Sentences with phrase «good at conflict»

This study also found hope for those of us who might not be so good at this conflict recovery stuff.

Data from over 900 participants indicates that individuals higher on these dimensions were better at conflict management and resolution, were more dedicated to the relationship, had more self - control, had more positive interactions, and were more satisfied.2 That is, individuals who score higher on this scale should be able to control their impulses (i.e., avoid kissing random people behind their partner's back), they should pick up on signs of relationship problems earlier, and should more carefully weigh the pros and cons of starting a long - term relationship, or deciding to move in together.

Gordon and Chen found that couples who use «affection, humor, or effective problem - solving» are the best at conflict.

«To get better at conflict, you have to learn how to talk to each other emotionally,» he says.

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

With any expenditure aimed at bettering employees, the environment, and community instead of maximizing profits for shareholders, there arises the conflict between shareholders and corporate social responsibility.

Knowing them better would benefit you.Assign them roles and responsibilities accordingly, so conflicts and dissatisfaction's don't arise in the first place.Convey this to your managers or supervising staff too.Also, spot who's good at what, and make these strengths work in your favor.

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Best quote: «Once you learn how people's past family life and their work behaviors connect at a core level, you'll know where performance problems originate and conflict starts.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Emotionally wrenching politics, foreign conflicts and shootings at home took a toll on Americans in 2016, but they are entering 2017 on an optimistic note, according to a new poll that found that a majority believes things are going to get better for the country next year.

But in our rush to turn every conceivable conflict into a colossal one, we've forgotten what disaster films, at their best, can offer.

(In 2011, Cenovus Energy let on that output from two of its in situ oilsands projects could meet the standard, which mandates that crude oil imported to the state have lower wells - to - wheels emissions than the average of all crudes sold in the U.S.) «Yes, I think that's feasible,» says George Hoberg, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia who specializes in environmental conflict.

But it could very well backfire for Boeing, the aerospace contractor ostensibly at the heart of the conflict:

If you work at Amazon, you'd better be comfortable with conflict.

Good managers can identify which situations will cause conflict, which they are skilled at overcoming.

Prodding your people to be less conflict adverse can lead to real benefits, according to Thompson who cites recent research that shows, «brainstorming groups that engage in open debate, challenging each other in benevolent ways, perform better than groups that don't have any debate at all.

«If you look at conflict, it has a direct relation to gender equality, a direct impact on climate, a direct impact on cities... so I love that we're thinking about it as a cohesive subset which will allow us to build better opportunities.»

We can applaud the courageous perseverance of Assistant Secretary Phyllis Borzi and her team at the Employee Benefits Security Administration, as well as the efforts of many professional organizations and consumer groups, for bringing the «conflict of interest rule» this far.

In remarks at the AARP on Monday, Obama stressed the importance of imposing a cohesive standard mandating that all brokers and advisors working in the retirement space act in their clients» best interests to guard against conflicted advice that could harm investors.

Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez stated at the AARP event that «when it comes to financial advice, conflicts of interests can lead to bad advice and hidden fees that too often keep us from getting investment advice that's in our best interest.»

So, maybe you can do a few experiments at work and see if there's a way to de-escalate workplace conflict and live a better life without reading a workbook or watching a webinar.

At this point in time fiduciaries may be among the minority in the profession, but there's one out there who will surely look out for your best interests without conflicts — and who is willing to sign a legal document stating as much.

At a higher level, franchises offer support for things like conflicts that fall under the responsibilities of the human resources department, cash flow solutions, as well as any logistical problems that may arise.

And according to an article in the Journal of Conflict and Security Law by David Fidler, a professor of law at Indiana University, the current international law is «not well positioned to support responses to terrorist cyberattacks,» and there are no «strong incentives» for states to develop international law against this threat due to the relative dearth of these occurrences.

Employees now have much more access to be productive than ever before, from any with high - speed Internet, and at what times of the day they work best; these shifts will ultimately will allow employees to reduce conflict between their professional and personal work lives.

