Six Effective Ideas for Employee Engagement
Your organization’s success is undoubtedly the number one aspiration you hold close to your heart. One of the most fundamental requirements for this aspiration to come true is support from your workforce. Your employees are the building blocks of your company. Without them taking the initiative for your organization’s success, your company cannot prosper. But […]
What Makes You YOU?
What do you want to be known for as a professional? Call it personal branding if that phrase means something to you. What do you want your peers, bosses, clients, and professional associates to say about you? How can you stand out from the crowd? What differentiates you from your professional associates? For seven years, […]
Find Your Genius Zone: The Ultimate Personal Brand
Personal branding is getting more and more attention as a piece of building our careers, yet many people ignore it or do not even know what it is. Whether you do it intentionally or not, you are putting off a personal brand — but is it the one that you want to have? Let us […]
3 Steps to Building an Accountability System for Your Engineering Career
Career success and growth comes to us when we accept responsibility for our actions, our wins, and our failures. This is because what we put into our career, from education to continuous learning, training, and certifications, dictates what we get out of task accomplishments, project achievements, and daily performance. We begin to notice that no […]
Who Will Win the Talent Standoff?
Playing to win requires a real investment in organizational redesign, along with the creation of both a vision and a culture that are worth the work. The Standoff The standoff is between younger talents’ needs and older talents’ interest and ability to engage and develop them. It’s the future versus a non-functional or sustainable status […]
Why You Need a Coach
I need a coach. Anyone can trudge through a task or lesson on their own, but if I truly want to get better, I’m in need of a coach. I’ve been an athlete all my life. I started soccer at age 6, baseball at age 8, and I lettered in both football and track in […]
Be a Better You
The people who read this blog are educated, experienced problem-solving professionals, and, I’m assuming, really smart. That is what my 15+ years of working with engineers has taught me. However, for many of those engineers, their confidence wanes when it comes to non-technical knowledge, skills, and abilities. Does the idea of public speaking give you […]
How to Become an Effective Engineering Leader
It can be challenging to transition from being a great engineer into a position of leadership. While your technical knowledge and skills are essential to the execution of your role, being in a position of leadership also necessitates a range of non-technical skills. Here are four key principles to help you become an effective engineering […]
The Power of Perseverance in Developing a Strong Engineering Career
The good news is that your beliefs can strengthen your engineering career success, and as you build stronger core beliefs, you will raise your motivation to learn and grow into a more capable engineer. But the bad news is that changing your life and reaching your career goals will not be an easy task. You […]
3 Virtual Presentation Strategies for Tech Entrepreneurs to Accelerate Stakeholder Buy-In
It is no secret that your ability to communicate well about your tech is often the make-or-break reason for project success. You can have the best idea or product in your market, but if your key stakeholder does not “get it,” then you do not get the critical buy-in you need. Communicating tech is so […]