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 […]
A Five Step Year in Review: Are You Building a Successful Engineer Career?
Another year has gone by in your engineering career and you are about to embark on yet another one. As each year goes by in your career: how exactly are you measuring whether or not you are building a successful engineering career? In this post, I would like to share with you some ways that […]
The 7 Key Result Areas for Engineering Career Success
You have the skills and ability right now to be ten times more successful in your engineering career. To make this change requires a strategy to focus your efforts and a commitment to incremental improvement. The strategy will be built on seven domains that you have complete control over. Complete control to either […]
Be Grateful When You Want To, Not When Someone Tells You To
“Be grateful.” It’s what every trending blog-post, business book, and bystander are telling us we need to do to get where we want to go. Want to make more money? Be grateful. Improve a relationship? Be grateful. Get noticed at work? Be grateful. What’s that you’re thinking? You don’t always feel grateful. Of course, […]
3 Reasons to Design Gratitude Into Your Engineering Career
Do you operate with a zero-sum mindset in your engineering career? Do you believe that there is only so much pie to go around and if someone else gets it, you won’t get yours? Or, do you operate with a both/and mindset? That is, do you believe that there is adequate opportunity to support both […]