Sentences with phrase «of conversation points»

So just relax, go armed with a few fun or interesting stories about yourself and remember that you can use your environment and where the date takes place as a source of conversation points too!

He spoke to a number of developers about likely release dates with most of the conversations pointing to a 2020 release.

Not exact matches

Teasdale points to a recent Harvard study which underscores the scale of the problem: People spend most of their time during conversations talking about their own viewpoints and tend to self - promote when meeting people for the first time.

In April 2014, a few Bank of Canada economists published a short paper that should be the starting point for every conversation about the state of the economy.

Next time, make a point to stop the conversation and ask about the point of confusion.

The conversation was described as light - hearted and short, but vigorous — with White House officials pointing to a broader strategy behind the thinking of not firing the director.

The silliness is spreading: A colleague of mine pointed out that the New York City Ballet recently had an installation on its promenade, with signs asking patrons to «Curate the Conversation.»

A single event might be a talking point, the conversation will die down within a week if it's not a regular part of the company's offering.

And that point — an important nuance lost in the clutter — alludes to what Mast told me at the beginning of our conversation when he explained why he got into the chocolate business.

To her point, practically speaking, most female leaders I encounter also have this view of gender conversations.

Metaphors also make for memorable conversation and help others to digest your point of view.

The point is to get engaged with your customers; open yourself a personal account, have conversations and become acquainted with the norms and expectations of the community.

She was still building the fund brick by brick — but now, when she had conversations with prospective investors, she could point to Kimberlin's and Butterfield's names on her list of limited partners.

So from a single conversation he can create a video published on YouTube and SlideShare; a blog post; a podcast (published on iTunes); a syndicated podcast (published on a PR network); social messages (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Google + and LinkedIn); a series of tweets (Twitter); and a collection of key points or messages in the form of a curated e-book.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

As Albrecht points out in a recent Psychology Today piece, all conversations are composed of three parts — declaratives, questions, and qualifiers.

To emphasize this point, in the past year I've published a book, spoken at Google, maintained one of the most popular business podcasts on iTunes, and am having serious conversations about creating a television show about my life.

At that point in the run of «Breaking Bad,» Odenkirk wasn't even sure if the show or his character would make it to season three, given its low ratings and the fact that it wasn't yet at the top of pop culture conversations.

McCabe also pointed out the remarkable nature of Trump's version of his conversations with Comey.

A public letter that outlined seven discussion points to better facilitate these types of conversations was primarily authored by Vanguard chairman Bill McNabb, who is also the chairman of the CECP's Strategic Investor Initiative.

The successful sales professional will begin all conversations from the prospective client's point of view.

Straight size vs. plus size: it's a conversation that has frothed to the forefront of the modeling industry in recent years, but according to filmmaker Jenny McQuaile, it misses the point.

In a conversation with Rolling Stone magazine in one of the lowest points of his career, Steve Jobs said this: «Technology is nothing.

In a recent conversation about the difficulties that black women face in the professional sphere, Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceived.

Feedback is extremely important, and a lot of time can be saved by a single conversation where someone points out, very clearly, something that isn't «working.»

Forrester recently put a spotlight on this issue by pointing out that content marketing that's not informed by sales conversations and easily accessible to sales teams is a waste of budget.

Conversation is impossible over the thunderous drone of the convenience - store - sized helicopter, and it's beside the point, anyway.

This conversation is also a good point of reference for the employee in case «you worded the letter more harshly or more leniently than you intended to,» Williams says.

Well, research shows that on average, people tend to talk about themselves during 60 percent of a conversation — and when there's something being sold by one person in the conversation, a less experienced salesperson could be tempted to fill a void of silence with a laundry list of more selling points and value propositions.

Investors representing nearly 20 % of Jazz's shares have held talks with the company's top executives and board since the beginning of the year to voice their views, though the talks have accelerated in the past several weeks, the people said, adding that conversations with management remain friendly at this point.

It's a point of pride, according to Horn, that ScriptSave has no limit on how long a conversation with a customer can last.

A big difference is that we're local, and I think we're coming to a point where a conversation is starting — and it's going to be a long conversation — about the role of companies in the communities where they work and their responsibilities to those communities.

«Flynn had been forced to resign the day before, and the controversy around Gen. Flynn at that point in time was centered on whether he had lied to the vice president about the nature of his conversations with the Russians,» Comey said.

So make a point of raising this the next business day, when your concerns are still fresh in your mind, and make sure you're prepared for the conversation.

What's the point of trying to talk to a new client if the conversation is so boring they won't remember it anyway?

With the NRA and NRA - backed politicians becoming a focal point of the conversation around gun control, people and companies are standing up to say «enough» as they join in the rapidly growing NRA boycott.

Instead of jumping straight into a conversation, or snoozing through bullet - pointed sentence fragments in a slideshow presentation, he requires his senior executives to write six - page narrative memos.

The video is an example of an «Attack Hook», which is designed to bluntly present a point, with the hope of drawing traffic and conversation.

As I had these conversations with the programmers and entrepreneurs who are most deeply involved in Bitcoin, I encountered a quiet but widely held belief that much of the most convincing evidence pointed to a reclusive American man of Hungarian descent named Nick Szabo.

We've had some market volatility this year that we've seen that may make some investors uncomfortable, but the reality of it is, the conversations we were having up to this point is, make sure you rebalance your portfolio to make sure that you're not taking on too much equity risk, and that your asset allocation is aligned to meet your goals.

Couple points — I think having different ideas of what content marketing is is fantastic... I love the conversations coming from that... but when someone comes out and says «content marketing is this, this and that» and it's absolutely not true, I think we are doing a disservice to the entire marketing profession.

Things get quite technical at a few points and I wanted to ensure everyone enjoyed this conversation but providing a little bit of context with that 20 - minute introduction.

When applied to B2B companies, it involves providing the sales team with the high - level content, training, analytics, feedback, buyer personas, insights, industry data, email workflow, integration between marketing and sales, understanding of pain points, and resources they need to have more successful sales conversations with prospects.

Your 4 points also add a lot of value to the conversation.

I was engaged in a helpful conversation with an Inc. 500 head of sales in response to my article pointing out the differences between buyer profiling and buyer personas.

Your fit rate is calculated by determining the number of meaningful conversations (or, better yet, the number of sales qualified leads - SQLs) that your salespeople need to talk with to get to the point where you're able to make a proposal (or formal request to buy).

As you can see, conversations about medical ethics can get complex and circuitous very quickly (like many socio - political issues do)-- which is precisely the point that most of us miss.

When I have conversations with my kids (or anyone) about such things as sex, abuse, basic decisions... I try to approach it from a «pro-con» point of view.

At one point the protagonist, John, has a conversation with History in which History informs him that the Landlord (God) has sent «pictures» of Himself to many of the pagans in the land who live apart from Mother Kirk (The Church).

Is it so wrong of me to have faith that only one person believes in the drivel that he's posting rather than think that another person a) actually thinks that chad is making good points and good enough points to post and b) go to the 62nd page of an almost defunct article for a conversation that has nothing to do with themselves other than to cheer on a stupid post?