Sentences with phrase «reaching group consensus»

However, reaching group consensus with stakeholders and aligning on a solution can be tricky.

NSCS instills in its 21st century learners personal habits important in the work place: accepting responsibility for personal decisions and actions; honesty, courage, and integrity; leadership; a healthy lifestyle; empathy, courtesy, and respect for differences among people; reflection; self - confidence; concentration and perseverance; responsible time management; assuming a fair share of the work load; and working cooperatively with others to reach group consensus.

Working cooperatively with others, which includes the ability to listen, share opinions, negotiate, compromise, and help reach a group consensus

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«That's what brought 43 members together as a block of the Problem Solvers Caucus,» said Reed, who noted that each of these provisions managed to reach consensus among at least 75 % of the group — the threshold necessary to be included in the collective proposal.

No one is allowed to leave the room until the group reaches consensus, or at least agrees to disagree.

Using such insights as a guide, the group then reaches a consensus on where the company wants to be in five years.

If a consensus is not reached between the two (or more) groups it could even play out that Bitcoin becomes forever split into two essentially different currencies sharing the same origin.

Earlier today, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said he has no plans to visit Vienna on Wednesday, but Russia is ready to talk with OPEC once the group reaches an internal consensus

We may be efficient in the use of natural resources, or in the generation of a law - abiding public, or in reaching consensus among antagonistic groups, or in moving toward a more egalitarian society.

Just four years later, a group of concussion experts meeting in Zurich, adopted the minority position of the Prague experts, reaching a new consensus, one which considers concussions in sport as a single entity with a range of «modifying factors» instead of being classified as «simple» or «complex.»

:) I don't think the patriots tossing tea in the harbor had each «group» write a statement, or reach consensus, or any such nonsense — no, they took matters into their own hands, literally.

«Instead of reaching out to union leaders to gain consensus on an affordable housing program that ensures middle - class wages for workers, (de Blasio) coordinated with a lobbying group — led by billionaire developers — to run an anti-union campaign that would lead to unsafe job sites and a low - wage workforce,» The Greater New York Laborers - Employers Cooperation and Education Trust and the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation said in a joint statement.

The author group included individuals from a large spread of nationalities and scientific and institutional backgrounds, but consensus was easy to reach, says declaration co-author Charoula Tzanakou, a research fellow at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom who investigates gender balance in academia.

Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the issue has been debated for many years, and the groups» coming together marks a «very major significant step» in reaching consensus on an approach to avoiding deforestation.

In Addis Ababa, the Bellagio Group reached a consensus on the following statement and recommendations for action.

To see if the insects reached a consensus about where to gather (an indicator of group personality), they tallied how many insects were beneath each disk at the end of the experiment.

An example would be that the restriction on coal production at 3.9 billion metric tons in the period 2011 to 2015 was set after the China National Coal Association, which comprises state coal producers such as Shenhua Group, Datong Coal Mine Group and Yanzhou Mining Group, reached consensus.

Since smaller groups are more likely to reach consensus, the researchers said, it would be better for a subgroup of countries to come to a consensus on its own and then bring that single proposal to the larger group.

They found that groups of 10 or less could usually reach consensus, but groups of 20 or more were far less stable.

Simply interacting with individuals who are different forces group members to prepare better, to anticipate alternative viewpoints and to expect that reaching consensus will take effort.

It wasn't until last year that astronomers reached a consensus on the identity of Sgr A *, thanks to the work of two independent groups of investigators.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) Product Approval Protocol Task Group (PAPTG) reached consensus to initiate retroactive registration of the Sequence IX engine test.

ACC's Product Approval Protocol Task Group (PAPTG) reached consensus to initiate retroactive registration of the Sequence VH engine test.

ICAO works with the Convention's 192 Member States and industry groups to reach consensus on international civil aviation Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) and policies in support of a safe, efficient, secure, economically sustainable and environmentally responsible civil aviation sector.

Each term was defined by experts in the field, discussed and, if necessary, modified by the Working Group before reaching consensus approval.

Eventually, the board reached a consensus on many issues, including how to draw up petitions and verify signatures, satisfying groups as diverse as Parent Revolution and the California Teachers Association.

