Inverse Explanation: How to easily walk a layman through your engineering process.
Remove communication from engineering, and what are you left with? Math, mostly. Solve any problem in the world, but at the end of the day, if you can’t get your idea across to others, you never really solved anything. You’re a falling tree in the forest. Nevertheless, most engineering programs tend to overlook this, […]
5 Steps for Creating Constancy of Purpose in your Engineering Career
I have had the pleasure of providing career coaching guidance to hundreds of engineers through my travels with my book Engineer Your Own Success. One very obvious characteristic of those engineers who are happy in their careers is the constancy of purpose. What exactly does constancy of purpose mean? Purpose is the reason you do […]
Four Service Roots to Engineering Leadership
My introduction to leading by serving began with my dad who was a chemical engineer and continued with my first two employers who both were professional civil engineers. Through their direct instruction, mentoring, and coaching I learned and mastered four service roots that I still use to this day. These include the golden rule(+), […]
Three Methods to Stop Stagnation and Accomplish your Engineering Career Goals
Today we have for you Three methods to stop stagnation and accomplish your engineering career goals… A few years back I had a decent life, I was working at a good company with great pay and a lot of responsibility. But I’d been doing the same job, more or less, for several years and it […]
When Accountability Is Not The Best Strategy To Achieve Your Goals
Accountability is all the rage. Goal setting literature is full of articles, features and columns, touting the benefits of finding an accountabilibuddy, one whose job it is to keep you on track, moving forward on your goals, performing what you planned and promised. While I agree that having someone hold me accountable makes perfect […]
5 Ways to Protect Yourself from Other People’s Stress
It’s a fact for every engineer, in either an academic or professional setting, that stress will be present. Because this is the case, you can either view it as a horrific pollutant or accept it as fact and design a way to mitigate or absorb it. I suggest the later approach. Remove any negative or […]
How to Avoid Settling for a Mediocre Engineering Career
In our society it’s not hard to level out. But, many professional engineers get stuck and cannot avoid a mediocre engineering career. We tell you how to get out of it Everyone judges themselves by the examples of people that they’ve seen come before them. If you’ve maintained most of the same friends since high […]
2 Steps for Leading Through Accountability in Your Engineering Career
Today we show you 2 Steps for Leading in your Engineering Career What is accountability and why is in important in becoming a strong engineering leader? Webster dictionary defines accountability as an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions. Let’s investigate both sides of this definition: #1 Take Responsibility […]
8 Traits of Exceptional Engineer Leaders
We all know bad leadership when we see it. Most likely when you read that last sentence, the image of that bad leader popped into your mind. What might be a bit harder to delineate, is the distinction between good leadership and effective leadership. I think this is an important one for engineer’s interested […]
3 Reasons You Must Set Your Vision Before Setting Your Professional Goals
Anthony and I are both proponents of goal setting. We’ll each tell you that if you’re unsure of what action to take next, don’t do anything until you’ve re-focused your goals. Why? Goals serve as a target against which we can take aim and focus our energies. As an engineer, setting goals must become second […]