Sentences with phrase «traditional focus groups»

That doesn't always happen in traditional focus groups.

Instead of traditional focus groups, Smart Design uses informal «girl chats» with wine and snacks to get women to open up.

The ICM study used a panel of 100 floating voters, so while it was much larger than a traditional focus group, it was still more of a qualitative poll than a quantative one.

Not exact matches

We offer a full - range of group conditioning and technique - focused classes, functional training, personal training, traditional martial arts coaching, plus fitness, youth and family classes, so everyone can find their fit.

Neuromarketers claim that such methods are more cost effective, but even more important — much more efficient than traditional methods such as focus groups.

Social media monitoring and asking questions in social channels is quick, easy and less expensive than traditional surveys and focus groups.

«A traditional press release focuses on a product launch or putting a product into seasonal contact, and the main purpose is to either get print coverage or blog coverage,» says Michelle Olson, an account director at New York's The Lane Communications Group, where she focuses on beauty and skin care companies.

For a healthcare client, these techniques allowed us to find and understand the experience of subjects who would be unlikely to participate in more traditional research methods such as focus groups or surveys.

We focus on advanced research techniques as well as traditional on - line surveys and focus groups to better understand loyal base voters as well as swing, independent and persuadable Democrats and Republicans.

«It is complementary to traditional methods such as eye - tracking and focus groups, bringing into play an automated, predictive model for determining visual effectiveness in the creative process.»

He has dispensed with a traditional campaign launch at a press conference as the group seeks to focus attention on its website, which aims to win over young wavering voters in the higher income groups who might be put off a campaign to leave.

But today's active mathematical biologists must participate in — in addition to their traditional conferences — annual meetings of major biological professional societies, specialty conferences, as well as in focus groups (see Next Wave's article by Fred Roberts, and specialty workshops.

According to Tanner, traditional teaching often focuses on a lecture that's delivered by a faculty member to a group of students.

When you only do traditional weight lifting, you have to focus on hitting every muscle group... otherwise you look uneven or undeveloped in some areas.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

Central to the new approach is the notion that this group of young people are turned off by traditional academic education with a focus on pathways into higher education and that these young people need to be energised by a different approach to education which sees the world of work at its core.

The authors conducted focus group sessions with parents of school - age children enrolled in traditional public and charter schools.

While DeVos» group, the Great Lakes Education Project, supported most of the changes, it pushed back hard against a proposed Detroit commission focused on improving both charters and traditional schools, contending it would be beholden to the city's mayor and school - district officials.

Union leaders say they'd like to see a superintendent with a career in education; a history of collaboration with various local groups, including employees; and a commitment to focusing on the success of traditional public schools.

Yet there is also evidence of a shift in focus for parent group planning, with traditional community - building activities doing double duty as ways to guide parents in helping their children with specific skills.

There will be some that may take issue, but if you're striving for new buyers, you can't focus on pleasing a more traditional buying group that is shrinking.

In his remarks to a group from the National Association of Realtors, Mulvaney said traditional lenders have the benefit of institutional knowledge about their borrowers, which sets them apart from a more online - focused lender.

The focus of the group is on equine fracture repair, arthritis, biocompatibility evaluation of traditional and biological orthopedic devices, muscle / tendon disease and repair, methods for preventing or treating orthopedic infections, peri-operative pain management, canine gait analysis and pediatric orthopedic conditions.

Thomas Cook China's focus is on the growing Chinese travel market, as Chinese consumers start to move away from traditional group tours towards more premium, personalised experiences.

They're very traditional, and very focused on hierarchy and group decision making.

Rather than assembling a group of artists who are concentrating on the demise of traditional painting supports — torn, shredded or punctured canvasses, exposed stretcher bars, paintings hung backwards, oddly shaped canvases, painting as sculpture, etc... this exhibition will focus on works that address time as a subject, or are time - sensitive.

The exhibition focuses on a core group — Louise Bourgeois, Minna Citron, Worden Day, Dorothy Dehner, Sue Fuller, Alice Trumbull Mason, Louise Nevelson and Anne Ryan — all who bent traditional printmaking rules and explored uncharted aesthetic terrain in various intaglio and relief printing techniques.

The Archive of Affect is a group exhibition with performances that focus on rewriting, challenging, or expanding traditional archives and histories.

NURTUREart presents The Archive of Affect, a group exhibition with performances that focus on rewriting, challenging, or expanding traditional archives and histories.

Leigh A. Arnold curates this group show of «of women artists whose work focuses on challenging traditional gender expectations, role - reversal, and Feminist / post-Feminist sensibilities.»

Rather than assembling a group of artists who are concentrating on the demise of traditional painting supports - torn, shredded or punctured canvasses, exposed stretcher bars, paintings hung backwards, oddly shaped canvasses, painting as sculpture, etc... this exhibition will focus on works that address time as a subject, or are time - sensitive.

