Sentences with phrase «talking at people»

In two decades of working to defend courts, I've heard much more about the need for civics education (talking at people) than I have for the need for community engagement (listening to people).

My favorite part of Edcamps is that it's not about talking at people.

But the tough thing there is, when something isn't working, talking at people doesn't really change them.

In this chapter, we look at some of the forms of evangelism today, and how they amount to little more than talking at people, which is not Scriptural and does more damage to the Gospel than good.

Chapter 11 of Close Your Church for Good looks at some of the forms of evangelism today, and how they amount to little more than talking at people.

When it came down to it, I was talking at people, not with them.

And finally, I think it's important that this is not something we discuss simply in ideologies or rhetoric, talking at people and around people, but rather that we begin talking with people.

That professor that she talked about is your typical arrogant Christian, who believes that doing all of the talking at people is the most important thing in this world.

But new technologies let us do much more than just talk AT people — they also let us talk WITH people at scale, all at once.

I've been told by people that I am «funny» and I like to talk at people at length about things I'm exited or passionate about.

I've been told by people that I am «funny» and I like to talk at people at length about things I'm exited or passionate about.

Not exact matches

Data and research and scholarly journals are great, but people like Dale, people with a pubic platform willing to talk openly about their experiences, spread awareness and create change at a much faster rate than would otherwise have been possible.

«An applicant then moves step - by - step through our interview process, talking with another person they'd work with at every stage of interviewing.»

«People I've talked to who have looked at the books — to the extent you can — of the state - owned enterprises and estimated what would be their profit margin if they had to pay market rates for their inputs is that a lot of them would go bankrupt or they would be far less profitable,» Dobson says.

One of the things I love about live television interviews is the intensity of it — two people are literally staring at each other for five minutes straight talking, sometimes tensely.

In a group of people, you should occasionally look at the person you are interested in, no matter who else is talking.

«That's not to say people shouldn't talk politics at all.

Silverstein: And when you sell — when you're talking about of a software for an institution, because when we look at bitcoin and all these currencies, every person that's involved in the network has a copy of the database right?

Our algorithms look at 450 popcorn companies across the country and score them on metrics around brand engagement — how often and quickly consumers talk about the brands, the sentiment, the word choice people use.

«You learn a heck of a lot when you talk to people not in a formal setting, not in a roundtable discussion, not in a town hall meeting, but just when moms and dads are shopping at a grocery store,» she says.

«The thing about his appointment that I think has not been picked up on by a lot of people who've been reporting on this is when Clarke was under consideration to be chosen at sheriff, there was not any hint from anywhere that he was a conservative,» said Mark Belling, a conservative Wisconsin talk - show host.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

And I think the subject that I would talk about mostly is a level of compassion and empathy that we need to try to recognize that the only way our society and the promise of America and the American dream can continue to exist is to ensure the fact that those people who were at the lower end have the same opportunity that people have with the right ZIP code in America.

When you're talking to other people in a business setting, try to focus on the task at hand.

«People are accustomed to talking at normal volumes, so just watch your volume and keep it short.»

At that point, they might want to talk to somebody but 85 percent of people reaching out to businesses at that point — whether it be about pizza or plumbing — are dissatisfieAt that point, they might want to talk to somebody but 85 percent of people reaching out to businesses at that point — whether it be about pizza or plumbing — are dissatisfieat that point — whether it be about pizza or plumbing — are dissatisfied.

But all contain triggers that get people talking, says Jonah Berger, marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the bestseller Contagious: Why Things Catch On.

But I will say that when I've been out talking to people about this at the DMZ... they haven't complained to me about it.

When I got started, most of the people I talked to about apartments immediately told me that owning multi-family buildings is a nightmare and that I would have difficulties with tenants at midnight when the plumbing sprang a leak.

Talk to your trusted person about what quality of life means to you, and at what point you no longer want artificial interventions, she said.

They will talk to the person sitting next to them on the bus, having retained that natural inquisitiveness we all had as children, but which society is so good at beating out of us,» he writes.

«I know you're into big diversion tonight, anything to avoid talking about your campaign and the way it's exploding and the way Republicans are leaving you, but let's at least focus on the issues that some people care about,» Clinton said.

Dig Deeper: How to Boost Traffic at Your Trade Show Booth How to Get the Most Out of a Conference: Networking Strategy When you're killing time between sessions and making connections, don't join another conversation unless you've read the body language of the people already talking.

Of those four to six million people who are on Twitter looking at tweets about the NFL game on a Thursday night, they're talking to each other having a conversation,» Noto said.

Also avoid dealing with those at the other extreme, people who always talk about risks and lead an investor to believe that the venture has no chance of success.

«In 2014, people talked about Uber disrupting taxis,» says James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research.

Friday morning Londoners, who voted by and large to remain in the EU, were walking the streets with a stunned look, and what's even odder (for English people, at least) actually talking to strangers in cafes and on trains, discussing how such a thing could happen, what would happen next, and who was to blame.

Then I started to think of it in terms of probability, which is when that poker craze happened — at least in Canada — where poker became a thing and people were talking about odds and stuff.

He thinks that Americans, especially, apply their efficient approach at work to how they meet people, talking in boring, direct ways about themselves.

So over time I've gotten fairly good at Social Jiu - Jitsu, the ancient art of getting people to talk about themselves.

«The fact that they stuck with the three rate - hike forecast sends a signal that at this point they're not ready to adopt a potentially more aggressive stance that a number of people have been talking about for next year,» said Craig Bishop, lead strategist for U.S. fixed income at RBC Wealth Management.

We need to make sure we have a compelling feature set that we can execute at a high quality, so when we start talking about the next iteration of the game it looks, feels and plays different enough that people feel like they have to get the next version.

But here's the key: If you're in a conversation at a work - related function or meeting someone to talk business for the first time, your best move is not to ask work - or business - related questions; it's to discover common ties with that person that will steer the conversation back to the «work stuff,» but with a deeper connection.

After hearing me talk about it to other people at our table, the executives asked me to share my innovation with the group the next day.

These days, many people do a good job talking about diversity, but not as good a job at bringing it about.

Susan Cain, TED speaker and author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, cites research conducted by Adam Grant at the Wharton School who found that introverted leaders often get better results, compared with extroverts, because the latter can unwittingly squelch creativity by not giving up the reins and letting people run with their own ideas.

You'll never know about it unless you talk to people at other companies, so be sure you're using LinkedIn and other online networks to supplement your in - person communications.

One of the things we talk about at Zenefits is that we want to hire people who have a chip on their shoulder — an intensity to prove they can accomplish something, or prove people who have doubted them wrong.

It was really funny because when I talked to these guys at Apple, I told them we just can't get people on fast enough, and they're like well join the club: we can't make iPads fast enough.

«Before the housewares show — talk about people you know — a good friend of ours was at a shiva call and met this gentlemen,» Och said.