Sentences with phrase «more productive conversations»

Dancing it out won't solve the problem, but it can help alleviate the heaviness so more productive conversations can take place.

As our nation's number of elderly people increases, we must have more productive conversations about improving late - life care.

Premarital counseling can provide you with the specific skills you need to have more productive conversations and better deal with conflict in your marriage, potentially preventing some of the challenges you may face down the road.

Additionally, this bill sets up a process of review and revision that recognizes the Legislature's ultimate authority on funding issues and can make for more productive conversations in the future.

That's why setting an intention for the event is important: It leads to more productive conversations.

Sometimes, just replying, «You know, I'm not 100 percent sure» breaks the ice and gets a more productive conversation started.

Whether you give your friends and family a rhetoric lesson before you start discussing or just keep these techniques in mind, you could use the Rogerian model to have a more productive conversation.

If you keep the focus on what their comments do to you rather than trying to convince them that they're wrong or out of line, then you're likely to have a more productive conversation.

With that starting point in place, you and your manager can have a much more productive conversation about the best way to move forward.

So let's move past the polarizing and broken debates about teachers vs. technology and start having the more productive conversation about when and how to use technology to enhance the effectiveness of our teachers.

If all the C&T bashers would turn their energy in that direction, we'd be having a much more productive conversation.

If your objection is that the law society should have implemented its EDI initiatives better, perhaps by amending the Rules first (which is incidentally also recommended by the Working Group), providing CPD around what the Statement means and is intended for, or some other means, we can indeed have a more productive conversation.

This gives you a much deeper, more significant, more productive conversation than you've ever had before — and it leads you to job offers.

Seeing the whole picture — vulnerabilities and all — can help you have a more productive conversation, says Porter.

It's going to help your relationship and it's going to get you on a better ground so that when you do come back, you'll have a more productive conversation.

Are you willing to incorporate new language or omit certain words from your vocabulary if it means you can have a more productive conversation with your partner?

Sharing with your partner the root of your anger leads you both towards a more productive conversation, the possibility of apology, and meaningful repair behaviors.

Not exact matches

Once you pass 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 60 minutes, you'll spend more time (and therefore money) repeating your questions rather than engaging in productive conversation.

It's a dead simple suggestion, but one Albrecht insists can make you instantly more likable and your conversations much more engaging and productive.

He is more productive around people than at home, but he doesn't want to be in the middle of the activity because he will be tempted to start a conversation.

And while the conversations he's having today with sponsors are more productive than when he started his agency more than three years ago, «in the U.S., we're a lot further behind.»

Even today, as I have become older and more crotchety, he is quick to force the conversation into a more productive tone.

The more pleasant conversations you have with people about anything, the more productive in the long run.

And the conversations you do have will be more productive.

And in fact, the days I feel I've improved the most as an investor are usually the days where I am away from my computer screen deep in thought, reading something useful, or having productive conversations with someone that knows more about a particular business than I do.

Of course, certain lawyers and other estate planners (your correspondent among them) will also have to turn to more productive work when the law no longer makes it easy to propose a six - figure tax - saving strategy after just 15 minutes of conversation with a new client.

Somebody mentioned chaotic conversation threads on HuffPo et al, but can anyone point out a more civil and more productive online comment thread that runs 600 comments?

Rachel Held Evans @donmilleris I agree w / readers who have suggested that it might be more productive to have this conversation in a different format.

Thanks to this amazing opportunity, the next time I attend a conference or a professional event, I will be even more prepared and even more successful in meeting the right people and having productive conversations.

Such speaker attitude is far more offensive than tone trolling and makes «productive conversation» virtually impossible.

«The Governor and AG Cuomo had a long and productive conversation today — for more than and hour — about transition,» said Paterson spokesman Morgan Hook.

«Keep agitating the conversation because we need an intelligent productive conversation, more than ever.»

Such feedback could lead to more satisfying and productive online conversations.

But if you could squash photons down to the size of a molecule, that conversation is much more productive and it happens quicker.

Gradually opening up can make family - related stress feel more manageable and lead to productive conversations in which you really feel heard and your partner feels like they are in a better position to support you.

For productive parent - teacher conferences, teachers can team up with students» families, encouraging them to take a more active role in driving the conversation.

If we consider the skills of focusing on ourselves, tuning in to others, and understanding the larger world as a framework for our thinking, imagine how the conversation about screen time could shift away from the amount of time spent with devices and toward how students might use them to become more productive citizens in a networked and global society.

There's a big difference between conversations about how to make education more productive and those that are focused entirely on cost - reduction.

Bermudez believes that this research could provide teachers more ways of engaging students in productive conversations about controversial issues without reaching a wall because a classroom conversation can't move forward.

Levinson's team has posted a number of other case studies on Justice in Schools and published still more in Dilemmas of Educational Ethics, specifically to help educators, administrators, parents, and even students themselves have productive conversations about hard decisions.

By being prepared with some clear statistics, facts, and viable training solutions, you can have a far more open and productive conversation with your CEO.

If the conversation builds into something more productive, that's a win for both of us.

-- those kinds of conversations around data can lead to much more productive work than the ones that are focused on «[let's use] data to think about how we're going to improve test scores».

And while that's a conversation that's both less exciting and more uncomfortable than the current debate in New York, it's almost assuredly a more productive one.

Not only will the conversation be more productive, but our relationships will be built on respect.

We hope these more informal dispatches help launch productive conversations and reflection.

These conversations will prepare students as global citizens, helping them expand their worldviews and become productive members of a more just and equitable society.

We hope these more informal dispatches will provide useful jumping - off points for productive conversations and reflection.

Now I allow teachers to watch the video first, without comments, rank themselves and their students, and follow - up with a specific set of questions (credit to Jim Knight) that allows for a more positive and productive conversation.

The most productive conversations, however, venture into the more challenging territory of why and how.