Sentences with phrase «time its members spend»

Partners in Care keeps track of the amount of time its members spend on volunteer projects, a concept known as time - banking.

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Think about it — those who start forums are asking potential and current members to spend time each day doing something they don't normally do, which is going into the forum on a separate site and engage in conversation.

The reason my second Facebook post got so much more attention than the first was that I spent a lot of time cultivating an audience whose members care about the specific message, then I simply shared something that I knew they would like.

The best strategy is to let the board member ask his or her question, write it down, tell them it's a good question and one you're happy to spend time with them explaining after the meeting but that your goal for today is to address the bigger issue of X.

If your team members haven't made it a habit to write down everything they've done so far, you will want to encourage them to spend some time retroactively reproducing their sales conversations and processes.

It's common to get into a routine, and part of that routine is the time that we spend away from family members.

At Fortune, he works with a 31 - member board and spends time counseling, but also providing business strategies to help the nonprofit meet its goals.

While not every session is successful, the point is to give staff meetings care and attention so the time your team members invest is well spent.

When you require that your team members visit a certain number of new prospects each month, you may be discouraging them from spending time doing the follow - up visits that lead to actual deals.

To help make them feel like valued members of the team, have them spend time with business or product units.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

When you take the time to read the latest article or, even better, spend some time casually catching up with a team member over a cup of coffee or lunch, you may not be scratching something off the to - do list, but you're building relationships, learning something interesting, discovering something you likely would not have found out otherwise... and, most important, helping to build the foundation for long - term success.»

For instance, one study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: One group's members spent time on their social media pages, and the other group simply surfed the Internet.

So you or your staff members or salespeople call every lead once or twice, then you spend the time with the leads that look like they're going to close.

The more time we spend holding ourselves accountable for doing our jobs, achieving our goals, and supporting our team members, the less time we have to spend holding other accountable.

People really care about each other and enjoy spending time together, from the C - level execs to the more entry - level members of the team.

Every employee, every team member makes some sacrifice to be part of the organization and sometimes that sacrifice comes at the expense of spending time with their family members.

A thorough selection process for picking your team members has greater long - term benefits, even if this means you spend more time recruiting than you'd like to.

A millennial may finish a project on the train ride home on a cellphone, whereas a boomer may spend extra time in his or her seat at the office, getting back home to family members late.

«Bringing people in to spend time with the team, doing rounds of interviews with team members is what we do.

Or maybe your audience members are middle - aged, spend more time on Facebook than other social media outlets and have shown that they spend big on online purchases they value.

President Donald Trump has told members of his New Jersey golf club that he spends so much time away from Washington because the White House is a «real dump,» writes the AP.

After shooting off several early morning tweets, Trump spent Saturday between the White House residence and the Oval Office, speaking with his top advisers, Cabinet members, and Republican leadership about the impact of the shutdown, The New York Times reported.

The upshot of this is that members of the on - demand workforce are increasingly being required to consider more carefully how their time, both on and off the job, is spent.

He points out that while the Internet has slashed or even eliminated the price of entertainment, people have historically enjoyed many leisure activities that didn't cost much money, including taking solitary walks in the park and spending quality time with family members who weren't perpetually distracted by Twitter.

1010data found that regular Whole Foods shoppers (shopping at least six times during a 12 - month period) who are also Prime members spent an average of $ 1,371 at the grocery store over the period, $ 306 more than Whole Foods shoppers who are not Prime members.

One of the most powerful aspects of the hyper - active and serendipitous environment at 1871 are the hundreds of planned, programmed and accidental interactions, intersections and connections that are constantly taking place between the 1,600 + members, mentors, sponsors, investors, partners, educators, government officials and just plain - old visitors and guests who spend time here at the fast - beating heart of Chicago's technology ecosystem.

It could have easily spent its time blaming the supplier for the issues, but decided to take the high route and apologize to customers, team members, and partners.

David Shaw, the event's lunchtime speaker and director of Stanford's football program, adds that he has recruits spend time with team members.

Yet its CEO, Bonnie Crater, has taken an entirely different tack when it comes to her employees: She requires each and every member of her 30 - plus work force to have a hobby and spend time enjoying it.

And it is very common for me in coaching sessions with CEOs to spend an inordinate amount of time asking about team members: How is she doing?

All team members spend time learning about our core values before they ever get in front of a client — this is the foundation of everything we do.

What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.

But in my experience, it's surprising at how little time we as investors and as board members and startups as management teams spend thinking about how to create the best team dynamics.

And if we wanted to spend some time on the suject, we could probably find numerous other examples of census data being historically (and, if you believe the New York Times - that agent of the Harper government - presently) misused by governments, often to the significant prejudice of minority members of those societies.

We spent far too much time hand - holding team members through their struggles with technology or their ability to discipline themselves in this flexible environment.

Randomly selected Web - based members were e-mailed an invitation (wave 1, n = 35,256; wave 2, n = 49,363; and wave 3, n = 43,145) in which they were asked to respond to an online survey about «the various people that you spend your free time with and have important conversations with.»

In a story buried in the business section of the February 18th NY Times, it was reported that the spending budget passed by Congress included a provision that creates a 16 - member bipartisan congressional committee to craft legislation that would provide for the potential bailout of as many as 200 multi-employer» pension plans.

With our members channelling their spending power to the merchants on the BitcoinRewards platform, our members can be a part of the new financial revolution with minimum exposure to risk - a savvy way to shop and accumulate digital currency at the same time!

Indeed, incentives for commercializing are essentially seen as perverse, because if a faculty member is spending time commercializing research then, by current evaluation standards, they are not doing their real job.

The federal government has promised to keep 68,000 full - time military members and 27,000 reservists in uniform, despite declines in defence spending and the closure of 12 military recruiting centres across the country in 2013.

Many of the 55 members of the House panel spent more time making mini speeches Wednesday than giving Zuckerberg a chance to answer their questions.

House members have spent as much time playing softball and basketball as they have in session since the beginning of May.

In fact, early church leaders spent a great deal of time and effort to welcome into the fold members of ethnic groups you mention in your unenlightened post including American Indians, and African Americans.

Another member of that set is the Golden Rule, and it is this norm that (most obviously) governs the golfer's choice by defeating his reason not to spend the time required to save the tot.»

Look at every over 40 member of your church and see if any of them are spending more time ministering or discussing Jesus than they are freaking out about their gun rights or gay people or Obama.

It leaves no time for spending time with family members that aren't believers, no time for «couple time,» no time for friends, no time for rest.

Committee members spend considerable time at the house interacting informally with the residents.

Today a group of 65 church members spent considerable time at a Chinese buffet restaurant.

She and her boyfriend Tom (also a member of the youth group) have been spending a lot of time together.