Sentences with phrase «when taking on tasks»

This makes learners feel more involved and purposeful when taking on the tasks of the gamified learning environment.

When I took on the task of creating a healthier morning cafe for Hubby, I started with high quality organic coffee beans, the low acid variety, which is then ground them up fresh and «cold - pressed».

«When I took on the task of becoming speaker, I knew that anything I've done or anything I will do in this job will be scrutinized,» Heastie said.

When taking on the task of searching for job, you want every tool you can have in your toolkit.

Jan is a breath of fresh air and no nonsense when she takes on the task of getting you ready to present to the world your best self - touting your background, experience and the real you!

Not exact matches

It's taking on the tasks and assignments that have a steep learning curve that tend to deliver the key insights and guideposts to helping them build their career of their dreams - even if they didn't always know what to expect when they took it on.

This «self - efficacy,» as psychologists refer to it, can motivate people to take on tasks that other people would deem impossible, and to stick with them even when the going gets tough.

When they take a little extra time and effort to focus on the best way to tackle daily tasks, their companies can become unstoppable.

When your employees truly own their tasks and projects, you can take those items off your plate: Instead of feeling that you need to check up on people, they'll come to you when they have problems or need guidaWhen your employees truly own their tasks and projects, you can take those items off your plate: Instead of feeling that you need to check up on people, they'll come to you when they have problems or need guidawhen they have problems or need guidance.

She drew on that experience a few years later when, as a junior at Harvard in 2011, she was taking an engineering class for non-engineers and was tasked with inventing a product that served a social good.

And when you're tasked with building and launching spacecraft millions or even billions of miles from Earth, on missions that take several years, long - term planning is pretty critical.

«We've watched this happen to director Lexi Alexander and screenwriter Julie Bush when they published their respective exposes on sexism in the film business,» they added, referring to blog posts by Alexander and Bush that risked backlash (and blacklisting) by taking the entertainment industry to task.

On Friday, for example, Jim Cramer took the board to task on CNBC, demanding, «When will someone finally be held accountable for this kind of sub-par performance and why do corporate boards tolerate these mistakes, keeping the flailing CEOs of these two companies [McDonald's and UPS] around for still more earnings seasons?&raquOn Friday, for example, Jim Cramer took the board to task on CNBC, demanding, «When will someone finally be held accountable for this kind of sub-par performance and why do corporate boards tolerate these mistakes, keeping the flailing CEOs of these two companies [McDonald's and UPS] around for still more earnings seasons?&raquon CNBC, demanding, «When will someone finally be held accountable for this kind of sub-par performance and why do corporate boards tolerate these mistakes, keeping the flailing CEOs of these two companies [McDonald's and UPS] around for still more earnings seasons?»

When Noah Kagan took on the position of Director of Marketing at Mint he was tasked with getting 100,000 users within the first six months of launching.

Context switching is, basically, the time it takes you to refocus on a task when you're interrupted.

When others began to take Tony to task for this all - too - familiar behavior on his part, Tony became increasingly defensive and condescending, and so others began to join in the discussion to wonder at Tony's rapid return to his old form after what was meant to be something of a restorative sabbatical from the internet.

Additionally, when pastors take on politics from the pulpit, they're essentially placing politics at the level of the pulpit's primary task — preaching the Gospel.

Difficult or not, however, evaluation is one of the tasks we take on when we begin thinking theologically.

When the Court takes on itself the task of engineering social policy, rather than faithful constitutional interpretation, it tends to do both tasks badly — witness both Dred Scott and Plessy.

You see, raw foods (fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and a few others), consumed in the same state as we'd find them in nature (technically, nothing heated above 115F46 C), are considered to provide optimum nutritional value while retaining the natural enzymes that may help us to digest those same foods (when foods are cooked, your pancreas must take on this monumental task on its own — not too much fun for the l'il pancreas).

Having missed out on taking him to the Emirates, Wenger will now be tasked with coming up with a plan to negate Costa's threat and ensure that he isn't decisive yet again when the two teams meet on Saturday evening.

Knost was in that first group and had every right to be ticked off Friday morning when he took tournament organizers to task on Twitter after he set out for his second round of the PGA Championship with the wrong pin sheet.

When I try to work on more than one thing at a time it takes longer to complete both tasks.

Girls love their handbags, but when you become a mother and you're tasked with the organization of the family, they take on a far more practical nature.

In order to better help your child cope with the hard task of becoming more independent and learning how to sleep on his own, be sure that you take moments during the day when you are not in the throes of working out a sleep problem to talk about it.

When my oldest takes the attention off of «winning» and instead becomes the teacher, both kids seem to focus more on the task and less on the competition.

