Sentences with phrase «where opportunities for change»

A significant obstacle is that training often emphasizes requirements and standard procedures while providing little understanding of where opportunities for change may lie.

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It's running a program for employers, of which about 60 have signed on so far, called 100 % Talent, to help them uncover gaps in pay and in opportunity, and to make changes where necessary.

The beginning of a new year for many means a new opportunity to review some things your business is currently doing and decide where you can make adjustments or changes.

«The Presidential Medal of Freedom is not just our nation's highest civilian honor — it's a tribute to the idea that all of us, no matter where we come from, have the opportunity to change this country for the better,» Obama said in a statement posted on White House website.

But one reason our bank knows it's not true is because we've been able to spend so much time educating the people connected with our account about what's really going on and where the opportunities lie for our company, regardless of the downturn in the economy or changes in our industry,» he says.

Lise Kingo, executive director of the UNGC, knows well that business doesn't set out to do good for the sake of doing good, but has the power to effect enormous change where a business opportunity exists.

The budget's clean technology section opens by saying that the «global campaign against climate change is an economic opportunity for Canada,» an opportunity where Canada «can be a true global leader.»

Hindsight used to be 20/20; now the future is, too For the first time, you'll be able to visually project the impact of any changes you might make to your campaigns, so you can see exactly where your biggest opportunities lie.

For the second year, Walmart Canada is running the Green Student Challenge where teams of post-secondary students from across the country have an opportunity to convince some of Canada's most successful business leaders that they have the most compelling breakthrough idea to change business as we know it.

The job opportunity was for a homeless shelter where we openly serve the Lord and where I see daily how fortunate I have been and how good God can be and how he can change lives.

«Clean label» has been a rallying cry for years, but in the Instagram age — where trends and preferences change more quickly than ever — it's difficult to pin down exactly how location, culture, age and other factors are shaping the clean label movement and creating unique challenges and opportunities.

«The sustainable workbook, offered by CSWA, allows the winegrower or winemaker the opportunity to compare their operating practices to a standard, identify where changes can be accomplished and develop a sustainable work plan for improvement.

They arrived at the Bridge for a private tour of the ground, visiting the changing rooms where the likes of Hazard, Cesc Fabregas and co prepare before games before getting a photograph opportunity on the hallowed Stamford Bridge turf.

These are the changes envisaged: • comprehensive new information about the changes produced and given to both parents • midwives encouraged to inform parents about registration — and the benefits of both parents» signing • the opportunity for fathers to register ante-natally in the health service records alongside the mother • training for registrars in the new way of engaging with both parents • community outreach to reach fathers as well as mothers • an «acknowledgement of paternity» event at the birth where father and mother could jointly sign a form.

A continent where there are inspiring individuals who want to change things and where those who want to improve the lives of the poorest in the world, as well as making money, should be clamouring for opportunities to invest.

I'm looking for an opportunity to change the dialogue, to change the discussion, to talk as an insider — openly — and tell you where the problems are, where the warts are and see if we can fix them.

Yet, this one caveat aside, the result is negative for Ed Miliband's party, as the byelection showed how Ukip's likely impact in 2015 will be go beyond its overall nationwide score or concentration of support, but be about where the party has the opportunity to change a specific race's outcome.

Our goal is always be responsive to our community, providing opportunities for people to have their voice heard, facilitate change where needed and help move our county forward with broader opportunities for all.»

«Personally, I give kudos to President Buhari for introducing changes in our country; and if all of us can embrace those changes, we can confidently say that everybody irrespective of where they come from can be given an equal opportunity to play for the country.»

I'm looking for an opportunity to change the dialogue, the change the discussion, to talk as an insider — openly — and tell you where the problems are, where the warts are and see if we can fix them.

«If we are to use that authority arbitrarily or to withhold these certifications where we should be granting them, what then can happen... is there is an opportunity for the federal government to just take that process over from us and then we no longer have that authority,» Snyder said at a roundtable discussion on climate change Monday sponsored by the state Assembly.

Updegrove sounded an optimistic note that recent political changes in Albany provided an opportunity for the measures to at least receive a fair up - or - down vote on the floor of the Assembly, where former Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, had previously blocked Medicaid reform votes from ever even coming to a vote.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today declared that recent scientific advances in HIV / AIDS have created a «historic opportunity» to change the course of the pandemic and usher in a generation where no children are born with the virus, the risk of becoming infected plummets for teens and adults, and those who do become infected receive drugs that both ward off disease and make them less infectious.

The emerging global information infrastructure (GII) was a new and exciting environment full of promise and opportunity for research, education, commerce, entertainment, social change, and democratic governance, but where laws and ethical standards remained unwritten, and where individuals and institutions are still testing the bounds of acceptable behavior.

These and other recent changes in France have implications too for how and where foreign scientists should look for opportunities to join the French scientific community.

No matter where you fall on the health spectrum, you have the power to treat each moment as an opportunity for positive change.

What's exciting about this time is that we all have an opportunity to listen, and to see where changes need to be made in the examples we want to put forward for younger people.

Whether our purposes are to network with business opportunities or network for social or political purposes, we are reaching a point where the use of eLearning will be needed in order to tame and harness the forces of technological change, pedagogy, and change management which are creating a perfect storm as mentioned earlier.

