Sentences with phrase «sitting in meetings»

If you've spent a lot of time sitting in meetings without speaking, you've done an awful lot of listening.

I also have dramatically more energy compared with days when I am sitting in meetings, cars, or airplanes.

Sitting in meetings with staffers from the Senate and House Representatives of their home district, and letting them know that they consider a vote against climate change to be a vote in their favor.

And yet again in 2005 the sky was about to fall, but then nothing happened and by this time New York publishers and editors were tired of sitting in meetings talking about the coming problems that were clearly never coming.

This outfit is one of my go - tos because the dress is extremely comfortable and is a great length to be sitting in meetings.

I like to have some room for tucking in shirts and sweaters, so I went up a size from my usual J.Crew size and found that it fit a lot better — especially since you need a little extra room when sitting in meetings all day.

I had an occasion when I was working at the county years ago of sitting in some meetings with Adelphia, and what they kept coming back to people — I was just listening — was, «Look, your elected officials have already had a press conference.

We had been sitting in meetings all day and then finally, after 8 pm, got around to getting out to eat something.

I've observed similar impact related to sitting in meetings and taking notes (high power pose), distracted with «smart» phone (low power pose).

She's made sure to listen all along the way: «I feel like I've gone to undergrad business [school] sitting in meetings and just doing business and learning and asking questions.»

I sat in a meeting with a CEO recently who told me that at his last company, he forced a customer to pay a large contract up front because he «knew our software rollout wasn't going to be successful, so I wanted to be sure I got paid my commission.»

I sat in meetings reviewing technology concepts to create an epicenter destination in the stores.

The second time I sat in their meeting, I realized that Sue asks the same questions at each meeting, and to each rep. Doing things the way we always have done them leads to forecast meetings becoming a waste of time.

I actually sat in meetings where my bosses would ask me things like, «Do you think we could find someone better to do X's job?»

Each employee can regularly post status updates to keep the team aware of his or her progress without carving time out to sit in a meeting.

Accomplishing hard things is the best way to improve team chemistry — not sitting in a meeting.

One ex-Apple employee remembers sitting in a meeting with Jobs, who was mulling over the appeal of Mini Coopers.

Here's the thing: I have sat in meetings with business leaders where the lack of STEM education, programs focusing on the skilled trades, and a lack of job - ready graduates has been the only focus of discussion.

You're sitting in a meeting.

But if directors don't fulfill these requirements, they sit in meetings without any ability to meaningfully contribute.

These informal rules are a powerful hidden force -; governing everything from where you sit in a meeting to how you address your superior.»

Productivity can not begin and goals can not be met sitting in a meeting!

Here is what Dan Donofrio, a New York - based IT executive in the publishing industry, had to say about his plans to use the iPad to create graphics, «In my work, I draw a lot of workflow charts and I like the idea of being able to sit in a meeting and draw.»

We sit in meetings and bite our tongue in order to keep everyone happy, but we're hurting ourselves in the long run.

And this can be something of a sticking point when you're sitting in a meeting room, desperate for almost any route out of hell, and someone cites «the blood of Jesus» as the only way to go.

And when it came down to it, I was sitting in a meeting at which the «group» was being given the illusion of providing input for something that had obviously already been decided.

Ten years ago I sat in a meeting with one senior pastor I have fond memories of.

Just the thought of having to sit in a meeting to talk about what we OUGHT to do, SHOULD do, or MUST do, just makes me want to hurl.

«When you sit in a meeting and they ask you something, you better know something.

Have you sat in the meetings?

They sit in meetings at the school and assume that the guidance counselor's kids are perfect, the principal's kids are perfect and the teacher's kids are perfect.

Sitting in the meeting last night made me feel grateful that I actually followed through on the crazy whim to start The Lunch Tray.

When I sat in a meeting with my daughters to learn about Bay Path University, I also learned about The American Women's College, which is their all - women, 100 % online program.

I was sitting in a meeting and one of our buyers came in and said he wanted to switch out the milk we were buying for the whole region to local milk, because it would reduce our environmental impact, support local farmers and provide customers with a fresher product.

Six weeks later, after being asked every week to do so by Maria Eagle when she met him at shadow cabinet meetings (I wasn't a member of the shadow cabinet, only the shadow secretaries of state sit in that meeting), Jeremy finally phoned me.

«I couldn't sit in that meeting any longer if they're not going to talk about the elephant in the room,» Rice said in a phone interview.

He had to dispatch his spokesperson to go and beg chiefs who have been offended by some DCEs, I saw his spokesperson sat in a meeting for hours to settle internal disputes.

«I sat in a meeting the other day and heard a rationale about how we should be happy we didn't lose as badly two days ago as we did a year ago,» she told CNN.

The shape of the project is still changing, but according to several people who have sat in meetings with the Home Office we now know enough to get a general idea of how it will work.

We are not part of their discussions, we are not sitting in their meeting because they are going to present their report to the president [at the end of their sittings], he said.

In 2006 he had an epiphany of sorts while sitting in a meeting in Japan, jet - lagged from his trip.

I can see it as something that you use to reference your notebook, for example when you're sitting in a meeting.

«You sit in a meeting, and someone says that you have to write that up in a more exciting way,» Ebell says.

No one wants to be sitting in a meeting and your leg starts to tingle because it's starting to get a bit numb....

We don't learn just when sitting in a meeting, or at a conference or from 8:00 to 3:30 PM when school is in session.

I sat in the meeting, half - listening, as I began to devise a plan.

«Too often you sit in a meeting and it has nothing to do with you,» assistant principal Latesha Jones said, in explaining the format.

NO — these people have sat in a meeting and decided to undertake these actions.

So I'm sitting in a meeting one day with a bunch of women who are trying to convince me that in Canada common - law is the same as married.

Back in reality, I had the surf bug again and spent a whole lot of time thinking about surfing while I sat in meetings at work.