Sentences with phrase «while focusing on performance»

Senior Human Resources Advisor 5/1/2003 — 4/1/2012 Entercomm — Raleigh, NC Built performance effectiveness with groups while focusing on performance and employee management, team development, talent management and recruiting, and change management.

While the focus on performance has become a central one in 2012, we found a group of four artists across different...

While the focus on performance has become a central one in 2012, we found a group of four artists across different mediums — from sculpture, painting, film and living installation — each dynamic in their own right.

Not exact matches

While conducting research for their book, The Mind of the Leader, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter interviewed more than 1,000 leaders and found that practicing mindfulness, meaning a focus on the present, achieved by meditation and other techniques, helped those leaders engage with their employees, create better connections and improve company performance.

While it's tempting to narrow in solely on results, it's better to focus on improving performance, and to spend resources refining the internal strategies that are responsible for creating the results.

A 2009 study published in Science found that when people saw the color red while they were focusing on certain tasks, their performance, memory and attention to detail improved.

«Our performance reflects the strength of an organization that is focused on delivering against its financial commitments while also making substantial structural and cultural changes.»

Valeant is a diverse organization committed to focusing on our key stakeholders while delivering consistently high performance.

This mix of short - and long - term incentives provides sufficient rewards in the short - term to motivate near - term performance, while at the same time providing significant incentives to keep HP's executives focused on longer - term corporate goals that drive stockholder value.

We maintain a culture of collaboration and respect while being focused on accountability and performance.

While the world has been laser - focused on the woes of the heavily - indebted PIIGS nations for the last couple of years, property markets in Northern and Western European countries have been bubbling up to dizzying new heights in a repeat performance of the very property bubbles that caused the global financial crisis in the first place.

While senior sales professionals focus heavily on «total income potential» — meaning they consider performance - based commissions and bonuses heavily in their decision - making — in our experience new graduates are a little more risk averse and often lean toward the biggest salary.

While we expect many of the first quarter's headwinds to be transitory, our focus remains on diversifying our portfolio across different end markets, macroeconomic influences and company - specific factors that we believe can contribute to long - term performance regardless of the overall direction of the US economy.

Annual incentive compensation and a portion of performance - based restricted units focus on short - term performance while the balance of performance - based restricted units and the other components of performance - based pay are tied to achievement of financial targets and stock price performance over a longer period of time.

WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 8, 2011 — DuPont Packaging continued to focus its technical expertise on innovative ways to drive out cost and weight while improving performance at a Technical Exchange during PACK EXPO 2011.

The products presented at Packaging Innovations place their focus on consumer convenience as well as sustainability, while fulfilling the customers» expectations towards weight - optimised, high performance, closures for various packaging types.

By working together, member companies focus on improving compliance performance while avoiding duplication of social compliance audits.

I'm betting there will be a much bigger focus on the CL performances and losses than the fact we're 3 pts from the top... While neglecting the fact that the financial muscle they all want flexed so badly is only now a possibility due to the careful planning and years of competing with the big spenders of the league while laying the foundations for a better fuWhile neglecting the fact that the financial muscle they all want flexed so badly is only now a possibility due to the careful planning and years of competing with the big spenders of the league while laying the foundations for a better fuwhile laying the foundations for a better future.

And while the boss spoke about the good options that he now has all over the pitch, he has called on today's starting line - up to embrace the competitive nature of playing for Arsenal and put in a fully focused performance as the club heads into a really vital stage of the season.

But while frustrated not to have finished higher than expected, French insists she must focus on the positives from her performance.

While others may be focussed on the manager's performance elsewhere, this is definitely something that I'll be keeping my eye on.

While counselors might have to spend a lot of time focusing on individual education plans, testing, and other educational issues, school personnel should also be available to talk with children about emotional issues that affect their performance and demeanor at school.

It was a strategy he utilized at the string of forums beginning last summer, where his performances appeared to lean on focus group - tested attempts to hit all the sweet spots to appeal to an activated base while voicing righteous indignation with Washington in carefully - polished soundbites.

While the study focused on lithium - ion batteries, the scientists say the observed phenomenon may also occur in other high - performance battery chemistries.

Some leading researches suggest that higher taurine levels correlate with improved mental functioning, including mental performance and mood, while others focus on its positive effect on athletic performance.

