millennials also don't have the patience for deeply meaningful relationships — when their work managers don't really care whether or not their relationship is all that meaningful, as long as the excel spreadsheet gets filled out on time.

But top - down policies won't bring about meaningful change, warns Yost, founder and president of the Work + Life Fit Inc. consulting firm based in Madison, N.J. Instead, she recommends that companies adopt a «partnership» approach, encouraging employees to suggest arrangements that fit their own needs while still ensuring that work gets done — and gets done wWork + Life Fit Inc. consulting firm based in Madison, N.J. Instead, she recommends that companies adopt a «partnership» approach, encouraging employees to suggest arrangements that fit their own needs while still ensuring that work gets done — and gets done wwork gets done — and gets done well.

Many people get into business not just to make money, but to make their work lives more productive, meaningful and enjoyable.

«It's a lot easier to get people following a new direction if the organization can create a little relief from the mind - numbing amount of no - longer - meaningful work that awaits them.»

To get the most out of your contractor, give him or her something meaningful to do that's a slice of his or her work.

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You could quit work the next day, if you wanted — or you could get a more enjoyable or meaningful job, work for charity, or do a dozen other more fulfilling things instead.

Women suffered, not only because they lacked meaningful work, but also because they didn't get the kind of love from their men that they needed and deserved.

Since 2010, two large investors have been trying to get Smucker's to work on substantive and meaningful annual sustainability reporting and address risks associated with climate change, with marginal success.

We're always interested in doing good work with good people, so it's exciting getting to collaborate with the sports industry to bring meaningful products and service solutions together for those in our communities.

And they have to feel that the work they're doing is meaningful and challenging, and that they're able to get better at it when they work hard.

It's about giving them work that is more meaningful and challenging than they might currently be getting.

Of course, I am very grateful that I get to do work that is meaningful to me and constantly sparking the birthy -LSB-...]

Recognizing a role for the federal government in helping Lyme sufferers like Kaleigh and their advocates like Holly, Chris worked across party lines to get meaningful legislation through the House of Representatives.

We've done this in welfare, for instance through the introduction of greater conditionality — meaning that those who are out of work must show they are taking meaningful steps to find employment, in return for getting their benefits.

«Even when West Point cadets found their work interesting and meaningful, if they were also strongly motivated by extrinsic rewards,» such as a good salary or the respect of their peers, «they were less likely to complete their studies, continue their service, and get promoted early.»

After graduating and working as a technician for a few years, I realized that to do meaningful independent research, I needed to get a PhD.

One of the main hurdles was not just getting meaningful data to work with in the first place, but more so interpreting the data of these non-model species in a world where most wet - and - dry - lab efforts are focused on selected model species.

It inspired me to keep getting better and made the work more exciting, purposeful, and meaningful.

On a personal note, I had the pleasure of working with Lisa planning my wedding, and working with her and getting to know her became one of the most meaningful parts of the whole experience.

oh yes, I have struggled with saying, meaningful compliments about a woman's figure, at some of the most fun times, only not to lose the moment...... that is work, in a man's mind, most of us can not multitask, and then, they wonder why men get grumpy and tire out so easily.....

After two decades of working with singles, Cassie understands the ingredients for creating a long term and meaningful relationship and gets profound fulfillment by making people happy in one of the most important areas of their life — finding the right life partner.

We connect with each other because of our shared passion about the meaningful work we do, and whether during the workday or away from the office (or even on our Salt Lake — Park City vanpool), there's always an opportunity to get to know your team better.

I guess that's one advantage of him taking such a long time to getting back to doing solid, meaningful work.

Step 3: Involve professional organizations and professionals from the community to connect the academic study with the real world, and have students assume these professional roles during the expedition so they get a sense of what it would mean to be professionally engaged in meaningful work.

Math rotations or stations allow teachers to work with small groups, and they allow the rest of the class to get extra practice or to have meaningful extensions and go deeper.

It's been 30 years since the advent of the personal computer and we're still struggling to get teachers and administrators to integrate digital technologies into their daily work in ways that are substantive and meaningful.

One of the participants shared that she «really appreciated that the «assignments» were open - ended enough that [she] could apply [the results] to [her] own work», and another participant commented, «This [course] was so much better than any other (M) OOC I've ever participated in before... With this course, I felt like I had the autonomy to proceed at my own pace while still being able to interact with other course members in meaningful ways (e.g. getting constructive criticism / feedback on my assignments in a timely manner, seeing what other people created, etc.)».

Since the students are doing meaningful work, it only makes sense to get that work to the experts and audience who need it.

Summary: This is an interview with the author, Paul Tough, whose new book «Helping Children Succeed» explores the importance of connection and meaningful hard work that will help children persevere when the going gets tough.

We work with our partners to engage in inquiry cycles — cycles of learning that allow us to ask a meaningful question, determine a focus based on this question and get the support needed in order to answer it.

In order to not let this opportunity pass us by, education and community leaders will need to continue working together to establish a new way of getting things done that is grounded in authentic and meaningful dialogue and transparent decision making that is focused on maximizing every resource available to ensure the success of kids.

Well, SBAC and PARCC federal grants from the feds expire Sept 2014, and so they would like everyone to think the test development work is complete and 2015 is an operational testing year, when in fact it is really the last full year of test development needed to get interpretable or meaningful scores.

Some of this year's other grantees that joined YouthTruth in getting celebrated for their work in producing meaningful feedback loops and increasing foundation openness include: Habitat for Humanity International, Global Living, Creative Commons, the Center for Effective Philanthropy and Urban Institute With Feeding America.

Authentic audiences spark a sense of meaningful work and pride in their learning that simply isn't there if students are asked to present their learning on a poster that gets hung in the school hallway.

«Parents and teachers are working hard every day to make sure every child in New Jersey gets a great education, and while recent tenure reform represents meaningful progress, more reforms are necessary for our students to achieve the results we want for them,» said Craig Wallace, StudentsFirst's state director for New Jersey.

It's like I'm getting to harness all of the energy and optimism I had for Digital Book World in the beginning, and directing it towards a community that does important, meaningful work and is facing serious real - world challenges.

While I haven't worked at Pearson for some years now, it will always be meaningful to me as I started my publishing career at Pearson Education (Maskew Miller Longman) in Cape Town, and it was Pearson head office's promotion of technology and content management that first got me thinking about new forms of publishing and sparked my interest in content management.

You've worked hard to get where you are, and both your things and your family are meaningful to you.

To me, the most important time for perfect communication, to get your point completely across, is in social interaction — when words, symbols, intonation of laughter and waving hands work together to imply something deeper and more meaningful.

In her seminal 1998 work Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray first formalized the concept of agency, defining it as the feeling we get when we take meaningful action in an interactive system and experience the results of our decisions and choices.

In fact, about a year and a half ago we worked with the artist James Nares, who came in and did a project with my colleagues in the photograph department where he selected works from the collection that were very meaningful to him and which he had gotten to know over years and years.

So how do I get that moving into the work and being effective and meaningful and rich?

House Democrats pressing for action on climate policy are having to resort to various work - arounds, in a situation where it is difficult even to get a meaningful climate change hearing, and for now impossible to move significant legislation.

From 3 August 2009 the commission has acquired meaningful enforcement powers which should get in substantially more cash and lead to increased work for long suffering district judges.

That phrase is designed to fool the client into believing that his bills will be reasonable and to fool the associate into believing that he will actually get to do some meaningful work.