More new sites will need to be allocated for educational use and increasing urban centre development and continuing changing demographics may also drive up pupil yields in areas where expansion opportunities are limited and new sites are rarely available.

Education reform is an opportunity for professionals in gifted education to recognize what works, what does not work, where «hitchhiking» on the ideas of others is wise, and to understand the changes that are needed to assure excellence in learning and character development.

«When teachers take the IPI, they get a profile of where they're stronger, where they have opportunities for improvement, and suggestions for ways they can change their practices,» said Nick Montgomery, chief research officer at PeopleAdmin.

But White speaks for many anti-Common Core parents around the country when she notes: «We've already been through eight years of «transformational change» in public education and we don't need any more... I want a [n] Education] Secretary to hand off responsibility over education to the parents where it belongs... Yet, here is DeVos «ensuring» me of «opportunities» for my children — whom she doesn't know — in order to make sure she can benevolently «give» my kids what they need to fulfill their «highest potential» — which is MY job.»

The first phase of The Writing Platform website will be launched on 12th February 2013 at O'Reilly Media's Tools of Change Author (R) evolution Day in New York where Kate Pullinger will be speaking about opportunities for writers in the digital age.

«After assessing the potential applicability of consumer protections in the mortgage and credit card markets to student loans, recommendations for statutory or regulatory changes in this area, including, where appropriate, strong servicing standards, flexible repayment opportunities for all student loan borrowers, and changes to bankruptcy laws.»

Benefiting from undervalued international companies experiencing positive change International companies: The fund invests in international large and midsize companies to benefit from business opportunities outside the United States.A value strategy: The fund focuses on companies whose stocks are priced below their long - term potential, and where there may be a catalyst for positive change.Building competitive portfolios: The portfolio manager uses fundamental research as the cornerstone of the investment process.

the European periphery is a bubble («The Euro crisis is not over... the European economies are not going to change for the better for years to come despite all the cheating and breaking of laws»), Value investors need to venture to Russia («when you look at today's opportunity set, you're left with a set of assets where nothing looks attractive from a valuation point of view») or buy gold mining stocks -LRB-» The down cycle could be much bigger than anybody believes if the market realizes that all the actions taken in recent years do not work.»)

Whether you're looking for a change of scenery or want to reevaluate where you call home, you need an area where you aren't restricted by lack of employment opportunities.

In the short space between numerous exciting projects, Gamesauce got an opportunity to speak to Blizzard's lead writer on the Diablo development team Brian Kindregan about storytelling, changes within the movie business and why he switched to the games industry, where he worked for Bioware before ending up with Blizzard.

The Lanesboro Artist Residency Program is a place - based program for emerging artists where art and the artistic process instigates positive change, addresses or creates an opportunity to move the community forward or is otherwise be central to problem - solving.

Having a forum where the comment could be written collaboratively in the open, where the author of the original paper could engage with the process, would avoid duplication of effort and for papers on contentious topics (such as climate change) demonstrate that the comment paper was scientifically motivated and that the original author had been given an opportunity to put forward their objections before the comment were submitted.

EcoPlanet is the first company to successfully industrialize bamboo, providing a proven model of successful ecosystem restoration at scale, converting thousands of acres of degraded land back into fully functioning ecosystems, reversing the negative effects of global climate change and providing thousands of marginalized people with the potential to change their own lives in areas of the world where few opportunities exist, all while reducing deforestation and forest degradation through the provision of a sustainable alternative fiber for timber and fiber manufacturing industries.

I like the fact that COTAP's certified forestry projects are located in very impoverished areas where the economic opportunities they create are changing lives for some of the poorest communities in the world.

In short, we take every opportunity possible to explain the situation for people living in communities where wind turbines and their noise emissions have been forced, without consent, on the people of Ontario, with the goal of having regulations and processes changed.

Other examples involving both risks and opportunities include changes of investment flows to regions where future climate change impacts may be beneficial for productivity Finally, some impacts that are entirely local and may have little or no direct effect outside the regions in which they occur still threaten values of global significance, and thus trigger international concern.

Dr Hoesung Lee, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), presenting on how science can enable the policy response to the Paris Agreement: «The largest opportunities for climate change action are in rapidly urbanizing countries, that is developing countries, where infrastructure have not yet set in.&Change (IPCC), presenting on how science can enable the policy response to the Paris Agreement: «The largest opportunities for climate change action are in rapidly urbanizing countries, that is developing countries, where infrastructure have not yet set in.&change action are in rapidly urbanizing countries, that is developing countries, where infrastructure have not yet set in.»

And perhaps we may have reached a point where we have done enough of identifying problems and we may have time now to see the solutions of these climate change issues, the opportunities they offer for the global community.

Forum for the Future actively monitors those opportunities to understand where change and innovation are happening, and how we can develop and catalyse solutions for sustainable nutrition.

Many of us on staff grappled with the specter of continued lifestyles and actions reflecting the status quo, which led us to host a month of intentional action where we can each consider more deeply our parts in the often destructive oil dependent systems at hand and consider opportunities for radical change.

When money comes to the courts in dribs and drabs, or when tech projects of any sort are stacked up against other priorities, it's hard to see from where the opportunity for serious planning for transformative change will come.

What You'll Do: You will do deep data dives and track metrics around our product in order to understand how it is being used, how recent changes have affected metrics, and where optimization opportunities are for our business and product.