Sentences with phrase «n't given a task»

Why not give them a task to do?

In case you haven't given a task to this specific dog, it will look for other things to do like destroying some plants or messing up the garbage.

Not exact matches

In this case, you have two tasks you don't want to do, but you cast one of them as a more palatable alternative to the one you should be doing, like having to complete two reports but giving a final edit to one of them instead of writing the second.

Give your Millennial employees various responsibilities within their given positions and don't limit them to any one or two particular tasks.

«On that dangerous theory, the government is secretly blacklisting people as suspected terrorists and giving them the impossible task of proving themselves innocent of a threat they haven't carried out.»

Focusing on one task at a time won't work if your phone is consistently interrupting you with personal texts or the latest ballgame scores, so productive people give themselves the gift of momentum by eliminating distractions from immediate surroundings.

But if you are giving the employee task - focused comments all the time, positive and negative, the annual review becomes a non-event, and their performance shouldn't need a radical shakeup.

So Mark Carney can fairly claim not to have botched the task that was given him, with the caveat that the task he was given was easier than those facing his counterparts in Washington, Frankfurt and London.

If your boss only gives you menial tasks well below your level of experience or competence — such as «busy work,» it's a sign they don't trust or respect your abilities (or worse, that they are actively encouraging you to look for work elsewhere), says Taylor.

If you fall a bit short in one place or are not able to give a different task your all, things tend to work out just fine.

She said a male colleague who became her boss disempowered her and assigned her low - level tasks that he didn't give to men.

«I didn't always give myself permission» to think about life beyond the immediate task.

It would not be an uncoordinated free - for - all; the community, for the most part, would need to agree on the direction the project would take and on who would be given responsibility for a task.

For those not familiar with the concept, a case competition is an event in which teams of business students (typically four per team) are presented with business scenarios and tasked with giving a presentation, recommending to a panel of judges (playing the role of a board of directors) how the company should deal with the crisis.

Have you been given the unenviable task of managing employees who just don't respond to your requests or are passive aggressive in other ways?

In the protocols of Silicon Valley, CEOs don't give product demos unless their guest is a dignitary on the level of a U.S. president; it's a task ordinarily left to new hires in marketing.

Give employees more responsibility, not just more tasks.

If a leader or sponsor doesn't know exactly how you're progressing (for example, where in the given initiative tasks are stalled, how cycle times are being impacted, whether the time line is being adhered to or whether a task is in the red or the black), it's difficult to competently prioritize activities.

If you're not quite ready for your VA to contact leads directly, then give them the time consuming task of researching them.

Given that we can't slow the sun's crossing of the sky, the obvious alternative is to simply give employees fewer tasks.

While some of the tasks are pretty bizarre — one Australian woman offered $ 500 AUD for someone willing to give her a secret pasta sauce after losing her grandmother's famous recipe — Fung said the site has a number of tools in place to ensure things don't get out of hand.

Skinner recommends beginning by taking time to identify the tasks and functions you can off - load (some, like key client relationships, for instance, should not be delegated) and then systemically giving them away.

He said that making your bed gives you a sense of accomplishment, shows that if you can't tackle the small tasks, you will never get the big things right, and if you have had a miserable day, having a made bed gives you encouragement about tomorrow.

Now that you have a good idea on what tasks you can give your general virtual assistant, you are one step closer to you don't have to sweat the small stuff anymore and are well on your way to concentrate on what you do best.

If a boss gives an employee an impossible task and the employee says, «Well you want me to be successful don't you?»

Giving an intern menial tasks to perform, like making copies and doing coffee runs, isn't going to imbue a sense of purpose or engage their problem - solving skills.

This is no straightforward task, given that the new rules are not public.

At first glance it seems to be a Romney nightmare scenario: Which leads to Romney's nightmare scenario: If things don't turn around for Romney soon, those super PACs may give up on the task of electing Romney as president and turn to the task of encircling Obama's second term with a....

He would not have giving us a task that we could not handle, but we must show ourselves faithful.

«It has always been one of the most important tasks of art to give rise to a demand, the time for the complete satisfaction of which has not yet come.

And it is only God's to give, for it is based on the recognition that it is not our task to make history come out right or to save the world — through either our bombs or our peace — because, in Jesus Christ, history has already come out right.

We have stressed that in the Christian view the saved and the healed life is given in responsible and loving service in the great task of world - making, and is not concerned merely to be relieved of private burdens.

The theological task is not only to interpret given texts, but also to find the texts that are relevant in different times and places.

The transcendental is not infinite and unattainable tasks, but the neighbour who is within reach in any given situation.

These problems are for the most part theological in nature; and although the gospel is not the enunciation of theological propositions, the theology implicit in his preaching of it is of the highest significance for the pastor as he considers his task of bringing the «given gospel» to the «given world.»

Thus, like Luke, Matthew embodies in a Resurrection story the conviction of the Church that the raising of Jesus from the dead, as the Lord of all men, meant that its task must be to witness to him and to preach him as Lord to all the nations, although, as Acts shows, the realization that the gospel was meant for all nations, and not only for the Jews, came gradually as a result of further revelation, and could not have been an instruction given at Easter.

Our task is to work hard, master the arguments (scientific, ethical, philosophical, social), understand the history of how we arrived here, defy the temptation to give up through boredom, build a coherent movement of defiance, and thereby prepare if not ourselves, then at least the next generation, for the moment when the revolution collapses under the weight of its own delusions and contradictions.

The will of the clergy to give the laity a real share in the task and responsibility for the Church is still in its infancy, and the laymen themselves are not exactly wildly keen on it.

Such an alternative view of students in classroom space would call for more, not less interaction, cooperation in tasks rather than competition, a dynamic give and take instead of a unilateral telling and listening.

It is not given to everyone to have his private tasks of meditation and reflection so happily coincident with the public interest that it becomes difficult to judge how far he serves merely himself and how far the public good.

Bultmann has handed out the task of demythologizing not only to the New Testament proclamation, but also to theology, and how important that task is in his eyes may be seen from the space he gives to the discussion of a profane existential philosophy.

Haunting suspicions that things may not be what they seem are pushed from the forefront of our minds so that full attention can be given to the tasks at hand.

The really crucial task is not recommending any given set of values, but establishing the fundamental principle that there are values worthy of our devotion and suggesting ways of developing personal and social disciplines based on that principle.

Oh, the desolation of old age, if to be an old man means this: means that at any given moment a living person could look at life as if he himself did not exist, as if life were merely a past event that held no more present tasks for him as a living person, as if he, as a living person, and life were cut off from each other within life, so that life was past and gone, and he had become a stranger to it.

He takes me to task for saying, «There may be a natural law, but we are not agreed upon what it is, and there is no such law that gives definite answers to a judge trying to decide a case.»

What if God didn't want to give you a list of instructions to follow or tasks to accomplish, but was waiting on you to ask more and better questions?

Theological interpretation of scripture (when it is not burdened by large - scale hermeneutical theory or an inflated ecclesiology); historical theology (especially when animated by astonishment at the gifts which the Spirit has given to the saints through the great thinkers of the past); systematics (when it sets aside anxieties about relevance or plausibility and gives itself to the task of loving description of the gospel).

Which means what we want and what God wants might not be the same thing... So our task is to figure out why we have the Bible we have, why God gave it to us, and then align our understand of the text with this.

We might not think we are capable but we can do all things through God who gives us strength no matter how risky, scary or overwhelming the task might seem.

Given the nature of their task, it is doubtful whether censors ever enjoyed great public esteem, but it is not doubtful that they cut poor figures today.