Sentences with phrase «higher sense of purpose»

Goal: create connected, global learning communities for adolescents in which they feel a higher sense of purpose for their lives.

Goal: create connected, global learning communities for adolescents in which they feel a higher sense of purpose for their lives.

However, when paired with images, they can evoke a concrete picture of what the company does, what it's like to work there, and appeal to a candidate's higher sense of purpose.

They are more likely to experience a higher sense of purpose when they possess internal reasons to do their jobs because those reasons are not easily replaced or transferred elsewhere, and are central to how employees view and define themselves both inside and outside of the workplace.»

In our own experience of employing these ideas, we find that we enjoy more positive emotions and a higher sense of purpose and productivity.

Scientists say that people who have a higher sense of purpose in their lives have a reduced risk of stroke and death.

After they were banned from the NCAA tournament a season ago, coach Kevin Ollie held the Huskies together by giving them a higher sense of purpose.

In the early 1520s, Luther's preaching against the power of the Roman Catholic Church served as a rallying cry, helping give these peasant revolts a higher sense of purpose, and providing them with a language of spiritual and political critique.

According to Hsieh's widely read book Delivering Happiness, companies with a higher sense of purpose outperform others by 400 percent.

According to the study by Drs. Randy Cohen and Alan Rozanski and colleagues at Mt. Sinai St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital, New York, «Possessing a high sense of purpose in life is associated with a reduced risk for mortality and cardiovascular events.»

To see that Still, infamous for his unwaveringly high sense of purpose, valued matter of fact notation is refreshing.

Not exact matches

Flourishing denotes a state of wellbeing characterised by experiencing positive emotions and enjoying high levels of engagement, positive relationships, a strong sense of purpose and a feeling of accomplishment.

The mission the community decides upon must appeal to a higher, long - term sense of purpose, but for a community to work the collaboration needs to produce immediate benefits for each set of constituents.

According to well - established research lasting motivation does not happen with incentives, but rather when employees (1) feel a sense of achievement, (2) have choice and the ability to participate on their own terms, (3) have opportunities to interact with others, (4) feel connected to a higher purpose, and (5) have fun.

«And finally, a higher purpose — the sense that what we do matters and serves something larger than our immediate self - interest — is a uniquely powerful source of motivation,» Schwartz and Porath write.

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

A believers motivation is high and shaped by a strong sense of purpose in life, their motivation is rooted in the scriptures as evidenced by those high performers.

(Nov. 9), «What to do with nuclear waste is a problem that requires a moral examination precisely because it is so filled with uncertainty that we dare not resolve it without some sense of a higher purpose at stake.»

To attack someone's decision to call (believe) in a higher being or sense of order / purpose is self - righteous and arrogant.

High grid, low group organisations are typically dictatorships and moribund or ossified religious groups where rigid control mechanism dominate all relationships but with little sense of personal belonging or communal purpose, so internal pressures can eventually be explosive.

At the highest level of intensity the subject's sense of importance may be dominated by its purpose.

«Nevertheless, the medical implications of living with a high or low sense of life purpose have only recently caught the attention of investigators,» Rozanski added.

However, common sense will tell you that binge - eating on junk and high - carb foods on regular days completely negates the purpose of fasting twice a week.

By spring of 2007, they quit their full - time jobs to design a program that would foster three values they believed were common to great change - makers throughout history: a sense of purpose, a capacity for humble learning, and higher - order empathy.

«And a key component is students are going to campus with no purpose and direction around their learning, with no sense of what it means to be an adult, and so students are getting lost in destructive behavior because they don't have the support to step into a higher ed community.»

• Boost the employment prospects of disadvantaged youth via high - quality career and technical education programs • Help their students develop «performance character» — particularly drive and prudence • Offer a full suite of well - organized extracurricular activities (to help build those all - important non-cognitive skills and to keep kids off the streets) • Most importantly, give their students a sense of hope and purpose

I saw an opportunity to do something noble in purpose, something that would give me the sense of commitment to a higher calling that led me to my 31 - year career in the Air Force.

Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.

Building on this already dysfunctional approach is the sense that the primary purpose of each grade level is to prepare students for the next grade level: We have to get these students ready for high school!

Such a testing program makes more sense to me than grade level testing for high schools, it can be used for accountability purposes such as API and AYP, and it follows a fundamental principle that «instruction must precede assessments» for good alignment of assessments with instruction.

What if all students graduated high school with not only content knowledge, but the habits and skills to successfully navigate college and career, with a sense of purpose to anchor them?

[Mario Wynands] We decided to include a high level setting and story to give the game some context and a sense of purpose.

Any job (high - paid, low paid, it does» t matter) will make you feel like the ape in the suit if there's no cultural fit, if there's no alignement between you, the company and the position you occupy, if there's no higher purpose or sense of mission behind it.

During the late Victorian era in Britain the academic paintings, some enormously large, of Lord Leighton and the Dutch - born Lawrence Alma - Tadema were enormously popular, both often featuring lightly clad beauties in exotic or classical settings, while the allegorical works of G.F. Watts matched the Victorian sense of high purpose.

This outcome, in turn, positively impacted the staff's sense of a higher purpose.

If the purpose of your earlier post that I commented on, was not to imply that your use of the term «false» equated to outright research misconduct via dishonesty, then why do you, here, defend yourself using two high profiles examples of exactly that very thing??? This makes no logical sense at all.

To a growing extent, we are losing our sense of direction and purpose: neither fish nor fowl, neither institute of higher learning nor professional training college.

And, in my experience, balancing a shared sense of purpose with a good degree of autonomy helps to drive the high - performance culture we all strive for.

Qualifications and Skills / Experiences · Bachelor's degree, or 1 - 3 years of relevant administrative / office support experience · Experience supporting chief - level / C - Suite executives in a demanding, high - paced corporate or legal setting a plus · Excellent organizational and time management skills and an understanding of systems and procedures · Fierce work ethic and sense of purpose, with the ability to work well as part of a dynamic start - up · Highly effective interpersonal communication and writing skills · Highly proficient in Microsoft platform (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Google platform

Recently, De Caroli & Sagone (2016) deepened the differences between the affective profiles in the dimensions of resilience and psychological well - being factors in Italian adolescents, underlining that adolescents with self - fulfilling profile reported higher resilience (sense of humor, competence, adaptability, and engagement) and psychological well - being (autonomy, purpose in life, and self - acceptance) than adolescents with the other affective profiles.

The Help Guide (2016) describes emotionally healthy people as having a sense of contentment, a zest for life, the ability to deal with stress and obstacles, a sense of meaning and purpose in life, flexibility to learn and adapt, a balance between work and play, the ability to create and maintain relationships, and self - confidence and high self - esteem.

We all deserve happiness and contentment life and to have a sense of higher purpose.

The people who scored high on a test that measured sense of humor for social purposes, coping humor, and appreciated humor and humorous people were considered more trustworthy.

In fact, creating shared meaning is the highest level of Dr. John and Julie Gottman's Sound Relationship House, which is a model on how to have a healthy relationship in which a couple can intentionally create a sense of purpose together.

The sense of grace, higher power and deeper patterns of meaning and purpose can serve the counseling process over a wide - range of issues, from «mental health» ones to those broader ones having to do with life, death, love and meaning.

Research finds that parents who are married experience more happiness and less depression than parents who are unmarried, as well as reporting that their lives have a sense of purpose in higher numbers than their unmarried peers8.

High - level alienators possess a single - minded sense of purpose only found in the most driven individuals.

Purpose: To enable small associations with limited revenue to keep their identity, local practices, and sense of community, but receive a higher level of essential services.