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.

The dangers of serving as enlisted military personnel are well known at times of conflict, especially while on active duty deployment.

«When we leave at first sign of real conflict, it shortchanges God's best work in our midst.

The conflict must continue until the secular and religious groups arrive at a compromise which accepts the best in both points of view, but this will require a sustained effort to liberalize the popular concept of Islam.

If that be the case then 2 Thessalonians doesn't conflict at all with 1 Thessalonians, And if that's what your particular experts based it on, then it does go to show that the experts are not always correct, and if they are not always correct, then your total assurance of the experts you side with may very well be misplaced.

At its best, sexual fidelity is an asset to the fullness of life, but there are rare occasions when the two are in conflict, and when that time comes, the call to the fullness of life, I believe, takes priority in the Christian scale of values.

As I'll discuss at the end of my presentation, political science only does this by dint of a systematic abstraction of our lived political experience, that is, by singularly emphasizing politics as the management of a conflict of interests rather than the prudential navigation of conflicts between competing claims to honor, or of competing claims to the good.

The whole conflict seemed to give me little choice when the therapist said, «Well, I wouldn't want to come home tired after a day's work and have my wife complain about her hard day at the office.»

In contrast, worship refers to an action which is an end in itself; it offers, at best, some measure of respite from those political conflicts that threaten to tear a society apart.

Whether it be conflict from his childhood when he was raised in Muslim household, or from his time in Hawaii when his Communist mentor likely eschewed any religion, or during college bringing him closer to a community likely agnostic at best, atheist perhaps, followed by years in which he sat listening to Black Liberation Theologian Wright, his relationship with Christianity's basic tenet is uneasy to say the least.

It is worthwhile to recall that the first exercise of U.S. military power well beyond its borders was the repression of piracy by the Barbary Pirates on the high seas — not an interstate conflict at all.

Your point is not well taken most of the atheist do not hate religions at all, if the devout would just stay out of trying to run other peoples lives there would be no conflict.

But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

There was, for example, in the eighties an Interfaith Colloquium against Apartheid and there were various interfaith gatherings on ecological issues as well as interfaith prayer and work for peace, but the Parliament for a moment captured the attention of the world and sought to show, at a time of intense conflict in former Yugoslavia and of communal troubles in India, that religions need not be a cause of division but could unite on certain basic ethical teachings.

Let's take a look at the conflicted nature of Christianity and then let's have you explain how attending a Christian school would be good for a gay person:

Rollins writes, «The sheer amount of ideological conflicts playing out within the text hints at the fact that the writers were writing about a reality that could not be reduced to one description, a reality that was testified to better in the clash of perspectives than in the development of a single, finely honed one.»

Social media conflict often looks like a conversation, but in the end it can only be at best a series of public monologues.

If we were to apply Niebuhr's real politics, with its ready acceptance of the inevitability of conflict, to the present nuclear situation, it could well mean «a perverse preference for the war of mutual annihilation, simply because the war of mutual annihilation means, at least, that the other side doesn't win either.»

The other truth is that in all human conflict there is probably an element of sinful misuse of freedom and of self - assertion at the expense of the real good.

Other people tell me I'm too nice, that I avoid conflict, that I should get better at arguing and confronting, taking a stand.

If the increase among men of love of God and neighbor is the ultimate objective may it not be that many of our confusions and conflicts in churches and seminaries are due to failure to keep this goal in view while we are busy in the pursuit of proximate ends that are indeed important, but which set us at cross-purposes when followed without adequate reference to the final good?

Major re-conceptualization of causality has occurred.7 It seems at least possible that some formerly serious conflicts between theistic and naturalistic outlooks may well have become moot.

This is at the very heart of the Israeli conflict, as well as many of the conflicts in the Middle East, and most cases of genocide.

At their best, these two traditions live in tension but not conflict.

I lived through a good many conflicts which at first I denied had anything to do with sermon composition or preaching As I lived them through... I began to put a fresh and higher value on the pulpit and its varied meanings.