Sentences with phrase «good leader of projects»

If you're not a manager yet, a good leadership program can not only prepare you for a future promotion, it can also help you be a good leader of projects or working groups, which will help make you a better candidate for that promotion.

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«I was the type of person that had no problem following the boss or leader in the room, but working on school projects, I realized I had really good leadership skills.»

The most well - known type of crowdfunding is the Kickstarter variety, where a project leader requests a donation in exchange for a reward, such as participating in the project or receiving a product.

As a part of Inc.'s annual look at the best industries for starting a business, we decided to highlight the niche sectors that are projected to grow during the next few years and that don't have an industry leader dominating the market.

«The single most obvious sign that you've become a «shipper,» not a leader, is a telltale breadcrumb of failed or good - as - failed projects.

Create new alliances and role models: One of the most interesting and visionary proposals during COP21 was Bill Gates» project, «Mission Innovation» supported by President Barack Obama as well as 20 countries and 38 prominent business leaders and investors.

The proper course, it seems to me, is for church leaders and people of good will to make every effort to connect the human - rights project to an affirmation of the essential interplay between individual rights and democratic values.

Well, some of this is me projecting onto the lesser of two evils, but not everyone wants a constant reminder of the faith of our leaders.

Merle M. Ohlsen describes group counseling of adolescents and children in schools.9 Helen Driver reports on two groups for high school seniors, three groups for college students, and four leaderless teachers» groups.10 The second part of Driver's book reports on forty - four projects using small groups in elementary, high school, college, and graduate professional schools (as well as mental health settings), as described by the leaders of each group.

Even though I did not receive teaching from a Church setting but rather from a marketplace ministry setting where they taught us «Externally Focused Church, Organic Church, which was really a good thing (new wine skin initiatives) but when we implemented and embraced it, we found that its not quite effective and in the end the leaders abandoned the project and most of us were in the dark on what is the next good program or system to follow.

«Cocoa has been well known since the Aztecs but the science behind the physical behaviour of cocoa powder is only just emerging,» said project leader Igor Bodnar of NIZO food research.

By Russ Gager company profile DenSuccess Inc. www.densuccess.com Projected 2012 revenues: $ 65plus million Headquarters: Apex, N.C. Employees: 1,900 Specialty: Denny's franchising Carl Ferland, founder / owner: «I am blessed to have some of the best leaders, management teams and support staff in the industry.»

Furthermore they implement projects, with global and regional partners, which facilitate conversion to Organic Agriculture, empower local stakeholders and strengthen supply chains as well as help raise consumer awareness and shape the future of the organic sector by training a new generation of leaders through our Organic Leadership Courses and other services.

For example, two years ago, when we first began identifying potential sites around the Philippines for our multi-location field trials of Golden Rice varieties, one of our considerations was that the local government units and other community leaders should be well - informed and interested in the project and willing to support the conduct of the trials.

Participate in hands - on, family - friendly service projects, enjoy live music and refreshments, and hear words from local community leaders and Activate Good to wrap up this fourth annual community - wide day of service.

In the Changing Childbirth in BC research project, a steering group of women of childbearing age from different cultural and socio - economic backgrounds engaged multiple stakeholders, as well as leaders from NGOs, researchers, and community agencies, to examine women's experiences with maternity care in British Columbia (BC).

That project mainly benefits Long Island as well (capacity for more service) but there is a fierce NIMBY campaign against it in western Nassau County (not his district but he has been the leader of the L.I. Senate delegation).

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins in an interview on Capital Tonight on Monday suggested some changes may be supported in order to accommodate concerns raised by local governments as well as the expected infusion of infrastructure projects due to be proposed next year.

Similar arguments are rehearsed each time the state undertakes a major construction project: contractors say the makeup of the workforce is dictated by the construction trades, who in turn say they are making their best efforts to diversify, while minority leaders say not enough is done by way of outreach and recruitment.

Though «operations managers, supervisors, trainers, project specialists and team leaders, as well as staff in the areas of information technology support, data entry and quality assurance» were cited in Hein's December 2012 release, the majority of jobs at the Ulster location involved data entry, keyboarding and clerical tasks.

The governor basked in the applause of the city's mayor and legislative delegation, as well as business leaders and the developers who will actually bankroll the $ 300 million project.

The incoming Democratic Senate minority leader joined Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, and Amtrak Chairman Anthony Coscia at a breakfast of the Association for a Better New York this morning to discuss the status of the Gateway project.

«The leaders of the House of Representatives will do well to focus on their primary constitutional duty of making laws for the peace, order and good government, and performing oversight role on spending of public funds rather than engaging in inherently execution functions of designing and executing projects This will enhance the operation of the sacred principle of separations of powers and the ability of the House to properly hold the executive to account for spending of public funds.»

Speaking on project execution, the group leader said the youth are convinced that the South East has benefited from the administration, citing the example of the recent award of the building of the Second Niger Bridge to Julius Berger Construction Company as well as other road projects in progress within the region.

«The Green Electronics Council was looking to build capacity in green electronics by honoring thought leaders and highlighting them as an example of the good work that can be done in this space, making this project a great match for our office,» said Christine Burgess, RCP project director.

Report co-author Martin Grueber, research leader for Battelle in Cleveland, Ohio, says that the criticized input - output model is the best way to try to «get a big - picture sense» of the research done by the Human Genome Project.

