Sentences with phrase «sit around a conference»

If your team consists of only two or three people, you really don't have to sit around a conference table for every meeting.

A couple of weeks later, 12 people — eight men, four women — sat around a conference table with a moderator, while Carl, our editor, and I looked on from the other side of a two - way mirror.

At the April 17 meeting, about 25 employees sat around a conference table while others joined by video from New York, Dublin, Mexico City, Washington and elsewhere.

Unlike when employees sit around a conference table, and space is clearly segregated, standing created a shared working space.

Whenever a meeting doesn't require PowerPoint or other presentation materials, invite your coworkers to join you on walking meetings rather than sitting around the conference room.

Sitting around his conference table just days before their merger finally closed, in mid-October, Watts agrees.

Why companies are getting serious about reducing the time people spend sitting around the conference table.

«Basically everyone thinks they should be a consultant, giving thoughtful advice and sitting around a conference table.

Mr Laws says of the talks with the Tories: «We sat around a conference table surveying each other with the surprise of people who had known each other for years and suddenly found themselves at the altar, having never quite seen the possibility.»

I can almost see Time's editors sitting around the conference room table in their crisp shirts — frozen by the possibility of offending subscribers in red states or blue states, or both — finally throwing up their hands and turning the whole conundrum on its head: If these pesky Internet - blogging readers are going to give us hell no matter who we choose, why not just choose them?

A good chunk of the season is devoted to vampires — creatures who can, in the «True Blood» - verse, run like The Flash, fly, and fuck like pornstars — sitting around a conference table debating politics and religion, and the other «super» groups don't exactly pick up the slack, what with the werewolves holding auditions for a new pack leader and the faes throwing slumber parties with their new BFF, Sookie.

There's a scene in which Hoffman, Moore and Jeffrey Wright (returning as gadget guru Beetee) are sitting around a conference table in the District 13 war room, strategizing with Lawrence as Katniss, which feels way more substantive than it might through the sheer presence of these performers.

Mostly that was because I had to be at meetings for two different teams, but it still meant anywhere from 1 - 2 full work days a week spent sitting around a conference room with a group of people.

It's usually a bunch of marketing people sitting around a conference table tackling the target date project, but these folks usually don't know much about investment management.

Lawyers would sit around conference tables, often on weekend days, to review the status of cases.

Not exact matches

Sitting around a long conference table, the players intently watched a presentation teaching them important lessons for their future — networking, resumé - building, formulating an elevator pitch.

In her book, she references a meeting at Facebook with then - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner where the men were seated around a conference table and the women sat in chairs off to the side.

The fund's top players sit around a white conference table, armed with Apple laptops and pastel - colored cans of La Croix.

In one lecture room, Wendall Wade stands before 17 engine disassemblers sitting expectantly around two long conference tables.

The ball, in truth, was folks in T - shirts and jeans sitting around a half - filled conference room and drinking beer.

o.t does anybody on here honestly think we might try and make a move for klopp this summer are the board that aggressive enough to make the decision also wenger has not come out straight away to denied that klopp is coming to arsenal he just batted the question away in the press conference yesterday this makes me wonder if wenger is going to sit down with the board and have a chat to see what is the best way forward for the club (maybe moving upstairs to the boardroom so he doesn't have to break his contract) i am sure if certain members of the board saw this as a prime opportunity to move the club forward post wenger we will see what will happen this might be the only chance to get him as we might not be any decent manager around when wenger does retire we would probably end up with martinez instead realistically who do you think we would end up with in 2 yrs time options will be more limited me thinks and we wil have missed the boat better make it count this time coyg

Let's face it.He could hardly sit in a press conference and start slagging off Wenger could he?He just said the same old rhetoric and sound bites we have heard down the years from all of Wengers assistants and coaches on the few occasions they are let off the leashes that all his lap dogs have around their necks.And this from a Club Legend (like Pat Rice before him).

We sat around a huge table together ala conference style.

The group sat quietly around the conference table, checking election coverage on their phones.

«We could sit around dead in the water, just waiting for the unknown, or we can keep moving and keep building our city,» de Blasio said during a City Hall press conference unveiling the document.

In a building flanked by military guards, systems scientists from CALSSE sit around a large conference table, explaining to Science the complex diagrams behind their studies on controlling systems.

Sitting in the hotbed of online dating development and watching new ideas fly around the conference rooms, there are three notable shifts in online dating that companies are taking in 2015.

When he's strutting and strolling around the office, or virtually floating to heaven as a cluster of agents sit in a conference room listening to a mafioso incriminate himself, or speaking in a treble accent that exists in Boston but that I've never heard in a movie because the degree of difficulty is high, it's like he's inventing some new kind of machismo.

When I hear the word strategy, I think of people sitting around a long table, in a large conference room, with a whiteboard full of scribbles, arrows, and numbers.

I was at a conference over the weekend and I learned SO much about self - pubbing from other authors as we were just sitting around BSing.

Revealed at a press conference in San Francisco, the final version of the Rift headset will come with a desktop sensor which will work with the headset, allowing users to sit, stand and move around «a little bit» while wearing it.

When not jetting around the world to lecture in France about mobile technology or sit on blogging panels at U.S. tech conferences, Ito advises the Japanese government and appears on Japanese talk shows.

And this applies to international politics just as much as it does to the legislative agenda of the U.S. Senate.I submit that asking an international Conference to sit around looking out the window for months, while one chamber of the legislature of one country deals with its other business, is simply not a realistic political position.»

Second, my preference is to use my laptop to read email and attachments as I work on a mobile basis a lot of the time — whether roaming around the office, sitting in the middle of a conference room or meeting, or in a hotel room somewhere,

A group of professionals focused on innovation in law firms were sitting around a table at a recent conference in London when one wryly remarked, «Partnership votes?

Go hire a photographer for one hour, have them come to your office, take some headshots of you, take some different shots of you around the office, sitting at your desk, maybe outside, maybe in a conference room if you have it.

In messing around with it — putting the console on one end of the conference table, and inching away from it slowly on the other side — it seems like the cord will be more comfortable at a desk or table, but still might be too short to sit under a TV.