Sentences with phrase «of talking to them in person»

How she gets FSBOs to listen: She makes a point of talking to them in person, armed with a detailed full - color marketing plan.

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So, instead of worrying about it, concentrate on what you want to communicate, such as asking good questions, not engaging in time - wasting small talk, and looking people in the eyes.

Do you talk with them (or a sample of them) in person or via phone to really get their voice, their concerns, their passions, their frustrations?

Ask a person to picture a leader and almost always they will imagine someone in front of a crowd talking.

«You learn a heck of a lot when you talk to people not in a formal setting, not in a roundtable discussion, not in a town hall meeting, but just when moms and dads are shopping at a grocery store,» she says.

And it's a break from the past: Gathering the 50 smartest people in an industry together in one room to talk shop is not necessarily something that would have happened during the highly competitive Mad Men era of big advertising.

He says he recently attended one of the largest industry trade shows, Mipcom, and ended up talking to the same people he'd last encountered six years ago, most of whom were still thinking in terms of selling programs region by region to established channels as opposed to «worldwide deals for rights to be exploited via the Internet anywhere.»

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

Former U.S. nuclear submarine commander Captain David Marquet has a fabulous short talk in which he urges those who really want to bring the best out of their teams to quit following unhelpful stereotypes of «leadership» and do everything possible to empower their people instead.

And I think the subject that I would talk about mostly is a level of compassion and empathy that we need to try to recognize that the only way our society and the promise of America and the American dream can continue to exist is to ensure the fact that those people who were at the lower end have the same opportunity that people have with the right ZIP code in America.

We talked to a lot of people who had never invested in e-commerce and ones who were scared of a tangible, inventory - based business model.

When this would come up when I was in provincial politics, or even when I was a talk show host, [you knew] that the federal safety authorities are not going to allow to remain in place rules that are harming the health of people.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

Unfortunately, few finance ministers are brave enough to talk plainly about what people actually pay in taxes and receive in government transfers or what they think is a «fair» distribution of the tax / transfer burden we all share.

When she first started talking about how the school needed to become more diverse, she says, «I was surprised to find out the meme around Harvey Mudd was that we are a merit - based institution and bringing in more women or people of color would mean lowering our standards.»

I won't talk this morning about the 13 lives that were lost, or the more than 100 who were injured, when a 22 - year - old terrorist rammed his van into a crowd of pedestrians strolling along Las Ramblas in Barcelona this summer — nor will I mention the 86 people who were killed in Nice on the evening of Bastille Day in 2016, when a mindless thug drove his cargo truck into a mass of celebrants who had gathered to watch fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais.

«I was trying to explain, in response to a question about the election, that my limited understanding was that the President talked to a portion of America like an accessible person they could relate to, as he was NOT a politician.»

While Abudulai agrees it's generally women and people of colour who wind up having to bring diversity issues forward in the workplace, she's still happy to talk about them.

To put these requests in context, I must have received thousands of calls, letters and emails from people looking to talk or meet on a variety of issues and topics, including hundreds from outside the United StateTo put these requests in context, I must have received thousands of calls, letters and emails from people looking to talk or meet on a variety of issues and topics, including hundreds from outside the United Stateto talk or meet on a variety of issues and topics, including hundreds from outside the United States.

«We try to instill in people that we talk to that they're going to be important, they're going to be a part of a cohesive team, and the software that we helped create really does make a difference in the world.»

Because as Scaramucci advises in the Big Think video: «I think you can really see people's intentions by the way they talk to other people and their level of civility.»

Then I started to think of it in terms of probability, which is when that poker craze happened — at least in Canada — where poker became a thing and people were talking about odds and stuff.

She checked the price of a item to bring home to her kids and, after talking to a sales person, she suddenly turned pale in the face.

As Nicholas Boothman, speaker and author of How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less, explained in one of his talks, «when you like someone you see the best in them.

There are those rare occasions when those of us who do it get out and actually, y ’ know, talk to people involved in games.

One of the pluses of being knee deep in writing my next book is that I'm getting to talk to a lot of fascinating people.

United (UAL) has refused to appoint Bethune as chairman, ending months of talks with the funds in early March, the source and two other people familiar with the matter said.

Phrase your talk track in the context of the people to whom the credibility belongs.

A lot of people find it very hard to talk about themselves, and in some cultures it is frowned upon.

«My parents» friends and I talk about how this occurs a lot in our lives, of people wanting to touch our hair,» Opiah says.

Such talk once seemed paranoid, but in light of Edward Snowden's allegations that intelligence agencies used back doors to snoop on people and governments, it's hard to dismiss it as such anymore.

I almost could have jumped on this one until I started hearing people overuse it in the most mundane of places, including talking about «pivoting to the next meeting topic.»

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

Walk through Home Care Assistance's Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters and you'll find an energetic group of people, most of them in their 20s and 30s, talking social - media campaigns and brainstorming ways to improve the user experience.

People would talk about the founders of the organization, how they were stuck on the side of Mt. Baker in a storm and there was nowhere to buy their gear, so they came up with the idea of opening MEC.

In this installment, I talk to the Founder of «Miracle Messages,» a San Francisco nonprofit reuniting homeless people with family they haven't seen in yearIn this installment, I talk to the Founder of «Miracle Messages,» a San Francisco nonprofit reuniting homeless people with family they haven't seen in yearin years.

Get in the habit of talking to as many people as possible, about as many things as possible.

Turner: One of the things that people in the industry often talk about when it comes to money management is this barbell, where as you said you have low - cost, passive index tracking funds and at the other end you have higher fees, higher active share, things like private debt which you mentioned, and it's those in the middle that are charging higher fees for something that looks quite a lot like beta that are really going to struggle.

In a sign of market interest, the longest portion of the offering, a 40 - year security may yield 1.45 percentage points above Treasuries, down from initial talk of 1.6 percentage points to 1.65 percentage points, said the person, who asked not to be identified as the deal is private.

In 2014, Jim Carrey delivered a commencement address to Maharishi University of Management in Iowa that people still talk about to this daIn 2014, Jim Carrey delivered a commencement address to Maharishi University of Management in Iowa that people still talk about to this dain Iowa that people still talk about to this day.

I'm talking about the behavior in general which trickles up and it comes from the niceness of the American people, say in the Midwest, and it goes all the way up to the top.

When I did my MBA, I interviewed hundreds of women and spent a lot of time doing digital anthropology... going to chat rooms and getting people to talk to me about things they wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable talking about in person.

Lots of people talk a good game about supporting mom - and - pop retail and wanting their communities to stay the way they once were, but in practice, they're busy and they like having products cheaply and reliably delivered to their door.

We're not talking earnings in the billions of dollars from multinational, multi-industry conglomerates anymore - we're talking about the ability for people to work together in harmony, understanding and mutual respect, along with cooperation.

«There are lots of people who were as liberal as I was in the military, and like in the rest of America most folks in the military are probably less ideological than talking heads would ike to think they are.»

But make no mistake: The kind of lewd talk heard in the video could get you fired in many work environments — even if the remarks aren't about the person being spoken to.

In fact, when people talk informally, 65 percent of the time they are telling stories, according to research by evolutionary biologist Robin Dunbar.

«Out of all the people we talked to, she had the most enthusiasm, the most resolve in terms of her vision for what she wanted the company to be, and she did the most research,» says Dan Gallo, president and CEO of Mentor Communications Group and one of the judges of the recent competition.

Executives of the company, which allows its more than 100 million users to send messages that disappear after a few seconds, are in advanced talks with fund managers, the person told Bloomberg.

In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn'In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn'in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn't.