Sentences with phrase «getting good at saying»

Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty.

Before you can even think about getting good at saying no, get clear on what to say yes to in life.

You can make light of it if you want («I know you don't give up easily — but neither do I. I'm getting better at saying no»).

Handily, Peter Bregman, writing on the HBR Blog Network, offers a mental toolkit of nine practices to help oversolicitous entrepreneurs get better at saying no and avoid both exhaustion and calendar chaos.

I'm getting better at saying «No» to things that I really don't have time for.

FROM BABE»S MOUTH Over several months, video cameras captured Deb Roy's son getting better at saying «ball» and then «blue ball,» a distinctive object that can be seen in some of the clips.

Even the worst lab employee can usually avoid getting negative recommendation letters because letter writers have gotten good at saying nothing.

And here are a few examples of teachers» goals: to more consistently draw on student data to inform my teaching; to employ high standards for all of my students, not just the ones I easily relate to; to be more open to experimenting with the new technologies in my classroom; to working more collaboratively; to getting better at saying «no»; to giving supportive and constructive feedback to my colleagues; to be more open to my colleagues» feedback about my teaching.

You would think that as your relationship progresses, you get better at saying «goodbye,» but I've found the opposite to be true.

You will get better at saying no to clutter as you see the results of your hard work!

Not exact matches

González Franch says supervisors have gotten better at speaking to groups and doing it with respect.

«It's never a good thing when the markets are spending time focused on rancour and brinkmanship in Washington instead of being focused on what are some pretty reasonable fundamentals that we're getting,» said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis.

The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter: «Eric Hellweg over at HBR said on Twitter this is one of their all - time best sellers,» Dickerson points out.

But persuasion isn't just for charismatic types — anyone can be better at getting people to say yes to requests.

That decision was certainly the right one for me and my opportunities in business at the time and, looking back now, I would have to say it worked out pretty well for us and also the driver that wound up getting that rookie test.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

«And you wonder where he gets all of the time and energy and discipline to do it because human nature says that after you've been good at something for a very long time, you typically either get distracted or your intensity or focus wanes.

«Let's say you create a self - improving A.I. to pick strawberries,» Musk told Vanity Fair, «and it gets better and better at picking strawberries and picks more and more, and it is self - improving, so all it really wants to do is pick strawberries.

Pham says she's gotten good at sticking to her guns.

«When it's time to actually get to the task we have to do, we're often at a better place, having kind of done everything else,» says Steel.

A third of respondents to polls by various American and Canadian health organizations report getting a good night's rest at best a few times per month; more than one in 10 — some studies say almost 50 % — suffer from insomnia.

«But also we've found the hiring process is much better if you've got recruiters embedded within the company and they're much more proficient in telling potential employees about some of the benefits and the way the company works and really playing up the positive aspects rather than just saying, «OK, here's a list of five companies that are hiring at the moment; we're happy to make intros to you.»»

It's a good idea to schedule a lunch or other informal get - together with your new hire and at least one or two members of the team he or she will be joining prior to the first official day at work, says Raz.

However, Diego May, the Argentine co-founder of Junar, an open data platform for businesses, says if you promote yourself well and land funding, you will get attention from good engineers — so long as you can provide a job for at least a year.

«Airbnb only had to build Airbnb once,» but Gigster gets better at solving similar problems over time, Dalgaard says.

Watson said, «Advancing as a manager requires getting good at choosing the right people for jobs.»

When you walk into the doctor's office and share your concern, ideally, you want them to take one look at you, say they've seen what you have a thousand times before, and confidently recommend a course of treatment to get you well.

Dataminr's Bailey says his company is getting better at separating wheat from chaff.

It's a big part of Berkshire that stands to get only bigger, Buffett said in May at the company's annual shareholder meeting, adding that it's «hard to imagine a better - run operation.»

«Here is a company that has the best movies about how we've got to help one another and how racism is wrong and how we've got to take care of our toys,» said Glynndana Shevlin, a 58 - year - old who's worked for almost 30 years at Disney.

Hoover says the best way to get your product noticed is to build something compelling and interesting and to communicate it well so if someone is scanning a list of new products and taking in a lot of information quickly, he or she can easily understand the value proposition from looking at a tagline.

But that said, we can look at FCA's most recent quarterly results and get a pretty good idea as to how important Jeep is to the company's overall bottom line.

«It's always better to get to the end of your experience and have extra money for your re-entry or your nest egg,» she says, adding that the exact amount of money you need varies depending on whether you plan to travel or stay planted in one location, what activities you plan to do and whether you have a job waiting for you at the other end.

If you're Apple with a cash hoard exceeding $ 250 billion, you've got to be looking at how really well your services business (iTunes, Apple Music, App Store, etc.) is doing, and saying, how do I accelerate this part of my business even more rapidly?

All young people can do is base their options on what the current health - care rules are today, said Carolyn McClanahan, both a certified financial planner and an M.D. «The number one thing young people need to do is continue to scream at the politicians to get some good health legislative policy in place,» said McClanahan, founder and director of financial planning at Life Planning Partners.

«It gets him press and he might as well enjoy the spotlight he's in,» said Leonard Steinhorn, a professor of communication at American University specializing in American politics and history.

The authors say that the better people are at recognizing others» emotions the more able they are to influence others effectively and get along with others, which eventually results in greater career success and higher income.

Author, personal finance expert, and self - made millionaire David Bach said he got his best financial tip from his grandmother at 7 - years - old.

Mark Robinson, chief investment officer at Bordier & Cie (UK), said that while markets might continue to grind upwards in 2018, there was a possibility that current economic conditions were as good as it gets.

Coaches balked at having to «share» training of their athletes with Karolyi, but she says the idea was never to supercede them, but rather to collaborate in order to get the best out of America's most talented gymnasts.

Or, as soon as we're good at it we need to get good at some other totally new thing,» she says.

They want to look at things and say «Listen, maybe there's a better way to do it» and really get their hands dirty,» she says.

«Steve said that's when he knew Apple had to get really good at metal.

But ditching solid state in the first model would give Dyson a better chance of hitting its target of getting the vehicle to market by 2021, says Mr Houchois at Jefferies.

If you said, «Discharge the patient at 2:30 in the morning and send her home alone in the wintry night in a cab,» well then I've got a job for you: Welcome to today's modern hospital system.

«Whether your information was stolen in the Equifax breach or not, the best thing you can do is get credit freezes at all three,» said Mike Litt, consumer campaign director at consumer advocacy group U.S. PIRG.

Getting Disputes Resolved, by William L. Ury, Jeanne M. Brett, and Stephen S. Goldberg (Jossey - Bass, San Francisco, 1988), has a more academic tone but provides a good introduction to alternative dispute resolution, says Mary Rowe, an ombudsman at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

(«I do a very good job at getting my good students jobs,» he says.)

For example you could say, «Our competitor with similar metrics recently got financed at a $ 20 million pre-money valuation, here is why I think we're better...» Setting terms to the investor by saying something like, «I won't take less than this valuation» is the surest way to turn off a potential investor.

«We've got some very strong interest at the moment and (the operators) want to get things started as soon as possible as well,» he said.