Constructing a thoughtful integration of EU science policy with respect to broad issues (like the desirable balance between basic and applied projects) and narrower ones (like stem cells) is a task worthy of the best efforts of its science leaders.

At the LMB, we aim to train the scientific leaders of the future: we seek the best students, give them rewarding research projects and provide a supportive environment with access to world - class facilities and experts.

«To operate the grid more efficiently and keep fossil reserves at a minimum, operators need to have a better idea of how much wind and solar power to expect at any given time,» says Malte Siefert, a physicist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology in Kassel, Germany, and a leader on the project, called EWeLiNE.

«In ornithology, the more eyes and ears, the better,» says says Margaret Barker, leader of the project at Cornell.

Before making this accomplishment, the team spent 20 years of planning, designing and construction, as well as overcoming many hardships such as suspension of the project due to the damage to the nearly completed system caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, encountering a serious worldwide shortage of helium supply, and the sudden passing of the team leader.

We asked Paul Alivisatos, deputy laboratory director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and a leader of their Helios solar energy research project, to explain how people capture energy from sunlight and how we can do it better.

Péter Ábrahám, research advisor at Konkoly Observatory and the leader of the Hungarian MATISSE project emphasizes that «the successful Hungarian contribution to MATISSE shows a good example for a synergy between high - tech instrument development and world - class scientific research using the most powerful astronomical instruments.

His last great film after a series of memorable, iconoclastic works — «Shane» and «A Place In The Sun» being the best from the Fifties — Stevens seemed to search for Message projects; a need perhaps traced to his role as leader of a crack film unit during WW II, which photographed the first arrival of Allied troupes in Nazi concentration camps, in colour.

Each panel of student projects also received open feedback, and interchanged with discussants, including experts on education and entrepreneurship from across Harvard, as well as entrepreneurs and leaders from local and international businesses, consulting companies, colleges, and research centers.

Called XQ: The Super School Project, the campaign is meant to inspire teams of educators and students, as well as leaders from other sectors, to come up with new plans for high schools.

«A capstone of this kind of project - based learning is to invite the students who have produced the best work to present it to an authentic audience of leaders of thought and practice, and receive feedback from them,» Reimers says.

Agency by Design (AbD), a multiyear research initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Project Zero, is investigating just these questions — chronicling examples of maker - centered learning across the country, gathering thought leaders, and reviewing literature in order to position the trend within a context of best practices.

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Cambridge, MA (October 5, 2015)-- On October 5, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University will release findings from the Best Foot Forward project, an initiative testing whether video technology can help address the challenges faced by teachers and school leaders in implementing classroom observations that are part of teacher evaluation systems.

The MPX section of the school website includes links to other projects and activities we have done as well as links to blogs that give you a up - to - date view of the work our leaders and learners are doing — challenges and successes, their reflections about their work and the process involved in rolling up our sleeves and trying to do authentic problem - solving.

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty and leaders at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada — about their satisfaction with the amount of time they spent on service, the nature and impact of the work, and the discretion they had in choosing the projects they served.

In the spring of each year families are invited to the launch of the project at an informal lunch at King's to meet the partnership leaders as well as our own staff who are involved in the project.

Example projects: Ms. Hassel co-authored, among others, numerous practical tools to redesign schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When?

«Leaders of all stripes understand that our best bet is for all sectors — including business, government, education, nonprofit, and labor — to work together to rebuild the commons,» said Jan Rivkin, a professor at Harvard Business School who co-chairs the school's US Competitiveness Project.

The research for this project has encouraged collaboration with curriculum and technology leaders and has resulted in a better awareness of the role of school library media specialists and school libraries in meeting the academic needs of students.

Essential Job Functions - eLearning • Produce dynamic, technology - enabled learning in eLearning, mobile and virtual delivery formats • Act in coordination with L&D consultants, business leaders and other managers and staff to identify eLearning needs, then match them with innovative self - paced and blended learning design solutions • Curate the best eLearning content to match requirements set by L&D learning consultants • Consult with members of the L&D Team and business leaders to deliver high - quality eLearning experiences that are instructionally sound, creative, visual and engaging through consultative design • Create and maintain tools for helping L&D team and business leaders to implement e-learning design projects in a consistent way • Stay up - to - date on eLearning techniques, gaming technology and e-learning technology in order to curate and develop innovative «PlayStation quality» learning experiences for employees • Effectively outsource eLearning development, when needed, or use multiple development tools to design, create and deliver in - house developed, self - paced (or blended) eLearning content (using tools like Articulate, Storyline, Captivate, Brainshark, etc.) • Ensure learning content adheres to specifications for mobile, virtual and desktop learning as well as brand guidelines and industry best practices, where appropriate • Work with learning consultants, instructional designers and business leaders where appropriate to create user instructions, FAQs, and other documentation that support effective use of the LMS.

As well as our teachers and school leaders, all of our people are passionate about education — from accountants to researchers and from analysts to project managers.

Every year, Project Tomorrow — an education nonprofit dedicated to «ensuring that today's students are well prepared to be tomorrow's innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of the world» — conducts a survey of students and stakeholders designed to gather input and opinions on education, technology and 21st Century skills.