Sentences with phrase «wanted behavior more»

Not exact matches

«You want to track customer behavior when acquiring new customers both to gain the most out of that user and to get more users like them,» Veilleux says.

Since Wall Street usually expresses its priorities by rewarding, through higher compensation, the behavior it seeks, the firms that are offering more money to women and ethnic minorities appear to be sending the message that they want to change what historically has been a white male dominated business.

If you want someone to change a behavior (or become more inclined to taking a desired action), then you can «model» it with a story.

We all know that good feedback is essential to cultivating the behaviors and outcomes we want while correcting those we don't, but what makes some people more effective at feedback than others?

If you want more happiness and joy in your life than smiling is definitely a good start, since other things mentioned above require not just change in your behavior but also your mindset.

More often than not, there's a gulf between what your client will say they want, and what their behavior reveals about what they actually want.

«Americans want rewards that recognize them for their everyday banking actions, including daily spending, as well as activities they consider more responsible investment behaviors, such as investing for retirement,» says Aron Levine, head of preferred banking at Merrill Edge, a division of Bank of America.

But if tech firms want to get serious about hiring, retaining, and promoting more women, they'll need something more effective than sensitivity or mentoring programs that «fix» individual behavior, and longer lasting than cultural change programs.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

All this hate talk made me realize I want to learn more about what Tim Tebow is talking about... it seems he's the only one modeling the behavior I would most like to live myself.

Her origins are in the black folk expression «You acting womanish,» meaning, according to Walker, «wanting to know more and in greater depth than is good for one — outrageous audacious, courageous and willful behavior.»

Seems like if you wanted people to convert to your perspective (on civil matters or religion), you'd try to make your behavior a little more attractive.

Since kids learn from our behaviors and we want them to learn organizational skills that are needed for life, take time to determine how you can add more organization and preparation to your daily routine.

And it can be a lot more fun to find things to praise a child for than it is to find things we want to correct in their behavior!

Link good behavior to incentives that your tween will want to earn and she'll become more responsible.

He may want to nurse all the time, because the sucking behavior soothes him when his tummy hurts, but the more he nurses, the more miserable he becomes.

MINDFUL MAKERS is a professional development program for preschools and elementary schools wanting to create a more safe and nurturing learning environment for students, even in the face of challenging behavior.

She began her project with the commonly held mindset that children are over-medicated through a collusion between parents, who want their childrens» behavior to change, and psychiatrists, who are more than happy to whip out the prescription pad.

Identify positive behavior that you want to see more often.

Remember, though not all gifted children are alike, so not every gifted child will have all of these behaviors, but if some of these behaviors sound familiar, you might want to learn more about gifted kids!

Identify a behavior you want to see more often, like «doing chores,» or «keeping chores to yourself.»

Positive reinforcement — using praise or rewards to shape your child's behavior — means «focusing on the «good» things your children are doing or certain behaviors that you like and that you want to see more of,» explains Melanie Rudnick, a New York City - based parenting expert and conscious parenting coach.

By giving your child plenty of positive attention, you'll reduce attention seeking behaviors and your child will be more inclined to want to follow your rules when you maintain a healthy relationship.

Identify behaviors you want to see more of, such as getting ready for school on time or getting homework done before dinner.

When you're consistent, your child thinks more about his behavior — and thinking is what you want.»

His teacher recently emailed me; she'd noticed a change in his behavior (more belligerent, less likely to cooperate) and wanted to know if there was anything going on at home.

Telling children which behaviors you do — and don't — want to see actually makes kids feel more secure, because it reminds them that you're in charge and guides them to the areas where they should be developing their skills and independence (such as playing with the plastic tea set and not trying to touch the real one.)

Firts I totally agree with u I also among you but new trick I use is I made a chart of the month and each day I make a dot of green n red green denotes good behavior and red denotes bad behavior and I told ma kids end of the month green count more will receive the gift so now they has to decide want gift and also told them respecting is the best reward to parents so do think when they fought and this way I also stop yelling

MORE great treat if you need to distract your pup when company arrives or you want to reward him or her with a treat for good behavior.

For example, if you want your children to take more responsibility for brushing their teeth, you might post a behavior modification chart in the bathroom where they can add a check mark each time they remember.

Add to this the lack of long - term effectiveness (kids have been shown to become more defiant in the long run and the lesson they learn is how to avoid pain, not how to regulate their own behavior and learn how to want to make the right choices) makes corporal punishment a very ineffective long - term solution to any behavioral problem in kids.

Sometimes, a child may exhibit defiant behavior because he wants to have more say in when or how he does things.

Shame - based parenting behaviors may be subtle, hidden in seemingly innocent messages meant to encourage cooperation from our children, like «You should know better than that,» «Nice girls don't do that,» «Good boys do this,» or «You already had enough; you shouldn't want more.»

These phrases, while not abrasive, are still implying that a child is having thoughts that are «wrong» or «bad,» when actually, anyone can have whatever thoughts they desire — what we as parents really want is for children to be able to discern which behavior would be more aligned with the values we hope to be passing down to them.

For example, if you've got a young child who wants to spend time online, you may want to monitor his or her behavior and activity a little bit more than you would if the same child was reading a book or playing privately instead.

And while most parents would say they want to raise compassionate kids, they might be surprised to discover just how little they're actually modeling the behaviors they hope to pass on — qualities such as unconditional love, gentleness, forgiveness, patience, gratitude, humility, and more.

Put in the sleep manner chart the behavior you want to see more of.

Instead, she wanted to learn more about the biology behind female mosquitoes» host - seeking behaviors.

«There's an argument, which I don't fully buy but that could be made, that whether there was intention to deceive is irrelevant, and the only thing that matters in meting out punishment is whether one should build on the results or ignore them,... but if you want to inculcate the norms of proper behavior and to deter and maybe filter out of science the people who are more likely to engage in misconduct, then that differential penalty is warranted.»

Instead phrases like «the scrub jay wants to do this, decides that this is the right time,» and so on, are shorthand for the more correct but cumbersome, «Over the course of evolution, scrub jays who, at least in part through genetically influenced mechanisms, are better able to optimize the timing of their behavior leave more copies of their genes, thus making this attribute more prevalent in the population.»

More customers are turning to this lower - quality, lower - price channel, and one UT Dallas researcher wanted to know how shopping at outlet stores influences customer behavior at retail stores.

In these scenarios, the offended party is more likely to want their partner to passively disengage by halting adversarial behavior and relinquishing power.

«We ask how that can influence consumer behavior and in what situations might marketers want to smile more broadly.»

You want to reinforce behaviors that inhibit the old bad habits — do something else, spend your time more productively,» he said.

We want to learn more about how these forces affect anatomy, behavior and microbiology,» said the paper's corresponding author, Michael Levin, Ph.D., Vannevar Bush professor of biology and director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology.

«We wanted to see whether already early childhood differences in language outcomes, such as age of speaking words, are predictive of drinking behaviors, and if so, whether better verbal development predicts less or more drinking,» he said.

«I'd want to know more about the mechanism» by which the bacteria altered behavior in the mice before beginning to translate the findings to humans, he says.

Studies have shown that when those in authority communicate a standard of behavior to people and then allow those people to decide how they want to work on meeting that standard, they are more successful in achieving the goal.

The foundation wants to change driver behavior, a challenge more complex than banning phones, he says.

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