Sentences with phrase «people engaged in their work»

«I see roads, I see infrastructure, I see the people engaged in work, there have been tremendous opportunities, equal opportunities, and there are more schools and people are studying than in the past,» Luis Ayala, Secretary General of Socialist International said on Friday.

«A good way to do this is by attending seminars, workshops, or other presentations that allow you to see the person engaged in their work,» says Evans.

LL: So an example of the first is that we are exploring the benefits of people engaging in this work within real, intact, ongoing work - teams, where each person's progress means a lot to the others in the group, and where they can hold each other accountable and celebrate the value of the changes that do occur.

Not exact matches

If someone sees a fellow employee doing solitary work in a designated do - not - disturb area, it's an unwritten rule that they're not to engage with that person.

Wujec loves to engage people and teams by having them draw how to make toast because in doing so, the process reveals unexpected truths about how we can solve our biggest and most complicated work problems.

Of the thousands of people engaged to work on the programme, few of them will ever have been on a Games committee in the past.»

Cuban went on to voice his support for programs such as AmeriCorps, which engage young people in public service work across the United States.

Employees have a voice in this organization and it creates a culture where people are engaged in work, regardless of tenure or function.»

Prevent works in much the same way the YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program works — a group of people (12, in Omada's case) take classes, engage in challenges, and generally support one another with the help of a health coach for several months to a year, with the goal of losing 7 % body weight and preventing the onset of Type 2 diabetes.

She is a firm believer in the power of giving her employees purpose, freedom, ownership, and recognition as a way to engage people to do their best work:

Gallup surveys show that when people have positive interactions and close friends on the job, they will be significantly more engaged in their work (not to mention more productive and effective) than those who do not.

But it's the firm's efforts to engage its people in meaningful work that have helped it achieve a 95 % voluntary retention rate and earn a spot on the Aon Best Employers in Canada list for 10 years.

Ante Glavas, an associate professor with a specialization in organizational behaviour at Kedge Business School in Marseille, France, says employees of companies that promote social responsibility tend to feel more connected to their work: «They are more engaged, because instead of leaving values at the door when they leave home, they can feel like they are doing something good that aligns with who they are as a person.»

Not only are they a waste of time and money, but they keep people from engaging in tasks that might be far more productive — and profitable for the businesses in which they work.

[My forthcoming book, EQ, Applied, illustrates just how choices like these make a dramatic difference in building employee loyalty and keeping people engaged at work.]

Troy says 5 years ago he had never heard of «venture capital» yet when I've seen him be interviewed before or even in our discussions he uses industry terms in technology and venture that display a sophisticated understanding of the way our industry works in a way that only a truly engaged and curious person could master in a short period of time.

The trick is to find what works, with people you care about, to engage in every day.

These people are more engaged in their work when compared to traditional job - holders, relish being their own boss and enjoy greater creativity than typical nine - to - five workers.

We seek to engage our people in ways that help them find personal meaning in their work, provide positive interpersonal support, and ensure that they are operating in a productive work environment.

Each company and person who engages in Search Inside Yourself is working to create a happier and more peaceful world.

In this regard, Relay Ventures» policy applies to all workers and extends to and includes all persons with whom a worker is engaged in a working relationship on behalf of the Firm, including all persons associated with a former, existing or potential portfolio company investment, or where any working relationship on behalf of the Firm may otherwise be involveIn this regard, Relay Ventures» policy applies to all workers and extends to and includes all persons with whom a worker is engaged in a working relationship on behalf of the Firm, including all persons associated with a former, existing or potential portfolio company investment, or where any working relationship on behalf of the Firm may otherwise be involvein a working relationship on behalf of the Firm, including all persons associated with a former, existing or potential portfolio company investment, or where any working relationship on behalf of the Firm may otherwise be involved.

«I think certainly all of these countries have engaged in activities that people feel uncomfortable with [and] are covert,» Kogan said, noting the attempts to link his academic work to Russian collusion.

«««By voting to roll back the CFPB's work, senators have emboldened banks and finance companies to engage in racial discrimination by charging millions of people of color more for a car loan than is justified,» said Rion Dennis of Americans for Financial Reform, an advocacy group.