The presented works form two groups: one based on playing with the traditional marine painting with its focus on the expressive and aesthetic potential of the sea, and the other, in which the sea is neither the object of study nor the main protagonist but rather the backdrop for the action.

This would involve moving beyond the message Obama largely adopted from traditional Washington - based environmental groups, focused on a comprehensive climate and energy bill.

Traditional campaigns to protect wildlife tend to be conducted species by species, focused on, say, pandas or gray wolves, or on specific hot spots like Madagascar or on groups of species like whales.

I looked into the tale of the laid - off rodent as part of my undergraduate thesis focused on the transition at the conservation group from traditional communication efforts relying on coverage in newspapers or television networks to mastering social media.

In its short report, the working group proposes a deal that would focus on environmental and other regulations alleged to interfere with free market efficiency, rather than traditional trade issues such as lowering tariffs.

If the other courses of first - year students are taught in the traditional way, the professor using my approach will need to be up - front about why he or she uses this approach and how it is part of a course that focuses on lawyering, not just the learning of doctrine.41 Collaborating with other faculty teaching the same group may be useful in validating the experience of reviewing transactional documents and developing lawyering skills of the transactional attorney.

Regional IT Manager • Manage HQ infrastructure team and Asia information technology team, leading 11 staff in the servicing of over 800 users and 9 offices with responsibility for global infrastructure architecture and global network and focus groups • Drive global standardization firm - wide within networks, storage, backup, servers, computers and other critical hardware • Utilize cross-regional focus groups to connect functional experts between sites, establishing roadmaps, creating annual project plans and delivering global projects • Define incident management and change management processes, working with application teams for full implementation • Create datacenter in ShenZhen technology center to support ASIC team, software team, firmware team, hardware team and sales and FAE teams • Manage high volume of acquisitions and IT integrations on a global scale, including the CSR integration preparation (2011), the Microtune integration (2010), the Letitwave integration in France (2008) and the Emblaze Semiconductor in Israel (2004) • Supervise and lead numerous technology refresh projects including the global Exchange 2010 upgrade, the global MPLS network upgrade, the network switch upgrade, a global firewall project and internet bandwidth upgrade • Execute critical operations functions and projects including global wireless technology management, network monitoring, the global SSL VPN project, the management of Microsoft licenses and the e-mail gateway • Support critical business continuity tasks, including the development of a low - cost Oracle ERP system DR solution, server virtualization, E-mail DR and Perforce DR • Lead cost - saving and expense management endeavors including the build - up of a Quintum VoIP gateway globally to utilize traditional PBX gateway and the build - up of near - line archive storage with de-duplication technologic

Unlike traditional group psychotherapy which focuses on processing experiences and feelings, DBT groups focus on learning five sets of important skills:

It found that capacity - building was crucial to the establishment of the PBC, focusing on developing the group's decision - making skills and creating a transparent governance process that addressed the needs of traditional people living in an urban environment.

As the Native Title Report 2003 detailed, a common theme of state and federal native title policies as they currently exist is a preference for negotiation over litigation.180 This agreement - focus provides an invaluable opportunity for governments and traditional owner groups to ensure that native title agreements respond as far as possible to the economic and social development needs of the native title claimant group rather than just the demands of the legal system.

In the consultation material set out in chapter 1, discussions under section 8, Effective Relationships, focus on those relationships that might benefit traditional owner groups in achieving their development goals including relationships with the private sector and their peak bodies, government agencies, NTRBs, individuals, and the National Native Title Tribunal.

Native title agreements directed to achieving the development goals of the group should seek to enhance the rights and interests of traditional owners, rather than focus on the limited expression of these rights in native title law or the extinguishment of native title rights.

(4) It was also discussed in Chapter 3 how many state Governments are conducting native title negotiations within this narrow legal framework by focusing primarily on the settlement of native title claims rather than the economic and social development of the traditional owner group.

Discussions focused on the process of development might include the issue of time frames and how long it might take the traditional owner group to identify its objectives and develop capacity to engage effectively with the development process.

One of the most common misperceptions is that early childhood mental health consultation is just like «traditional» mental health interventions that focus on direct therapy for an individual child or group of children.

These are important considerations for native title negotiations that focus on resolving legal issues rather than responding to these issues in a way that also addresses the broader interests of the traditional owner group.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Parents and children were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups: family - focused cognitive behavioral therapy (the Building Confidence Program) or traditional child - focused CBT with minimal family involvement for children with anxiety disorders.

The Applied Developmental Psychology Research Group at Cambridge is internationally known for its research on the capacities of child witnesses and offenders and on the developmental determinants of psychological adjustment in childhood and adolescence, with particular focus on parent - child relationships in traditional and non-traditional families.

There were three randomly - assigned conditions — an opportunity to use our staff as consultants once a year (the control group), a couples group that emphasized parent - child relationships during the open - ended part of the evenings (the more traditional approach), or a couples group that focused more on the relationship between the parents during the open - ended parts.