At first, the group of 14 experts — who also included Bridget Terry Long, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Donald Saleh, senior vice president for enrollment management at Syracuse University — did not expect to reach a consensus, but instead to make several broad proposals, said Ms. Baum.

In addition to reaching out to the groups individually you will want to build a process for reaching consensus.

So, as the debate rages on, a consensus on ability grouping and tracking is difficult to reach.

In studying Ancient Greece, teachers form groups of five and have their students reach a consensus on who should be the new patron goddess or god of the fictional city - state Dasteinia.

Despite reaching a consensus on their findings, many researchers within the NICHD group debated the implications of this work, wondering whether the effects they found were even large enough to be of concern.

Even thought this group of non-federal stakeholders failed to reach consensus, we are pleased to see they came together behind the idea of tying teacher preparation program quality directly to the student outcomes of their graduates.

But critics of the idea pointed out Tuesday that despite the efforts of an advisory group gathered under the leadership of the LAO over the past year - no consensus has been reached over how best to revise the program.

For example, even though every student has a device, I might group students together in clusters of two or three to engage them to reach consensus around an academic challenge.

Rosenthal said the group did not vote on the candidates, but they reached a «consensus» to move Guitterrez and Elsey forward in the selection process.

And while there's no consensus, a wide range of groups and people are exhibiting cautious optimism that the draft bill released Tuesday could be the first step toward reaching a bipartisan deal in an otherwise gridlocked Congress.

In light of the working group's failure to reach consensus on crew size, the FRA took action today to move forward with a rulemaking.

ICAO works with the Convention's 191 Member States and industry groups to reach consensus on international civil aviation Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) and policies in support of a safe, efficient, secure, economically sustainable and environmentally responsible civil aviation sector.

Under the terms of the constitution fresh elections were conducted in December 2005, but the three major ethnic groups voted along ethnic lines and no consensus was reached.

On the one hand we have this original group who went into the field because they happened to be interested in the subject, and prior to any consensus being reached on the danger of ever rising GHG emissions.

Despite reportedly strong diplomatic efforts by the German presidency, and support from across Engagement Groups, no consensus could be reached on the matter.

One bigger group that tries to reach a consensus would be less likely to have an open mind and dig more deeply into the alternatives.

The SBI did not manage to reach consensus on the 2014 - 15 budget nor on the Consultative Group of Experts (CGE) and the plenary could not conclude at 5 am due to lack of quorum.

The work was divided into «spin - off groups» which each had their own facilitators and these groups had to negotiate, compromise, and reach «consensus» on their specific topics under the ADP.

Rather than imposing sound scientific principles on IPCC, United Nations allowed IPCC to be governed by: — the unscientific principle to: «concentrate its activities on the tasks allotted to it by the relevant WMO Executive Council and UNEP Governing Council resolutions and decisions as well as on actions in support of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change process» (§ 1)-- the unscientific principle to: «In taking decisions, and approving, adopting and accepting reports, the Panel, its Working Groups and any Task Forces shall use all best endeavours to reach consensus.»

A group of glacial - epoch experts, meeting at Brown University in 1972, reached something close to a consensus.

The draft conclusions from the Advanced Working Group on Long - Term Cooperative Action (AWG - LCA) REDD - plus negotiating text are similar to the previous version from the last round of talks in Barcelona, the so - called «non-paper 39», but negotiators this time around have removed brackets (in UN speak this means consensus has been reached) from the principles (paragraph 1), scope (paragraph 3), sub-national approaches (paragraph 7 and 13) and social and environmental safeguards (paragraph 2).

In a letter participants received in September, we were informed that «the Working Group is instructed to continue its work towards elaborating a non-binding descriptive document reflecting elements of an ODR process, on which elements the Working Group had previously reached consensus, excluding the question of the nature of the final stage of the ODR process (arbitration / non-arbitration)».

Since a consensus on adoption comprehensive B2C ODR rules seems impossible to reach, the UNCITRAL has therefore decided to redefine the scope of the Working group's mandate.

Rather than to throw in the towel, UNCITRAL decided to redefine the Working Group's mandate to «elaborating a non-binding descriptive document reflecting elements of an ODR process, on which elements the Working Group had previously reached consensus, excluding the question of the nature of the final stage of the ODR process».