Sentences with phrase «starting point a performance»

Not exact matches

Ordinary metrics such as calls per day and minutes per call are a decent starting point, but they alone are not comprehensive enough to paint a complete picture of the skills of any particular sales rep.. So, consider incorporating lesser - used metrics into your performance tracking, such as voicemail - return rate, dial - to - opportunity percentage and dials - to - appointments ratio.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

The late anthropologist Victor Turner provided a conceptual starting point for performance centered research in the humanities.

If you really believe in jesus performance before poor people from the start point of your heart; you, without any reasonable doubt; will see the end point

The good news is that this team can only get better and better... it's a slow start to the season (from a points and performance perspective) but they are building.

Brad Keselowski started the day on the right side of the playoff bubble, then quickly fell on the wrong side once the race began as Hamlin's dominating performance through the first two stages erased the 19 - point advantage Keselowski held.

The two teams sides have had identical starts when it comes to results — seven points from two wins, a draw and a loss — but more than that, have shared a general sense of inadequacy in performance.

Ever since this season started, we had lost games in which a better performance from Cech would have won us the points.

He will surely be expecting a fully commited performance from Sam Allardyce's side but he expects the same from Arsenal and pointed to our win over Everton in the early Saturday start after playing in Barcelona on a Wednesday night as an example.

To forestall another dropped points, Something had to be done to arrest that lackluster Gunners performance starts of last week.

Chris Wroblewski started the year with 31 points while Jason Battle added 17 and Josh Berman stayed hot from his Championship performance this Summer, with 16.

Also our performances were poor as a team but its crucial to take the points even when the performances arent up there,» winning ugly»... hopefully the performances will start to rise as the team gains confidence and we can start to put teams away comfortably, overall not a bad week...

Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.

I'll start with the good stuff which were exactly two — the point we got and Ospina's performance.

His performance at the other end of the pitch was also impressive and drew plaudits, yet it was his central defensive partner who really shone as the Gunners extended their impressive start to the season, coming away from the Etihad with a well - earned point.

I'm hoping that PSGs rocky start might help us to a lucky point, because performance wise I'm yet to be impressed.

Despite a somewhat disjointed performance from the Arsenal team we did at least manage to earn a point from the Premier League match against top four rivals Man City yesterday and the fans will be hoping that this can be the start of our usual strong finish to an EPL campaign.

As for the transfers, I said he could have done better, but we are starting to buy the world class players that arsenal deserves... My point is that on the day it's arsenals 11 against the opposition 11, and it's up to the players to get the win... Wenger plays a big part in the tactics and formations yes... However ultimately it's down to the players to come up with the result... I think the players get away with poor performances too lightly as wenger gets the brunt of the criticism, ultimately it was a poor performance by the players yesterday not by wenger

I think they had a strong start, Everton, and overall they are one of the dangerous teams where you look at the schedule and you need a strong performance to get the points.

-- During Texas A&M's dominant performance over South Carolina as a 10 - point underdog, Aggies QB Kenny Hill moved to 20:1 during the game to win the Heisman Trophy Award after starting the season with no odds.

Team Feldgreber (EFT Sports Performance)-- Currently in 14th with 28 points — If the Playoffs started today they'd be on the outside looking in.

This would indicate that players are not assured of a starting place if their performances drop and players are being dropped / rotated; I would point to changes at centreback - Gabriel coming in for Mertesacker & vice-versa, on the wing - Iwobi displacing Walcott / Campbell, central midfield - Elneny displacing Coquelin / Ramsey, up front - Welbeck / Giroud / Walcott competition over the season.

Arsene Wenger made an illusion about the temperature that water boils at and compared it to the almost very good performances that Arsenal had been putting in at the start of the season, suggesting that the Gunners just needed a few extra degrees of temperature before we hit our own boiling point.

After an uninspiring performance against Burnley, the players will not only be fighting for the three points, but a place in Mauricio Pochettino's starting line - up against Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday.

Liverpool made a decent enough start by claiming the three points against Ronald Koeman's new look Southampton side but the performance itself was nothing to write home about.

City have been imperious this season and apart from couple of wobbly performances at the start of the season they now sit top of the table with 8 points lead after just 12 games this season.

Following Fulham's dramatic last gasp point against Manchester United on Sunday, the pressure will be on the Welsh side to start turning performances into points.