While the supplement is focused on people above 35 - 40 who are looking to naturally increase their nitric oxide levels, regulate blood pressure and heart health, professional bodybuilders and athletes can also use it to improve their performance.

Her lifelong work has focused on application of scientific principles to enhance alignment and movement performance while lowering injury risk.

Much of the current research in the nutrition field that focuses on protein intake as it relates to body composition, strength and general performance has shown that while breaking your protein intake down into hourly feedings is overkill and provides no benefits, there is some level of benefit to dividing your daily protein intake amongst your meals for the day and trying to eat at least every 4 - 5 hours.

Subsequently, recommendations typically focus on maintaining adequate fat intake while emphasizing carbohydrate to fuel performance and protein to build and repair LBM.

While Elephant, on one hand, focused on the time and space factors that converge unrelated people to those tragic incidents, Uwe Boll is more concerned about the characters - and this is a sympathetic and surprisingly moving drama that relies on decent performances.

While it embraces a scope slightly beyond the reach of the critically hailed play, however, it also smartly never pulls focus on a performance for the ages that achieves the polar opposite of the presidential pantomime antics on display in Lee Daniels» The Butler.

Rating: 8/10 — featuring Pacino's most effective and rewarding screen performance for some time, Paterno rightly keeps its focus on its leading character while also exposing the hypocrisy and deception going on around him; an intelligent but modest drama that packs an emotional wallop when it needs to, it's also a movie that successfully avoids being exploitative or insensitive.

Quality Mode puts a focus on the game's visuals while Performance Mode lowers the game's resolution in order to maintain a better framerate.

While the movie's focus is not solely on Green's character, his ability to bring this complex performance to life definitely makes him stand out from the bunch.

Did you find it challenging to focus on important areas, such as the lead performances, while still deal with the technicalities and shooting the different takes?

While it focuses less on «finding those responsible» and more on «dealing with the trauma» of these incidents, it is definitely swinging for the fences in terms of Oscar - bait kind of performances.

The group covers a lot of ground, while trying not to repeat the information dispensed in the substantial making - of video and focusing more on performances than technical aspects.

While we have focused on tweaking it, mostly this is for performance improvements in the current resolution, not to target a higher resolution.

The GRC analysis also differs from those of Hanushek et al. in that the latter focus on students performing at the advanced or proficient level, while we focused on the average student performance in both math and reading.

For example, while the Teacher Incentive Fund has historically focused on compensating teachers for their performance, we should also encourage districts to start compensating more teachers based on the difficulty of their job and the supply of people who can do it well.

Unfortunately, not every student can benefit from advanced education, and it could well be that the best way to increase performance is to reduce the number of students included in these programs while continuing to focus on bringing all students to international standards.

While we in Massachusetts appreciate the outstanding performance achieved by our students and educators, we have been sharply focused on the sad story our outstanding averages conceal.

As Morgan Polikoff and other accountability scholars have argued, «a narrow focus on proficiency rates incentivizes schools to focus on those students near the proficiency cut score, while an approach that takes into account all levels of performance incentivizes a focus on all students.»

With two pathways available — Music (performance) or Music Technology — the BTEC curriculum allows students to focus on units that are appropriate to their own musical specialism, while exploring topics as varied as ensemble skills, composition, music theory and business.

So while focusing on eLearning effectiveness we should also focus on the eLearning course's performance objective.

Many Instructional Designers focus on the business objective of the organization while developing any eLearning curriculum, as business objectives can be achieved via the performance objective of the learners.

In the words of Gloria Gery, a key proponent of Performance Support, «Performance Support focuses on work itself while training focuses on the learning required to do the work.

Implementing performance - based funding policies would create incentives for e-schools to focus on what matters most — academic progress — while tempering their appetite for enrollment growth and the dollars tied to it.

It includes 4 SOW and delivery PowerPoints to engage KS3 pupils in performance, appreciation and choreography tasks while focusing on professional works from the GCSE Dance anthology.

It is in this vein that we submit these comments, which are not intended to reflect the entirety of our concerns with the proposed regulations, but rather to illustrate where they impede progress toward ESSA's overall goal: to provide states with maximum flexibility while ensuring a focus on improving performance, equity and access, and improvement for all students.