The position, which was first created and held by Mercury astronaut Deke Slayton in 1962, oversees the activities of the astronaut corps, including managing training programs, appointing technical assignments and choosing the crews for upcoming space missions.
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"Signal didn't do a good enough job managing the training sessions, " says a person close to the situation.
No doubt, the stakes are high for C-level managers tasked with managing the company training budget.
Jon Hughes, managing director of Talk Training Ltd in Pontypridd which had booked its Christmas outing at one of the parties, said they had been suspicious because none of their cheques had been cashed.
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Throughout the summer, well-heeled guests saddle their own horses and eat steak with the cowboys, and discover that herding 400 cattle is good training for managing a business--and a heck of a lot more fun.
It is important that IT play a role in managing security, architecture and training.
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First, the body fluids must be drained and replaced with a formaldehyde-based product, said Richard Arnold, managing director of the Embalmer Training School in Britain and a qualified embalmer for 20 years.
Open source projects require the writing of code, sure, but also developing documentation and training methods, managing and researching communities of users, testing the quality of existing code and designing the interfaces and interactions of user experience.
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My job was managing the leadership and customer service training for the volunteers and staff, and luckily that same trainer eventually reported to me.
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Lazarus Karasavvidis, the 35-year-old managing director of international recruitment and training firm Skillup Australia in Melbourne, said he has been fielding a flood of calls from students and professionals in Greece seeking information on how to get work in Australia.
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The boycott of training led to FFF's managing director Jean-Louis Valentin quitting his post.
"We know that most GPS watches on the market are too bulky and complicated to use while training" said Corinne Vigreux, managing director, TomTom Consumer.
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Managing emotions is a huge part of sports training on which athletes spend a considerable amount of time, energy and money through a variety of techniques, from yoga and meditation to mindfulness.
Managing stress takes a lot of work on top of training to become the fastest hurdler in the world or the best on the beam.
As the guesswork of managing IT is removed, so are the days of lengthy training to learn and understand machine language.
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To achieve this, companies may need to implement new reporting tools and offer training that enables employees to make the transition from managing data to using it.
Creation and implementation of some permanent instruments for raising and managing financial resources, communication and information tools, capacity building and training activities, and project planning and monitoring.
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Until companies invest in training those in a managerial capacity how to be great at managing, this will always be an issue of why your employees constantly have one foot out the door.
Though in-house programs tend to be more expensive and labor-intensive than educational partnerships or bringing in external trainers, they are usually "much more customized and tailored to your organizational needs, regardless of whether it's a very technical training or even about business negotiation, " says Donna Weiss, managing director at the Corporate Executive Board.
For companies, there is no upside , just extra work coding and testing their custom apps, and more time for training, device testing, deployment, assessing security risks, and overall managing the devices.
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An engineer by training, the 51-year-old got his start in politics by managing the 1974 Upper House campaign of the late Fusae Ichikawa, Japan's leading feminist politician who championed equality of the sexes, shunned political parties and aided the fight against corruption.
His training in economics, finance and marketing, he reckons, taught him invaluable lessons in managing foreign brands, including ways to choose the right distribution channels and the subtleties of pricing strategy.
The management company charges a fee for managing the aircraft, but many aircraft owners assert that the discounts they obtain on insurance, fuel and training based on economies of scale and bulk buying power often exceed the fees charged.
The revised training, which will begin from September 2012, will focus on pupil behaviour, leadership skills and managing teacher performance.
Amy Mole, managing director of the UK's Bird's Eye View Film Festival - which showcases female talent and features training labs to help women film-makers - agrees.
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