Sentences with phrase «people talk to people»

People talk to a person who isnt there and think that he will do things for them.

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«The late, great Stephen Covey (talk about world's best leaders) said that highly effective people «seek to understand before they seek to be understood.»

When I am done speaking, there is often a group of people that will want to come up to me to chat, or I seek out the most engaged person to talk to.

«The high - level women I talk to very consistently say they spend a lot more time than their male colleagues did getting to know people, getting to know about their personal lives,» law professor Joan C. Williams tells Fortune, seconding the idea.

And, that could be anything from, are there other people from the university that I attend who work here, could I talk to them, to what does it look like to change jobs in a couple years after I've been successful on my first project, to how long do people stay in this office?

Especially with matters of business, I'm never afraid that people won't want to talk back to me about what they're up to, or that I might offend them by asking such questions.

The talks with Walmart for what could be its largest acquisition to date are still ongoing, and a deal is expected to be clinched soon, two people told Reuters on Wednesday.

Data and research and scholarly journals are great, but people like Dale, people with a pubic platform willing to talk openly about their experiences, spread awareness and create change at a much faster rate than would otherwise have been possible.

So it helps when it is the decision makers that we are talking to, and we don't have to go through three or four layers of people to get a decision made.

Creating a discussion can really help to increase user engagement and to get people talking about your brand.

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

When we talk about qualifying people for opportunities, we need to have them have the basic tools to succeed.

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 firstPeople spend most of their time during conversations talking about their own viewpoints and tend to self - promote when meeting people for the firstpeople for the first time.

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.

«The American people, including many of my members, don't trust the reform we are talking about will be implemented as we intended it to be,» Boehner said.

It has become a replacement for actually talking to people and making sure they understand a problem.

This is just a page for each person I interact with a lot, where I jot down things I need to talk to them about as they occur to me in between meetings or conversations.

«A lot of the people I talk to will say, «I had a busy day but I don't know what I got done.»

«People I've talked to who have looked at the books — to the extent you can — of the state - owned enterprises and estimated what would be their profit margin if they had to pay market rates for their inputs is that a lot of them would go bankrupt or they would be far less profitable,» Dobson says.

Rather than having your message misconstrued via a social platform or online chat, Howroyd says you should practice «circular, complete communication» in which you always talk to people directly.

If you're really outgoing, talk to random people in the elevator, the street or public transportation.

«In the days before cell phones were commonplace, we drilled holes into the concrete and ran hard lines to telephones on each table, so people could talk to their office and do work.»

Just as I might take a closer look when I see something in the world I like (from artwork to stylized writing to a company culture): When I run across people I like, I talk to them.

Here are good questions to get people talking about themselves: What are you most excited about?

If you want to be a truly great leader, «let people talk without interjecting or commenting.

Take for example Michael Hebb, the founder of Death over Dinner, a nonprofit that brings together people — over dinner — to reflect on the consequential event that happens to us all, but that no one likes to talk about.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Team Penske, which made it the perfect time to talk to Roger about business, leadership, and what he believes has contributed the most to his long - term success: people.

We're not ditching any Constitutional protections simply because the last person the President talked to today doesn't like them,» Sasse said.

In the beginning, you will only be talking to your locals, but if you invest in a standard Facebook campaign, so that more people can come across your page.

«That's not to say people shouldn't talk politics at all.

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

Despite that, almost every insurance company I talked to was spending an incredible amount of time and money trying to get people to think about their insurance company more often.

«These people talk to 20 customers a day; that's your gold mine.»

According to the book, The Silent Language of Leaders by Carol Kinsey Gorman, Ph.D., the higher you hold your coffee, the more of a physical barrier you put up between yourself and the person you're talking to.

And talking about how to put people on more equal economic footing can be challenging to reconcile with capitalist principles of private ownership and free markets.

If you talk less than seven minutes, people won't quite grasp what you have to say.

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?

«If you're talking about somebody's willingness to do or try something, you're now focusing on their character as a person, as opposed to their preferences,» she says.

I love talking to people.

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.

«I was summoned to a working - man's cafe in London, and all around me, people were eating bacon and eggs and beans and chatting about the football scores, and I put these headphones on and I was transported into another world where Diana talked about her eating disorders, about desperate cries for help, about her loneliness, about her childhood, about her royal life, about Prince Charles.

Get out and talk to people, but listen first.

Not content to just offer drivers Spotify access, Tesla is reportedly in talks with major record labels to create a new way for people to listen to music.

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.

Every black parent has had to have «the talk» with their children, a conversation about the dangers that await them because some people might assume them to be a threat.

People used to talk about the great courage of my teams that would do these night raids, get on helicopters, and go right into enemy positions.

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.»

Act like a great journalist: Great journalists have excellent active listening techniques to get people to talk.

«The thing about his appointment that I think has not been picked up on by a lot of people who've been reporting on this is when Clarke was under consideration to be chosen at sheriff, there was not any hint from anywhere that he was a conservative,» said Mark Belling, a conservative Wisconsin talk - show host.