How to Start an Engineering Company: Owning and Managing an Engineering Business Through a Tough Economy
How to Start an Engineering Company The following is a brief summary of a previous episode of the Engineer Your Own Success Radio Show for engineers entitled How to Start an Engineering Company: Owning and Managing an Engineering Business Through a Tough Economy. Sorry the show is no longer available but notes are below: During the […]
Transitioning from Engineer to Manager : How to Manage Engineering Professionals That Have More Experience Than You
The following is a brief summary of the 1-16-2012 session of the Engineer Your Own Success Radio Show for engineers. During the latest session of my Engineer Your Own Success radio show I had the opportunity to coach a younger engineer (Mary) who was facing the challenge of having to manage or oversee a group […]
From Design Engineer to Manager in 2012 – You Can Do It!
I have received many questions recently through the different social media outlets to the effect of, “How do I go from design engineer to manager in my engineering career?” It’s a great question and one that many engineers ask. In my career travels as a design engineer, and the last few years as an Engineering […]
Controlling the Good Idea Fairy
The good idea fairy is insidious. Sure, he comes on meaning well and espouses great outcomes and high returns. But he shows up in the eleventh hour just when the moment of execution is about to arrive, just when the moment of truth is upon you. Right at the wrong time. And he brings with […]
Starting an Engineering Company Today Can Be Like Driving Into Death Valley
Starting an Engineering Company This is a guest post by Brandon Lee Walter where he discusses the process of starting an engineering company. I decided to try to make the move to a company that sounded like they would be prepared to ride out the upcoming recession in May of 2008. After being let go […]
Managers: Do You Care About Your Employees?
From my experience in the engineering industry, and really the corporate environment in general, I realized that there are two types of managers, I refer to them as managers and LEADERS. There are leaders who care about their co-workers and staff and there are managers who really don’t. Let me explain further. The leaders, who […]
Have You Learned Your Lessons Yet?
Featured Guest Blogger: Robert Mote Every major project carries out an exercise to determine the Lessons Learned for future projects based on the design and execution of the present project. When a project approaches maturation, project management decides to arrange a three-day Lesson Learned seminar across all disciplines. Some three weeks before the seminar, a […]
7 Tips and Quotes to Help Rapidly Advance Your Career
Hello all, I thought this week I would share 7 tips to help rapidly advance your career. These tips are based on my own experience as well as the many books I have read on both personal and career development. If your industry has any type of license or certification that you will need to […]
Leadership Programs: The Best Start For New Grads!
You aren’t sure what you want to do and you don’t really know where you would best fit in; what the best role for you would be? It’s tough. New grads don’t really have a reference point for gauging what jobs they would be good at or would even enjoy doing. On top of that, […]