Sentences with phrase «skills lack of»

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And then (perhaps more commonly) there are more complex cases, in which lack of business skill (say, at providing high - quality service) results in a desire by some employees to engage in compensatory wrongdoing, and that wrongdoing is made easier by ongoing incompetent accounting.

TalentSmart has tested the emotional intelligence (EQ) of more than a million people and discovered that social awareness is a skill in which many of us are lacking.

Lack of that skill will decimate your effectiveness.

As of May 2017, Alexa finally gained one of its simplest skills that it had been lacking — the ability to make calls and send messages.

As a result of a decade - long succession planning process, the 17 - member family established a retirement fund for the founder, and then undertook a gap analysis to determine which skills were lacking among the members of the next generation.

All of which suggests that if you're lacking something in the soft skills department, it might be time to seriously consider upping your game in the area.

Jobs are going unfilled, despite significant un - and underemployment, with employers blaming a lack of qualified workers (the so - called skills gap) and job seekers complaining that companies are too picky and unwilling to train.

«It's very possible they'll like other aspects of your experience, or maybe you'll click with the interviewer, so if you're lacking some skill, it's not a deal breaker and they'll give you a chance anyhow,» says Kay.

Many small businesses are slowly trickling into video marketing (which is great), but where most hesitation occurs or where most skill is lacking is the absence of a person to shoot the video.

Like Nelson says, lack of confidence is a memory killer, and if you bite off too much too soon, your confidence will disappear — and so will your skill.

A traditional view of entrepreneurs is that they are creative individuals who tinker in garages, lack social skills and can't run anything.

And despite common perception, one of the biggest roadblocks to good results isn't a lack of information or skill, it's a leader's inability to put aside his or her ego.

Looking back, he can pinpoint mistakes he's made as CEO of Pepsi, and later, as CEO of Apple, some stemming from his lack «of technical skills.»

Or as Ben Hsieh, program manager of Nest, bottom lines, startups fail when «(the) team lacked skills to execute.»

In this age of Big Data, Qlik surveys demonstrate that «workers lack the skills to fully leverage the abundance of information to create actionable insights.»

Instead, ask which of the critical skills you lack and what you need to do to be ready for the next opportunity.

However, with technology - based education initiatives likely to see a reduction in federal and state funding in the coming years, the public sector will likely not have the resources to step in and help bridge the gap between a lack of skilled workers and unfilled jobs.

As in many of China's steel towns, the workers were older and lacked skills to compete for other jobs.

With a lack of skills in any one of these areas, you will generally see a pattern in which projects go over budget, fail to meet deadlines and more often than not fail to achieve the desired goal successfully.

Even if this person has the right skills and background for the job, a lack of fit with workplace culture can spell long - term disaster.

If you can find something new that's growing fast, and get skilled at it early, you'll find it disproportionately easy to excel because of the lack of competition.

When Eric Gales emigrated to Canada from the U.K. in 2006 to take the job of VP Microsoft Canada he brought with him not just self - made management skills, but the kind of risk - taking attitude sorely lacking in Canadian business culture.

If you have not yet achieved the success you dream of, it's easy to fall into the trap of believing you lack a certain something — character, skill, or maybe simple luck — to get ahead.

Legislators have announced efforts to improve the visa process and retain more highly skilled, foreign - born workers, but perhaps unsurprisingly considering the general lack of productivity in the current congress, these efforts have been largely ignored by lawmakers.

Making up for their lack of emotions, psychopaths tend to develop strong skills when it comes to mimicking emotions and sincerity.

The alleged litany of bad behavior led some to speculate that Hindawi lacked the skills to manage the company without hands - on help from his father, David, who is the other co-founder and was instrumental in building Tanium.

When lack of playing time didn't allow him to display his skills, he took to YouTube with one of the most hilarious videos you'll ever see.

But the problem doesn't lie in employees» lack of skills or current leadership's inability to train future leaders.

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.

While politicians point to a lack of investment in technology and skills as root causes, a recent Bank of England research paper has a more novel suggestion: Smartphones.

So feel free to say, «His skills are deficient,» when an employee is lacking specific skills (because you're focusing on the missing skill and not the employee), but leave defective to discussions of inanimate objects.

cents Work Opportunity Tax Credit: Both houses extend, through 2010, this tax credit for hiring disadvantaged people to include unemployed veterans and unemployed young people who've dropped out of school and lack basic skills.

Few people have been trained to focus on emotional management skills, however, a lack of these coping abilities can lead to damaged relationships and career setbacks.

It is now easier than ever to see immediately which area of a salesperson's skill set is lacking and move to correct it with proper coaching.

While there are 7.5 million unemployed Americans as of December 31, 2016, the irony is that there are 5.5 million jobs unfilled, many due to a lack of skilled workers.

46 percent of employees cited a lack of opportunity to learn new skills as a top reason for seeking a change.

Startups lack the deep bench of talent that larger firms have, so secondary skills matter.

He writes about a talentless girls basketball team that resorted to the strategy of the insurgent, playing an exhausting full - court press to compensate for their lack of traditional skills.

A recent research report by the Society for Human Resource Management states that nearly 40 percent of hiring managers cite lack of technical skills among the reasons why they can't fill job openings.

Small business owners in the Journal article say the lack of skilled, experienced workers is hindering their ability to expand.

John Chambers believes companies will stumble not because of weak talent, but because they lack digital business skills.

You can overcome a lack of skill, but you will never overcome a poor attitude or a poor fit.

Many people feel asking for help is a sign of weakness; implicit in the request is a lack of knowledge, skill, or experience.

On the outsourcing debate, Cook has previously said Apple would not be able to shift much of its manufacturing back to the United States because of a lack of workers with the proper skills.

The acquisition turned into a disaster as a lack of skilled staff and a dwindling photo - development business weakened the already struggling stores.

Doing so conveys a lack of respect, attention, listening skills, and willpower.

A new study published in the Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences, however, suggests that the problem is neither lack of interest nor lack of skill.

Without a doubt, a lack of interpersonal skills can derail a career, no matter how talented and accomplished one might be.

Are digital natives really lacking the interpersonal skills necessary for certain types of jobs?

Fire people then Complain about the lack of skilled Labour and professionals.