Sentences with phrase «than training for»

To those stuck in the middle of it, this is nothing more than training for next hurricane season.

The review says vocational courses should give pupils a general introduction to an industry, rather than training them for a specific job.

Despite a few cliche moments that felt unnecessary and easily remedied, «I Can I Will I Did» makes it clear that Ben's journey is more grounded than training for the big tournament or getting back at the bullies.

When you are powerlifting for your own benefit — rather than training for the Olympics — you can take this approach to all of your muscle training and not limit it to deadlifts, squats, and bench presses.

Part of the reason this was as stated — diet is arguably more important than training for long - term health benefits.

Ask any experienced lifter and he will tell you that it is actually diet that is more important than training for building muscle.

Training for # 2 takes longer than training for # 1, so be patient.

This only conditions a child's mind to notice these things and view them as forbidden, rather than training them for self - control through the simple acknowledgement that humans are by nature sexual beings, and that the female form is beautiful, something to be appreciated and not objectified.

Not exact matches

I was surprised when I learned that Kevin Johnson, CEO of America's most popular coffee brand Starbucks, decided to close more than half of the company's U.S. stores on May 29 to conduct racial bias training for staff, following the uproar over two black men — Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson — being arrested at a Philadelphia location.

On - demand virtual training programs featuring more than 1,400 modules, videos and webinars for continuing education

Much of this, it can be argued, is that HR analysis tends to focus on the past — for example how many staff have been hired, the number of days taken off sick and the volume of training delivered — rather than looking to the future to see what it may hold.

That aviation company consists of what he calls the world's largest air force, with more than 50 jet fighters, and offers simulated threats for training exercises for one of its clients, the U.S. Department of Defense.

Many of the structures and institutions he helped pioneer more than a century ago — in - house sales teams; geographic sales territories; sales conferences; quotas; training academies — we now take for granted.

The small business owner who clearly communicates personal expectations and company goals, provides adequate compensation, offers meaningful opportunities for career advancement, anticipates work force training and developmental needs, and provides meaningful feedback to his or her employees is far more likely to be successful than the owner who is neglectful in any of these areas.

As for China's ever - expanding network of bullet trains, Chinese media report trains on several of the new lines frequently run with more than half their seats empty.

Once I realized that I couldn't do it all, I started training and delegating, and it was easier than I thought it would be... and it made it possible for us to grow faster than ever.

Pinterest is almost four years old and it's big enough for its britches — big enough to pull the plug on its affiliate links program, a money - making gravy train that more than a few brands, bloggers and Pinfluencers will sorely miss.

«Since I knew their personalities and work ethic, it was easy for me to get them trained — far faster than employees I'd hired conventionally with better industry experience,» he says.

For example, Consigli University offers its 800 employees more than 10,000 hours of training through more than 150 classes covering a wide range of technical subjects.

There has to be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director of training for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Mountain View, Calif., that focuses on teaching and encouraging positive character - building in youth and high school sports.

Though OFC exceeds its quota, managers at the firm consider it to be their greatest challenge: For many jobs, hiring Saudis — who often require training and who by law are paid considerably more than expats — is expensive.

Rather than eliminating the microloan program, for instance, Preston's 2008 budget request proposes raising interest rates to the intermediaries and offloading the technical assistance to partners that already provide training.

Plus, the training is likely to be a lot more relevant and useful than whatever cookie - cutter seminar you would sign up your people for instead.

The research cluster in B.C. centred around early developer Ballard Power still accounts for more than a quarter of fuel - cell industry revenues worldwide, said B.C.'s job, tourism and skills training minister, Pat Bell.

Recruits, hires, trains, places, and manages substitute teachers and school support staff for more than 250 client schools.

Unhappy, unhealthy employees increase human - resources costs — training a new employee costs more than $ 6,000, for example.

Musk, the chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc (tsla) and rocket company SpaceX (spacex), recently started the Boring Company to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high - speed trains and use electromagnetic propulsion.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

«Increased morale and a better trained workforce will do more for our company than chasing cost - savings and eliminating every borderline job.»

