Sentences with phrase «leading change in any environment»

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«With an ever - changing business environment, our economic plan aims to help our businesses adapt to the new technological reality and foster the competitiveness of Quebec to attract investment for leading players,» he said in a statement.

If you want to attract top talent, improve employee retention rates, reduce employee absenteeism rates, lead change, offer more inspiring customer service, turn passion into action, and inspire your employees through a dynamic work environment you need to invest in your leadership development.

All of this could easily change when U.S. markets open, when investors ponder the new and more volatile environment they live in, when traders decide they do not want to bear risk over the weekend, or when a weekend of pondering leads to a wave of liquidations on Monday morning.

There's also $ 135.4 million (over four years, starting in 2018) to the two lead departments, Environment and Climate Change Canada and Natural Resources Canada, for «policy, communications and engagement» for the climate plan.

Continuing in this vein, Whitehead then argues that for a society to maintain itself through a changing environment, it must be «unspecialized» in the sense of being resilient and flexible in its responses to the world, with the consequence that an unspecialized society is also likely lacking in the strong structural characteristics that would lead to an intensity of satisfaction.

Around the age of 12 for girls and 14 for boys, developmental changes will enable youth to slowly increase training distance and duration leading to participation in a systematic and competitive training environment.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Stakeholders» input was integrated into development of A Healthy Start for Minnesota Children: Supporting Opportunities for Life - Long Health, a theory of change that depicts how public understanding, health in all policies, and community innovation lead to 1) safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments and 2) social and economic security, which in turn will help the state achieve its ultimate outcome — that every Minnesota child, prenatal to age three years, will thrive in their family and community and achieve their full potential regardless of their race, where they live, or their family's income.

The Conservatives under Mr Cameron are currently leading the polls as the most trusted party on the environment, although the government has now agreed to Tory and Liberal Democrat demands to introduce a climate change bill in the Queen's speech this month.

To lead in safeguarding the environment, the climate change bill will make Britain the first country to legislate legally - binding cuts in carbon emissions.

The environment was largely ignored until the last minute; it took a revolt in Cabinet led by Ed Miliband, the Climate Change Secretary, to secure some safeguards.

In a letter to the chairman of LAG, environment secretary Liz Truss MP said the report «did not show that the impacts of lead ammunition were significant enough to justify changing current policy».

«The Governor has led the nation in combating climate change» and the campaign welcomes «anyone to this critical effort as we work to protect our environment for future generations and create a cleaner, greener New York,» she said.

It provides access to the technical and business intelligence needed to get ahead in today's disruptive, fast - changing environment, and cutting - edge educational and training sessions covering the most advanced applications and technologies, all presented by leading industry speakers.

Anticipated changes in the environment due to climate change may lead to mass migrations of people on a scale never before seen.

Study lead author Dr Christopher Doughty, from the Environmental Change Institute in School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, said: «Tropical rainforests have been popularly thought of as the «lungs» of the planet.

«We now have an independent measurement of these emission sources that does not rely on what was known or thought known,» said Chris McLinden, an atmospheric scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Toronto and lead author of the study published this week in Nature Geosciences.

PhD student and lead author, Lauren Welbourne, said: «What we are finding is that between seasons our vision adapts to changes in environment.

«Regardless of whether you're in a closed or open environment, there's always a constant exchange of microbes between a host and their environment, and that constant exposure has impacts on health; for example it can lead to changes in a host's immune system that help the host stave off pathogens,» said Argonne's Jack Gilbert, an author of the study and the director of The Microbiome Center, a joint Argonne, University of Chicago and Marine Biological Laboratory program.

Jason Grumet, the Obama campaign's lead energy and environment advisor, has indicated that the president - elect plans to move quickly on getting climate change legislation through in 2009 and working to make the U.S. a leader on mitigating global warming.

Other bodies, such as the European Environment Agency, have said it is likely that rising temperatures in Europe will change rainfall patterns, leading to more frequent and heavy floods in many regions.

«Cooperation between the default mode network, dorsal attention and the frontoparietal control networks is key to controlling internal trains of thought and achieving tasks in changing environments,» said Kihwan Han, Ph.D., study lead author and post doctoral research associate at the Center for BrainHealth.

«This underscores that large, sustained changes in global temperature like those observed over the last century require drivers such as increased greenhouse gas concentrations,» said lead author Patrick Brown, a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«We were drawn to this collaboration because in spite of the different environments, cultures, histories, climates and identities of the two regions, we were asking the same kinds of questions about human capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

«Totten has been called the sleeping giant because it's huge and has been seen as insensitive to changes in its environment,» said lead author Chad Greene, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG).