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Gov. George Pataki, both of whom were in office when the Twin Towers were attacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, are taking members of their party to task, calling on them to pass the 9/11 health care bill.

Africa's bid to stem widespread corruption took a decisive turn on Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia when the African Union, AU placed on President Muhammadu Buhari, the task of championing the war throughout continent.

To prevent the latter scenario from taking hold, Spitzer's task now is to continue to create space between himself and Weiner in the minds of voters — an effort which began at the very start of his campaign when he denied that the success of Weiner's redemptive campaign had any bearing on his decision to run.

The measure was introduced by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who was taken to task by the DN (a big champion of the bill) when it endorsed her unsuccessful primary challenger, Reshma Saujani, for not pushing harder to get the Obama administration on board.

While the baker excoriated both candidates as corporate - backed elists whose policies were misaligned with that of the working class, he focused the brunt of his attacks on Woolf, who opted to ignore him, even up until the second debate, when Funiciello took him to task for it.

For example, most of us may take for granted being able to hear co-workers when collaborating on a task.

The study found that the children's performance in fifth grade could be explained, in part, by how they did on the third grade planning task, even when taking IQ into consideration.

But when we have any two simple decisions to make, we must wait for the first task to move through a bottleneck before taking on the second.

If an agent does not arrive when needed and expected, queens can generate new copies that take over the lost agent's task, just as a garden ant picks up the trail left by its sister before she got trodden on.

When such faultlines appear, the research predicts that employees will be less willing to take on new tasks that help their company — or more generally to put in extra effort at work.

When the researchers examined visual memory for specific objects, they found that participants who were able to take pictures performed better on visual memory tasks regardless of whether the objects in question were the most or least photographed.

The average chemist, for example, finishes postdoctoral work and takes a permanent job at about age 33, said NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Sally Rockey, who was on the working group and headed the NIH task force charged with implementing the recommendations, at last week's meeting; biomedical scientists, on average, are about 6 years older than chemists when they attain a tenure - track faculty post.

When humans stood upright, they took a spine that had evolved to be stiff for climbing and moving in trees and rotated it 90 degrees, so it was vertical — a task Latimer compared to stacking 26 cups and saucers on top of each other (vertebrae and discs) and then, balancing a head on top.

By taking on this role, the meaning of the words can be recognised nearly as fast as when the appropriate area fulfils its task.

How is it that when I eat a steak or burrito, I need to take a nap, and when I'm on day 4 of starving myself, I'm flying from one task to another?

«My best friend — and when I'm lucky enough, running partner — knows that cheerleading or motivational speeches aren't going to work on me, so she'll purposely talk and talk without requiring much of a response from me in an attempt to take my mind off of the running task at hand,» Woods says.

When you are constantly zooming in on the details without taking a beat between tasks, it's easy to lose sight of the bigger picture.

It requires setting a timer (I just use my iPhone) for 25 minutes and working on a single task without distraction for those 25 minutes, followed by a 3 - 5 minute break (when I'll let Rory outside, refill my water, or take a Pinterest break).

I've been taking antibiotics and painkillers and all of that made me so sleepy that every day I went to bed latest by 9 pm:O Evenings are when I'm the most productive and when I get enough time to take care of some blog / photography, etc. related tasks that I don't get to solve during the day, so I've got waaaay behind on everything thanks to sleeping «too much».

When you're a product junkie like myself, choosing which items to take with you on vacation can be a daunting task.

It will allow you to feel less irritable and be capable of taking on even the most mundane task when you put yourself first.

Director Paul W.S. Anderson strived to take on the task when he began production on the new movie «The Three Musketeers,» based on the 1844 novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas.

On September 12, when Mark Harris officially returned to Grantland to cover the Oscar race (he stepped aside last season due to the conflict of husband Tony Kushner's Lincoln being in contention), he penned this dead - on and intentionally prickly piece, which took to task the festival - going, hastily - Tweeting types who hurried to declare 12 Years a Slave this year's Best Picture winneOn September 12, when Mark Harris officially returned to Grantland to cover the Oscar race (he stepped aside last season due to the conflict of husband Tony Kushner's Lincoln being in contention), he penned this dead - on and intentionally prickly piece, which took to task the festival - going, hastily - Tweeting types who hurried to declare 12 Years a Slave this year's Best Picture winneon and intentionally prickly piece, which took to task the festival - going, hastily - Tweeting types who hurried to declare 12 Years a Slave this year's Best Picture winner.

When Ai speaks to Blathers, he typically begins a lecture on a dinosaur skeleton of a T - Rex, while Celeste is seen taking Ai away to The Roost to complete a delivery task set by Tom Nook.