Warren Buffett spends a lot of his day reading reports, LeBron trains in the gym more than others, and Leo trains for the character he is going to play.

There is room here for activist public policy aimed at assisting people as soon as they become unemployed — including very fast interventions to have resumés updated, interview skills improved and much shorter - duration job training programs (rather than ones that last months or years).

The social media giant also said it would be providing digital skills training for more than 15,000 women in France, following on from similar drives in the U.K. and Italy.

You can set up training videos, corporate seminars, workbooks and manuals for your virtual business just as easily, if not more easily than you can in physical space.

Another player's father, a sales rep for AltiGen Communications, a maker of Internet phone systems in Fremont, Calif., told him that AltiGen could outfit those 12 workers for less than $ 20,000, including installation, training, and service.

Restless Bandit, named for a problem in decision theory, has aggregated more than 100 million job descriptions and 30 million resumes to train its algorithms, which are now being used by such clients as Gannett, Adidas, Applebee's, and comScore.

For him and countless other ex-marines, there is no better preparation for the rigors of running a business than the intense training of the U.S. Marine CorFor him and countless other ex-marines, there is no better preparation for the rigors of running a business than the intense training of the U.S. Marine Corfor the rigors of running a business than the intense training of the U.S. Marine Corps.

Many researchers say automation will replace humans at a faster clip than humans will be able to create and train for new jobs.

Ambrosia's founder, the Stanford - trained physician Jesse Karmazin, has been studying aging for more than a decade.

But the lesser - known Wahlberg brother — Paul — is a classically trained chef who has been in the restaurant industry for more than 30 years.

Here in the information age, train wrecks are often brought under a spotlight for cross-examination, and there's nothing more fascinating to rubberneckers than a company imploding on its favorite social network.

Regulatory changes had been in the wind for some time as the evidence against the program built up, yet employers relied on the lobbying efforts of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business to maintain the program rather than taking steps to improve domestic recruitment and training efforts or adjust wages and benefits to attract workers.

A 2016 Pew Research Center survey shows that more than half of the adults in the workforce today realize that it will be essential for them to get training and develop new skills throughout their career in order to keep up with changes in the workplace.

There are times, after all, when a company needs salespeople to do something other than selling — training new hires, or covering for other salespeople who aren't available, or working with operations to fix problems and improve service.

While teaching organizational behavior at Cornell University for more than 35 years, I've had the privilege of training numerous young people who have now moved on to be leaders in the private and public sector.

«We do need more good engineers... you do the best work that you can in training yourselves and getting to be a good engineer, and you will have a good future... there's way more demand for engineers right now than there are engineers.»

THE long - awaited recovery of investment in WA's resource sector has been foreshadowed by Woodside Energy's disclosure that design engineering work for its proposed $ 2.6 billion North West Shelf Train 4 project will be sourced from Perth rather than overs

It provides a 10 - week training and mentoring program for those who have taken a career break of more than two years, equipping employees with skills to reenter the workplace.

«The majority of the structure, the documentation, the training, and the support has been established by me and my team,» he says, and that he's been able to «faster than the competition in identifying new products and releasing them into the wild, we've been able to target largely underserved market segments (like tech - savvy millennials), and we've gotten to choose the best tech for our suite of productivity tools (like Shopify Plus, Slack, Sublime Text, Todoist, and Mailchimp), whilst quickly retiring those that haven't worked with minimal disruption.»

PHILADELPHIA — Starbucks will close more than 8,000 U.S. stores for an afternoon next month to train employees as the company responds to criticism after two black men were arrested while waiting at one of the coffee chain's Philadelphia stores last week.

Employers are adopting resilience training for their employees at a rate faster than any other intervention in the United States.1 Resilience — the ability to use positive mental skills to remain psychologically steady and focused when faced with challenges or adversity — contributes substantially to how workers deal with stress and perform at work.2, 3 Employers are developing resilience to achieve a competitive advantage, similar to how the military trains active duty soldiers and their family members to withstand challenges.4, 5