Sentences with phrase «performance of the previous year»

When setting sales goals for the year, real estate professionals are sometimes afraid they won't be able to match their performance of the previous year, let alone exceed it.

Not exact matches

«Twice a year, we recognize 10 percent of our staff, in front of the whole company, for stellar performance over the previous six months.

The study, released Monday, shows performance shares were used as CEO rewards by 51 % of companies surveyed last year, up from 47 % the previous year and 41 % in 2011.

But McDonald's performance in the recession was even more remarkable: sales growth in 2008 surpassed the previous two years; the fast - food giant opened nearly 600 stores; and same - store - sales have increased in each of 2009's first seven months.

That powered our top 10 picks to an average total return of 21.3 %, matching the previous year's performance while handily beating the S&P / TSX composite.

'' «Infinity War» has the added benefit of being promised as a semi-finale to 10 years» worth of franchise building, which could elevate its box - office performance even higher than previous Marvel sequels,» said Shawn Robbins, chief analyst at Boxoffice.com.

The Leadership Development and Compensation Committee offered Larry and Sergey cash awards in recognition of their performance in 2014, but as in previous years, they declined to receive cash bonuses.

Others on climate change, energy and related risks — as well as sustainability reporting on strategy and performance — account for almost another 40 percent of all resolutions, roughly the same as the previous year.

This is consistent with national survey reports from the General Social Survey where employee owners report that they have greater job security and lower likelihoods of being laid off in the previous year compared to other employees.29 When faced with recessionary pressures, employee ownership firms may retain workers to sustain a workplace culture based on cooperation, information - sharing, and commitment to long - term performance.

National accounts data record a GDP decline of 17 per cent over the first two quarters of 1998, after a flat performance during the previous year, and imports have continued to fall rapidly.

Despite what was an «extremely eventful» fiscal year, the winemaker said its performance was on track and ahead of the previous year.

Trippier impressed for Burnley prior to his move to White Hart Lane last year, and in turn he'll hope that a move away from north London is just what is required to reach those previous levels of performance again.

Embracing the challenge, the 39 - year - old Brodeur seemed to shake off the previous losses and his recent history of playoff failures to deliver a vintage performance, as the Devils coasted to a 4 - 0 victory behind Brodeur's shutout performance.

When trying to answer the is - this - real question, the first order of business is to compare the current year to previous performance looking for substantive change.

Further, places in the draw for the group stage are allocated not on the basis of whether a club happens to have won a title the previous season, but on their UEFA coefficient, a rolling points average based on a team's performance in all European competitions over the last five years.

The strong performance was achieved through organic growth with key contract wins coupled with solid customer retention across its four business divisions, as well as the impact of acquisitions from previous year.

Labour kept the seat with ease, but the rise of UKIP and the Greens the previous year saw them both turn in very creditible performances of 18 % and 11 % respectively.

[93] The Labour results were described as a success, with the party building on its performance the previous year in the north of England and Wales, consolidating its position in northern cities and winning control of places such as Cardiff and Swansea.

It provides a single, seemingly straightforward measure of party performance that can tell us not only how well or badly a party has done as compared with four years ago, but also as compared with any previous local elections for which a PNS is available — even though the places in which local elections are held varies considerably from one year to the next.

«In spite of the reduction in the headline numbers, the Group's performance for the year 2017 witnessed an improvement in core operating performance over the previous year after adjusting for the significant foreign exchange revaluation income enjoyed in 2016.

Suspicions were raised of potential malpractice when figures published by the ambulance service showed a dramatic improvement in performance, with 28 out of 32 ambulance trusts in England meeting the target, compared to just three the previous year.

Unlike previous years, Ghana recorded a lot of new faces on the nomination list; some of whom Included new actor, Joseph Otsiman who got the nod for Best Actor In Supporting Role for his performance in the drama thriller film, The Cursed Ones directed by Nana Obiri Yeboah, who was also nominated for AMAA 2016 Award For Best Director category.

Commenting on the primary school performance tables released today by the DfE, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has consistently highlighted to Government the serious problems with the reforms to primary assessment, particularly the impossibility of comparing data for last year with previous years due to changes introduced to the testing system.

In my earlier post about Gordon Brown's performance at his press conference on CentreRight, I also mentioned that the Prime Minister failed to answer Ben Brogan's question about whether or not he would honour Tony Blair's previous promise to give David Cameron and the shadow cabinet access to the civil service as of the New Year.

At a follow - up months later, these gains were maintained and in one of the studies, involving two teams that had losing records the previous year, both had winning seasons following mindful sport performance enhancement.

A 38 - year - old female professional / elite triathlete (and medical doctor) of 13 years presented with decreased performances in the Ironman triathlon, alongside a number of physiological ailments during training and competition over the previous several years.

That studio plummeted to last place in 2012 thanks to a disastrous performance in all markets that saw Paramount collecting less than half of its previous year's revenues.