This reduces the dependency on one player and should more performances continue like ones earlier in the season which yielded no reward of points, one would think that Anzhi will eventually start to pick up some more points.

Two games against below mid-table teams and we are really struggling.Is Fabs the answer?I don't think so.The first game against WBA would easily have been a draw but we were lucky though not this time round on Saturday.It was difficult and frustrating watching my team fail to create any clear cut chances in 94 minutes of football.There was such a corridor in our midfield that fulham utilized to the maximum.If we start dropping points against the likes of fulham at this stage in the competition then what will become of us in the 6 matches against the top three teams?I can see why I need to lower my expectations early enough to avoid disappointment later on.Very poor performance from Denilson.But why was Theo sub'd instead of bringing in Song for Denilson early enough?!

Pep Guardiola took his side to the London Stadium at the start of February 2017 and saw his side put in another stunning performance to claim the points in a 4 - 0 win.

It was one of a number of impressive displays Wolves have put in over the last month and with the team finally getting their just rewards for all their industrious and workmanlike efforts, perhaps now the Midland club can start churning encouraging performances into valuable points.

Nevertheless, it was a still a very poor team performance from the Reds» but when results are the moneymaker nowadays and players thrive on points, perhaps the win is all that matters and people can start criticising Liverpool if they do fail to win on their next venture.

Impressive results home and away to Liverpool and Manchester United just before the break meant Sunderland went in to the two - week international period on a high, although, as was much the case last season, the team's failure to convert accomplished performances into three points is tarnishing what would otherwise be a very impressive start to the season.

Vito Mannone was culpable for the goal but fingers should be pointed at each and every member of the starting eleven — barring Mikel Arteta and perhaps Olivier Giroud — for a team performance that lacked anything near the sort of effort that was required.

MF Morgan Schneiderlin, 7 — Too late in the season to right the wrongs of a collection of pitiful performances to this point, but this was an encouraging start and the rarest of glimpses of the player so effective last season.

Another season at Solihull Moors would be a good starting point, whilst his performances at that level will have caught the eye of many a rival manager if he wants to spread his wings and undertake another new adventure.

Until we start showing up consistently, and clearing out all of the skeletons in our closet, we have no right to point at others and complain, or gossip about their performance.

After your workout is finished your performance ability gradually returns to its initial starting point through recovery.

After managing to obtain a degree in music performance, moving to the other side of the country, and starting work in an unfamiliar field, I would say that stress and I are well acquainted at this point.

At that point, you may start to become fatigued, and your performance may suffer.

Day - Lewis, who attended the event with director Paul Thomas Anderson and co-star Vicky Krieps - said: «I don't think so,» before adding: «There have been performances certainly when I was starting out and discovering films, performances that filled me to the point of bursting with the desire to try to do something, but that's always an element of believing it's impossible that person can do that.

After a while, as powerful as Criss» performance is, even the Cunanan scenes start to feel like overkill: repetitive and methodical, to the point of becoming dull.

The only candidate everyone feels pretty safe writing off without a qualm is Jacki Weaver, whose performance as Animal Kingdom's quasi-incestuous Ma Barker picked up a citation from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, but whose slow - burning presence in the film doesn't really start to accrue merit points until long after some voters could be expected to hit eject.

While Traffic is essentially about the war on drugs in America, the film's starting point is the almost - exclusively south - of - the - border (and nearly all Spanish language) story of Javier Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro, doing away with his annoying tics and delivering a career performance), an average Tijuana State policeman who is given the opportunity for greater prestige by working for General Salazar's (Tomas Milian) efforts against the drug cartels.

This is the main reason the role of the Performance Detective is the starting point of the 70:20:10 framework.

Actually, the best predictor is strong performance in key subject disciplines like math and reading, so doing a good job with foundation skills is an important starting point.

«Test scores can form the starting point for accountability, but we aim to combine our qualitative and quantitative measures to look forward and inform ourselves and our community about current performance and improvement needed.»

I use the ABCs of high quality online discussions as a starting point for feedback that impacts student performance:

Understanding the school's baseline level of performance provides a starting point to compare your progress against, enabling you to communicate these achievements throughout the programme.

However, those teachers may use their students» performance on prior years of the state tests when gathering baseline data to determine their starting points.