Sentences with phrase «ticking boxes rather»

This government appears to be too busy ticking boxes rather than facing facts.

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Use your to - do list to make a plan — specifically think through when and where you'll do the tasks and in what order — and you'll find you maximize the actual benefit you get out of the exercise, a quieter mind rather than a series of boxes you'll actually tick.

So many businesses see a strategy as a form that needs to be filled, a box that needs to be ticked, rather than an essential business process that is central to the growth and development of the business.

Following the announcement of Liberty's proposals for the 2021 season on Friday, Aston Martin President and CEO Andy Palmer tweeted that the proposed plans effectively tick all of the boxes Aston Martin needs to compete in the series as an engine manufacturer, rather than just a title sponsor to Red Bull Racing.

Unfortunately for him though, he simply doesn't tick the boxes required moving forward and will have to be replaced sooner rather than later.

And we will look at the law to make sure the inspector's judgement is about whether a hospital is clean, safe and caring - rather than an exercise in bureaucratic box ticking.

The new proposals were a «box - ticking» exercise rather than a real attempt to extend opportunity to more people, Ms May added.

Ortiz also talks about a bill he sponsored that would force drivers» license applicants to make a choice whether to become organ donors, rather than just tick a box if they want to donate.

It's not something that you can objectively measure and tick a box that says you have it — rather it's something that your users get to experience for themselves.

The eLearning industry must continue to evolve in order to approach learning not just as a linear slide - based, tick box exercise, but rather as something that captivates an audience with interaction and storytelling if it is to provide a lasting and memorable experience.

The key mistakes identified include: late publication and frequent changes in the middle of the year; inappropriate content; lack of clarity on standards and contradictory guidelines; a focus on tick - box skills rather than the quality of work; lack of time to implement the new curriculum; and serious errors on the design of a reception baseline, leading to its cancellation.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of NAHT, is calling for a «better system of assessment - one that works for parents, pupils and teachers, rather than one that just ticks boxes for bureaucrats and politicians».

Seeing technology as a tool to deliver a specific learning outcome or benefit, or to solve a particular issue — rather than as means to achieve a «tick - box» exercise of curriculum coverage.

We created this feedback sticker so that when we were marking hundreds of assessments at a time (one set of questions A-D on the topic) we could easily diagnose success and targets by ticking the relevant boxes rather than writing them out.

As Rod Boswell, Vice Principal with responsibility for CPD comments, «Particularly with such a large school, all staff objectives need to fit in with those of the faculty and in turn the whole school and rather than being seen as a chore and a «tick box» exercise, the vision should be shared by all.

One teacher said: «If you have got 60 young people coming in... and you have to tick 47 boxes about all of them, of course your mind is going to be on that rather than talking to them about their nice shiny shoes and about their pet rabbit at home.»

Now is the time to call for a better system of assessment — one that works for parents, pupils and teachers, rather than one that just ticks boxes for bureaucrats and politicians.»

If Porsche bundle the two together and have the PDK transmission as another box to tick rather than a standalone model, a PDK's list price would be the same as manuals, ultimately falling beneath the # 40,000 figure.

The Tata Tiago seems to tick all the right boxes for a global entry - level hatchback; it's feature packed, has a fresh contemporary design, and has been put together rather nicely.

With its # 44,700 base price inflated to # 59,475 with some rather liberal option box ticking, you'd think» our» RS3 would have a want - for - nothing spec.

Some of these check boxes are rather banal: you'll get a tick for device hardware from the app for simply having a BlackBerry device, and for running Android.

Tesco has rather an uphill struggle on its hands then, not only does it need to convince buyers that it can build a tablet that is as good - looking, powerful and intuitive as the competition it also needs to be cheaper, the result of this box ticking, is the Hudl.

In any case, it's clear that all this happened because of my mother's banking relationship with Chase, as she didn't have to tick off a set of boxes to join Private Client, rather she just had a good working relationship with her banker.

In regulating both entities as well as individuals, the SRA has shifted its rules away from a proscriptive, «tick - the - box» approach towards «outcomes focused regulation» (OFR), described as an approach focused on the outcomes achieved rather than on the processes used to achieve them, and as a rejection as a «one size fits all» approach to regulation.

In regulating both entities as well as individuals, rules are shifting away from proscriptive, «tick - the - box» approach towards an «outcomes» approach, where the focus is on the outcomes achieved rather than on the processes used to achieve them.

Tom Morrison, associate, Rollits, says: «In an attempt to comply with the law some organisations have lost sight of the primary purpose of a privacy notice; to enable individuals to ascertain how their personal information will be handled, rather than to tick a box saying that a section of the Data Protection Act 1998 has been complied with.

We'd prefer to have a universal USB charger rather than a proprietary charging dock, but this is a minor complaint for a pair of headphones that otherwise tick all the boxes.

A first step to improving the current situation for the Indigenous Nations of the Murray - Darling Basin is to ensure the rights based and process focused involvement of Indigenous interests rather than marginal inclusion that allows authorities to tick a box.