Sentences with phrase «starting challenging conversations»

Famous quotations can be excellent tools for starting challenging conversations, says retired principal Dr. Peggy George.

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Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley and his CEO coach, former venture capitalist Jerry Colonna, had a frank conversation about the challenges of running a start - up at Friday's Northside Festival.

So thanks for starting this invasive conversation by challenging a personal choice that you aren't a part of at all.

For shy people or those not skilled at small talk, starting conversations with near strangers can be challenging.

I can't wait to start my daily show on LBC and I invite listeners to agree with me or challenge me and together we can lead Britain's conversation.»

It's starting that conversation between provider and patient, not to challenge, but as a way for both parties to acknowledge the benefits of antibiotic treatment and the possible adverse effects from antibiotic use.»

Spending time preparing meals together gives parents and children a good framework to start conversations that can explore important and serious topics, such as challenges the child is facing.

Whenever I called her after a big test or first date, challenging work project or exciting trip, she always started the conversation by asking two questions, «How did it go?»

How to start a conversation with bike girls of interest can be a challenge and below are some of the best ways to go about it.

It starts with action planning in the early fall (in which schools develop and submit an improvement plan); a provincial learning session in mid-fall for staff teams from all OFIP schools in the province (knowledge is shared from previous experience as well as new learning about emerging needs - for example, student and staff resiliency in 2012, and staff learning in mathematics in 2013); mid-year conversations in early spring (monitoring and identifying mid-year successes and challenges in order to modify plans and activities); and a summative conversation in late spring (in which staff reflect on the year, successes, and challenges, and begin discussions about the coming year's OFIP strategy).

At the start, we simply thought we'd try to start a conversation, share the challenges and support one another in finding solutions, to find ways to make a change; we had absolutely no idea what we could do or how we'd do it, we simply didn't want to sit back and allow the situation to continue; we wanted to challenge the system.

Use this resource to start conversations about democracy in your classroom and to challenge your students to be active participants.

He also examines the challenges, including start - up hurdles, the lack of gatekeepers, tendencies to create «silos,» avoidance of difficult conversations, and misalignment with district goals.

Partnered with the University of Phoenix, the National Network of State Teachers of the year just released this list — broken down by grade level — which was curated by real teachers with a goal of using books to start conversations, spark ideas, and present challenges to brainstorm solutions in the wake of social unrest in our country.

Many candidates start the conversation with, «Well, the first school must be a Title I school,» or «I understand that the first school has many second language students and ethnic minorities; it must face extraordinary challenges.»

«We took a big leap forward today by starting a national conversation about these topics, the future of V2I technologies and some of the bigger challenges facing us, such as privacy, security and interoperability.»

When you find someone you think is interesting, break the ice by starting a conversation or challenging them in a topic you are both passionate about.

For episode 13, I again tap into early travel bloggers to start a conversation around what the challenges are and what the journey is like.

From having conversations with target clients to prep before getting started, their tips highlight the common challenges associated with startups and how to overcome them.

Farmer started her conversation with me by pointing out that lawyers facing this sort of time challenge are likely Quick Starts.

This past week, I've had some of the most meaningful conversations about cryptocurrency that I've had since starting the challenge.

Games have given people something to do while waiting for message replies, or a reason to start a conversation with a high score challenge.

Then start to open up the conversation and find out what challenges exist on his or her level, on their manager's level, on the division level, company - wide, and industry wide.

Calma urged those in the room to challenge the stereotypes often perpetrated by the mainstream media, to read the #JustJustice series, to look at NITV or SBS «to get another perspective», and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars to start writing and speaking out more, on platforms like The Conversation.

What I would say to the sceptics and the critics is to broaden your mind, view the conversations, examine the statistics and make time to «listen» with an intent to learn and let it start a process of personal transformation in you to challenge your established perceptions and belief about Indigenous people and Indigenous health.

But there is a time of the day when I do nt know what to do or how to approach to my middle son JP of 6 years a very stong - willing boy because I know he is kind of challenging me, and the worst thing is that my little girl is starting to do the same and that time is mealtime, in Mexico we have «lunch» with the family at 2:00 pm when they come back from school and that is his worst time for JP and even when I try to prevent the explosion cooking his favorite meal, start a conversation about the school, how was their day and give him a little bit more of the attention I feel he is trying to get, he «sits» on the table and starts saying silly things or calling names to his brother LM 9 (with the one I've always had a hard time «making» him to eat and my attention «was» always on him because he eats just a few things and in a very little portion, he is very thin, etc.etc.

You can then search for therapists that are experts in dealing with that specific type of challenge, and start conversations with them.

If your MLS does not have green fields, it may be a challenge to find comparable properties for now; however, consider getting involved with your MLS and its leadership to start the conversations necessary for implementation and spearhead its «greening» in the future.

The D.A.N.G.E.R. Report offers no solutions to the challenges it identifies, but instead formulates a starting point for industry - wide conversations and paths for finding solutions, Swanapoel says.