Sentence examples for tough staff from inspiring English sources

By making some tough staff decisions, streamlining product and service offerings, standardising procedures and putting in new systems to help staff provide consistently high service for customers, Chris has developed a business which is in much better physical and financial shape than before.

"This is a tough staff," Elise Guest, who was then principal of Menlo Park Elementary School, told me.

Whether the commission carries out this mandate, Pecora-style, will depend entirely on who its chair and members are, and whether they hire a tough staff.

As you may have heard, today we had to make some tough staffing decisions as we ended the run of a few of our shows.

Sales targets were tough, and staff incentivised to push loans with profitable payment protection insurance (PPI) attached.

This family dynamic stood Prezzybox in good stead when times became tough, as staff really went the extra mile to make sure Prezzybox survived the economic crisis".

Sengupta, who never regained consciousness, was identified with the help of Tough Mudder staff members and the sheriff's department before he was transferred by helicopter from the area hospital to Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va.

Abreu's bloop single to shallow center field scored Melky Cabrera to cap a comeback for the Yankees, who edged the Blue Jays, 3-2, to win their first series of the season against a tough pitching staff.

Phil Angelides, the former California treasurer who is the inquiry's chairman, told me in interviews late last year that he has been busy deploying a tough investigative staff and will not allow the proceedings to devolve into a typical blue-ribbon Beltway exercise in toothless bloviation.

The authority's leader Councillor Jane Scott said: "It's tough on staff but we have to deal with this issue and everybody knows... that we have to deal with the financial crisis in this country".

I found it hard to give tough messages to staff, and especially if I knew these staff members were working hard, but sometimes people need to hear hard messages to help them reach the top of their game.