Sentences with phrase «just made the team»

Sexton didn't just make the team, he ended up winning MVP in his first ever international competition.

There is of course optimism and hope that he can be our version of someone like Denzel Perriman of the Bolts or Deion Jones of the Falcons but that is all it is, a hope borne out of seeing him not just make the team as an UDFA but starting and making plays.

Wenger really needs to stop whinging and just make the team play better.

It just makes the team worse.

He just makes the team play badly.

It can actually be a little challenging when you have another child to juggle, however, I just make it a team effort and it's lovely to see both my children connect through massage.

Not exact matches

I just want to say thanks to the Raptor team for really working 7 days a week to try to get this done of in advance of the presentation, because I really want to show that we've made some hardware progress in this direction, and the Raptors are really tricky engines.

Using colours cleverly is just one of the tactics the husband - and - wife team has implemented to connect employees to their «why» — a purpose that's bigger than making money.

«At our client - appreciation events, I made sure that both the front - line team [of salespeople] and behind - the - scenes team [account managers] attended,» says business coach and inspirational speaker Nancy Brunetti, who built a successful financial firm with just 10 employees.

But, at the same time, make them the heroes in your success as a team, because at the end of the day, they truly are the heroes... you've just inspired and motivated them to be up for the task!

Through the data it collects in a growing number of companies, Moss and his team hope to eventually put numbers to the value of just about any office practice or perk, enabling employers to instantly answer questions like, What would make my staff happier — free food at work or a shorter commute?

Just remember that everyone makes mistakes and the most important thing to focus on is the health and safety of the team.

Just ensure that you're not singling out the people who are most vocal and obvious about their accomplishments, as it could be the more modest people on your team who are actually making the biggest splash.

«Nobody had their cool yesterday — it was really, really intense,» Windhorst said, adding, «If yesterday went as bad as I heard it, they have to make changes just to shake things up, just to try to get the team refocused.»

When you're hiring someone new for your team, make sure you do more than just assess their skills.

The Daltco team has opted to make its aim not just to grow sales but to do so profitably.

If you are a business leader or entrepreneur and your team is primarily working from home or locations other than the office, keep watch to make sure that they are collaborating — your employees should not be just a list of e-mail addresses or instant - messaging contacts.

Just make sure you set your team up for optimum collaboration and that each team member knows their role in the big picture.

New hires know just how important it is to make a good first impression early in their tenure, but it's also important for companies to put their best foot forward for their newest team members.

The team out of the University of Toronto that developed the quiz took a dead simple approach to the project — just ask a bunch of volunteers to describe exactly what makes a person charismatic, weed out duplicate answers, and then ask other volunteers to rate the suitability of these suggestions.

However, if you clearly state your expectations, make your team accountable to one another (not just you or the company) and offer employees the power to make decisions, you can get on the right track.

My company would not be what it is today without the people around it, and I find the most important element of my job is making sure my team has everything they need to do the best job they can — whether that's tech tools or just my support and trust.

Whether it's coaching a kids» sports team like the CEO of Insureon, playing a regular game of pickup soccer like celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson, or extending a standing invitation to your friends for a Sunday evening supper like Huckabee, all the successful people profiled in the book plot out their weekends in advance (though not every minute; just a few «anchor events,» as Vanderkam dubs them) and make active use of the hours they have.

Tips to keep meetings from gobbling up your team's days are all over the map, including forcing employees to pay for the time they use out of a set budget of «credits» — or just making everyone stand up.

She says the protocols are just tweaks to what her team is already doing, but without the test, they would have a tougher time knowing which tweaks to make.

Adding not just new troops to the team, but the right troops, can make all the difference.

That's where you need the regulators to come in and say, hey guys, you all need to just pause and make sure this is safe... You kind of need the regulators to do that for all the teams in the game.

Whether this takes the form of regular alerts and notices to recent scams sent out by HR, IT, or your information security team, just make sure there is a culture of security and awareness at your organization, because at the end of the day, as Peter Drucker famously posited, culture beats strategy every time.

In an ideal setting, your content marketing team would function like a hive, with all team members contributing just the right bits to make an excellent whole.

«I wish someone had really told me, «Forget everything else and just make sure you get the most amazing people on the team,»» Cassidy says.

For a guy with just 10 full - time employees and a science team made up largely of grad students and consultants paid in company stock, Reynolds exudes a surprising amount of swagger.

As the team made its case to Steinberg, one of his minions took its written presentation into another room, «worked out a detailed set of responses, and delivered them to me just as [the team was] wrapping up.»

But while more and more businesses are dipping a toe into the employer brand water, there are three key things to avoid to make sure the project is successful, your team are empowered, and it's not all just a waste of time, money and energy.

He mentioned he had just read one of my articles (one of the first ones I had written for this column) and was fascinated by the correlations I made between the culture of the U.S. special - operations community and building high - performance teams in the business world.

The list goes on, and they can be as customized to your own set of morals, too, just as long as it makes sense for your team.

When you're selecting team members to join your startup or small business make sure you pick someone who shares your vision and is just as enthusiastic as you.

I do think that not just the next CEO but also the management team we leave behind have to be completely determined to make sure that culture gets stronger and stronger,» says Smith.

It's hard to believe that just two guys could make a PlayStation Vita game that's better than those pumped up by giant development teams, but that's what Jonathan Mak and Shaw - Han Liem did.

In the enterprise landscape, digital literacy is not just about tool competence, but about how well users apply their knowledge to make decisions, cultivate relationships, build a reputation, and mobilize colleagues, teams, communities, and networks.

At that time, Phelps had a big decision to make: did he want to aim for the Rio Olympics by focusing just on winning slots on relay teams, or did he want to achieve more?

I'm not saying that you should withhold appreciation, but to prevent your team from becoming a bunch of entitled whiners who want a prize just for showing up in the morning, make sure they earn it, and make rewards unpredictable.

Flush with cash, Cuban started making a range of investments, most notably, forking over $ 285 million on January 4, 2000, to get a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks, a team that had just completed its 10th losing season in a row.

Just as no single great athlete can make a team successful, difference makers also need to be surrounded by talented players.

«Our teams are focused on making Instagram a kind, welcoming place for everyone and we're just getting started,» Systrom wrote.

Allowing a team to move at a pace that works for them doesn't just lead to more efficient processes, it instills the sense of camaraderie and pride in one another that makes the experience so rewarding in the end.

He anticipates that many employees will opt in to 2G Tuesdays — 2G Mondays just didn't sound nearly as catchy, he jokes — to get a better understanding of what the internet feels like for people in different parts of the world and to help report issues and make suggestions that his team might not have thought of.

Just as a doctor makes recommendations to a patient for proactive preventative care purposes, you should be helping to guide your team member to career objectives.

Don't just do it to make your team look different.

We work hard to help our sponsors build B2B relationships with other companies, we take care of their customers at the racetrack, we take them behind the scenes and make them feel like not just a part of our race team but also of our family.»

After years making slick commercials and music videos, Bay's first feature film didn't just bring a new spice to the buddy - cop movie with the teaming of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.