Professor Horne is a leader in research and practice on urban issues, leading more than 100 industry - linked research projects on the built environment, urban sustainability and social change since 2005.

«The focus of chemotherapy and existing standard - of - care is on killing cancer cells but instead we took a completely different approach which changes the environment the cancer cells live in,» said Mick Bhatia, director and senior scientist with the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute, who led the group that performed the study.

«Our actions can substantively change the environment and, in turn, the changing environment influences the incentives for future action,» said Joshua Weitz, who led the study and is a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Biological Sciences and director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences.

When a person moves in an environment saturated with wi - fi signals from routers, laptops and mobile phones, that movement creates a slight change in the frequency of those signals, says lead researcher Shyam Gollakota, a U.W. assistant professor of computer science and engineering.

A high resolution description of the structure and dynamics of proteins is a very useful tool to study the properties and the function of these important biomacromolecules and, most importantly, to understand how changes in sequence or environment can lead to disease.

He is one of the world's leading researchers on synaptic plasticity in the brain and has pioneered new optical methods of observing the structural changes in the living brain as it adapts to its environment.

Molecules in the extracellular environment bind specifically to cell - surface receptors and trigger intracellular signaling, eventually leading to changes in cellular physiology.

«The UMI highlights the need for new imaging and omics technologies, such as those currently being developed at PNNL, to understand how microbes function and interact in complex environments and how they are impacted by climate change and other perturbations,» said Jansson, who also leads the Microbiomes in Transition initiative at PNNL.

How savvy our genes are at tweaking the way we respond to diet or environment changes can keep us in robust health, or lead to ill - health which ultimately ends our life.

NASA has learned that spending time in the low - gravity environment of space leads to significant changes to the body.

The program will convene leading faculty and school leaders to discuss how they can best position their schools for success in a rapidly changing environment.

However matters, such as the state and importance of young people's mental and physical health and our stewardship of the environment, are changing our understanding of how we are constantly being «values led» and altering our behaviour patterns so as to be more in alignment with what is important to us in life.

A change in lifestyle and diligence is the only natural way that determines each of our health to thrive against the toxic environment in and around us and to lead a complete physical, emotional, mental and social well - being.

Inspired by the Earth Charter's call to involve children in changing earth's destiny, Green Cross Japan, led by its Chief Executive Officer, Tsunehiko «Tom» Kawamoto, established a global program to teach school children «not only by lecture, but by action» on ways to protect, conserve and sustain the environment.

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

And our country leads the planet in worrying about jobs and employment — perhaps not a wise use of time, since the employment environment changes so unpredictably — but this anxiety is not going to evaporate during my tenure.

I think the second step is that if, or once, we convince people that there's a need for a change, we need to create an environment which is risk - free so that the people who are doing the change, the courageous leading - edge instructors in institutions are okay if not everything works out fine the first time around.

My guest on The Research Files this month is Wes Imms, Associate Professor in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and Lead Chief Investigator of the Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change project.

Tapped in 2012 to lead a turnaround of the failing 652 - student school, Brengard and an almost completely new staff launched a new project - based learning environment and set about changing from the top down the culture of the school, which he said was «in a rut» because teaching had become so hyper - focused on standardized testing outcomes.

Dr. Bryan O'Black leads Project ACE (Advancing Classroom Education), a multiphase effort to change the culture of learning in the district, which includes supporting principals to grow as instructional leaders through a summer Principals» Technology Academy and empowering students to take more ownership of their learning in a one - to - one environment.

Lisa works with other professionals in education to understand what is changing in their environments and what she can do to help, and she leads her organisation to develop solutions and support that will help make a positive difference in the academic outcomes of learners across Australia.

Understanding how individuals and organizations respond to change and how various personal, cognitive, and work environment factors affect those experiencing change gives those leading, facilitating, or participating in professional learning the ability to differentiate support, tap educators» strengths and talents, and increase educator effectiveness and student learning.

As director of technology for Pelham School District in New Hampshire, she is leading a digital transformation to a 1:1 Chromebook initiative in grades 3 — 12 that not only changes how students access content but changes how teachers will teach in a more personalized environment.

A decision to use these scores for evaluations might in itself change the schooling environment in ways that could lead to different results.

What are the key mechanisms through which the project's coaching and / or training activities lead to changes in leadership, teaching, the working environment and culture of the schools and eventually student learning?