Like last year's subpar «The Conjuring» spinoff «Annabelle,» this direly routine ghost story marks a huge comedown in production values and performance quality from the series» previous entries (which earned a combined $ 258 million worldwide), despite the presence of longtime Wan collaborator Leigh Whannell behind the camera and always game - faced elder scream queen Lin Shaye in front of it.

The film pivots on Julie Andrews's inarguably excellent performance as Maria — she not only sings with great skill and charm, but no doubt also brought lots of audience goodwill and a useful aura of maternal efficiency from her performance in Mary Poppins the previous year.

One of the awards season's premier events, the SAG Awards ® celebrate the outstanding motion pictures and television performances from the previous calendar year.

The film's technical innovations are probably familiar at this point — a blend of photo - realistic CGI and the performances; minutes - long shot lengths that'll rival the extended takes in Cuaron's previous picture; being designed in 3D from the ground up — and it's certainly one of the most anticipated of the year for many.

Though I still think the Academy dropped the ball in some areas (Best Actress, in particular, could have been a far richer and more diverse race had the likes of Sally Hawkins and Kristin Scott Thomas been invited), it's true that, while 2008 hasn't been as rewarding for auteur works as some previous years, we've seen a lot of films either wholly constructed around their performances («The Wrestler» being a prime example) or saved by them (for my money, Anne Hathaway and Rosemarie DeWitt are the most focused elements of «Rachel Getting Married»).

Over the last 10 years of his career, actor Jake Gyllenhaal has kept himself busy with unique roles that have allowed him to show off his talent, with each new creation contrasting nicely with the previous performance (one of the only interesting things about Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time).

Teachers participating in the study saw gains of 20 percent on AP test pass rates when they adopted the Knowledge in Action PBL curriculum when compared with the performance of their students from the previous year at the same school using a traditionally taught curriculum.

Our fundamental findings from an analysis of the 3rd - and 4th - grade data for these two years indicate that the performance of students identified for retention, regardless of whether they were retained or exempted and promoted, exceeded the performance of low - performing students from the previous year who were not subject to the retention policy; and students who were actually retained made the larger relative gains.

The proportion of students receiving a free school lunch, the proportion of students who are white British, student performance on the age - 11 test in the prior year, and the school's inspection rating from the previous inspection round are all similar, on average, in the treatment and control schools.

Because he has a full understanding of the school's energy data provided by the Carbon Culture website, this enables him to keep track and compare performance with previous years.

And because of targeted teaching and the tech - enabled rigor used in the analysis of results, Neal maintains that his time spent on admin and marking has decreased by almost half, while class performance on assignments have increased by approximately 15 % compared to the previous year when edTech apps were not regularly incorporated in class or for homework.

SGPs calculate how a student's performance on a standardized test compares to the performance of all students who received the same score in the previous year (or who have the same score history in cases with multiple years of data).

an index of 100 that may be incremented annually, as the commissioner deems appropriate, or progress in relation to performance in the previous year; and

The Times analysis relied on a statistical approach known as «value - added,» which estimates the effectiveness of teachers by crediting them for the gains students make over their performance in previous years on standardized tests in math and English.

I gathered NAEP scores on fourth - grade math performance from the US from 1990 to 2013 and linked them to data on how good of a holiday season was had in the previous year (operationalized as consumer spending in November and December as measured by the ICSC - Goldman Sachs index).

Chief executive of The Future Leaders Trust, Heath Monk, explained: «The decision to include only first entries, the removal of many vocational qualifications and the use of comparable outcomes to cap GCSE performance have created a situation where this year's results can not be compared to previous years.»

This two - page document effectively gives the simple snapshot of a school's performance in the previous academic year, and provides quantitative details about factors which contribute to a school's overall performance.

What percentage of students at grade level on a previous year's assessment declined in their performance?

Assemblyman Jose Solorio, D - Santa Ana, authored AB 1166 in response to a practice implemented in the Anaheim Union High School District that required students to carry school ID cards and notebooks in one of three colors based on their performance on the previous year's California Standards Tests.

In the latest release of data, we have a sense of how much progress students show on state assessments from one year to the next (as it's been two years since the last time we had growth data, here's a quick reminder on how it is calculated: a student's performance on the test is compared to her «academic peers» — other students who had the same test score she had the previous year, resulting in the individual's student growth percentile.

After one year, the data indicated that almost 50 percent of students entering 9th grade were reading at grade level, and student performance in mathematics, science, and social studies continued at levels comparable to previous years.

A subgroup's pass rate during the previous year exceeds the current year's AMO and the subgroup meets the current year target and is within five percent of performance during the previous year.

Yet the small minority of requests put in by candidates who were not present for an exam — sometimes due to illness, according to the report — were less likely to be approved than in previous years because a candidate's performance can no longer be predicted due to the lack of prior modules.