Gallup found that close work friendships boost employee satisfaction by 50 % and people with a best friend at work are seven times more likely to engage fully in their work.

The outcome will be a better leadership team of engaged people who are not only accountable for their work, but also who see opportunities for themselves and are willing and excited to participate in the ownership of the business.

Paul Blakey from Chistian organisation «Love your Streets», which encourges people to engage with their communites has questioned the survey's accuracy anecdotally though, on Premier's «News Hour», he said: «certainly that's not my experience in the neighbourhood where I live, we all get on; the other week my neighbour's car battery died so I lent him my car so he could get to work on time».

While it's important for all of us to be engaged in the difficult, redemptive work of racial reconciliation, some people have made it their day job.

We are all engaged in holy work — the carpenter, the mama, the business person, the dad, the writer, the programmer — and we're all anointed for our life, chosen.

But the truth is, when we only choose to engage in relationship with people who are sure things, with people who fit easily into our lives, with people who don't require work, we lose something.

Of course, politics is messy, and Christians who engage in it will quickly find themselves working with people and institutions whose purposes are not gospel - oriented.

So, people who are supporting this work really are not just engaged in the physical work of getting food, but it's a peace - making effort.

It may be possible for people of the same sex or for larger groups to engage in sexual activity together, but such unions are not comprehensive: They do not work together toward the common biological good of reproduction.

It's not the abolition action people want to hear, but it is a practical and effective way to engage in counter-trafficking work.

Put simply, «high culture» requires a leisure class or, one might say more precisely, a superfluous class of people that is not engaged in the necessary work of maintaining the material basis for society.

Murray shows that if people at the bottom of the economic ladder have high work satisfaction, are married, experience levels of social trust, and engage in weekly worship, they have exactly the same self - reported happiness as Belmont types who have the same qualities.

A person venturesome enough to engage in interdisciplinary work runs the risk of being tagged a dilettante by colleagues in each discipline.

This is not to say that practices ascetics engage in can not be entered into as tactics or methods: fasting, silence, vegetarianism, chanting, formal meditations, and celibacy, if freely entered into as methods (never as «good works» — for they are not such), may prove helpful for some people bent on self - purification or the unleashing of altered states of consciousness.

So - called religious people who engage in conflict with others are actually doing the work of Satan.

But Whitehead points out that the scientist who engages in this work acts as though he were a responsible person who chose to do this work.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

Every institution of education — the home, the school, the church or temple, the industrial shop or laboratory, the museum or library, the mass media — can be and ought to be an agency of religious instruction, engaged in the one saving work of emancipating persons from bondage to selfish desires and idolatrous attachments and of directing them toward the life of devotion to that in which their being and well - being are grounded.

but fortunately there are psychologists, mental health practitioners and others who do and I have benefitted greatly from their work, personal testimonies and the various articles / publications which they have produced --(for example, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; The Religious & Spiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of consciousness.

So for today's Follow Friday, I wanted to feature some beautiful siblings in Christ who are doing the hard work of telling their stories, engaging the culture, and helping the Church better understand what it means to be a transgender person of faith.

Since then, she has worked with national speaker and consultant Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, earned a Masters in Social Justice, and directed a short - term missions site on the west - side of Chicago, where she created interactive opportunities for young people to engage issues of poverty, injustice and race.

The task of the pastoral leader is not to do all of the work of the church; it is to engage all of the people in all of the work of the church.

So each person, while he was working on the wall, kept his sword close by so that if the enemies appeared, he could drop whatever he was doing, and engage the enemy in battle.

Organs of Presbyterian polity would then work in concert, over time, to engage the whole people of God in substantive matters of faith and morals before the church.

So here's my counter-thesis: The loss of a Catholic presence in mainstream literary culture is not because we are suffering from a dearth of gifted Catholic writers but because ideological blinders have prevented religious and secular people alike from perceiving and engaging the work that is out there.

One need not look far in the average workplace to find people listless in their work or human relationships, occupied but not engaged, bitter without any discernible grievance.

Broadly understood, giving alms is engaging in any work of mercy that benefits neighbor, which includes «whatever is necessary to a person in need.»