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TECC 177: What Every Engineer Needs to Know When a Crisis Arises

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Crisis ArisesIn this episode, I talk with two very successful women from The Mathews Group, Melissa Mathews and Tia Over. We talk about communication strategies that you can implement when a crisis arises whether it’s a project crisis, client crisis or career crisis.

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Crisis Arises

Here are some of the key points discussed in this episode on what engineers should do when a crisis arises:

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TECC 176: How to Evaluate Which Professional Certificates Can Boost Your Career

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Professional Certificates
In this episode, I talk with Andrew Hoover of UW Continuum College about how to evaluate which professional certificates can boost your career. Andrew has a lot of experience in education, especially learning and gives some very insightful advice which can help you identify the credentials that can boost your engineering career.

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Professional Certificates

Professional Certificates

Here are some of the key points discussed in this episode in regard to professional certificates:

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TECC 175: How to Advance in Your Engineering Career by Growing Your Authority Online

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Growing Your Authority OnlineIn this episode, I talk with Josh Elledge from UpMyInfluence about how to advance in your engineering career by growing your authority online. Josh gives some great tips on how you can build authority and use it to catapult your career forward.

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Growing Your Authority Online

Growing Your Authority Online

Here are some of the key points discussed on growing your authority:

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TECC 174: Strategies Tech Managers Can Use for Building Effective Teams

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Building Effective TeamsIn this episode, I talk with Jen Bunk, architect of the People Stack® – the network of people, places and things that help tech managers build better teams.  Jen  provides strategies that tech managers can use for building effective teams.  Jen also talks about how, in order to be an effective leader, you must commit to leadership and also consider seeking coaching and guidance in your own career.

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Building Effective Teams

Building Effective Teams

Here are some of the key points discussed on building effective teams within an organization:

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TECC 173: Five Levels of Leadership to Help You Become a Powerful Engineering Leader

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Powerful Engineering Leader

In this episode, I talk with Chris Goede from the John Maxwell Company about leadership. Chris explains the 5 Levels of Leadership model and gives some great strategies for becoming a very powerful engineering leader.

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Powerful Engineering Leader

Powerful Engineering Leader

Here are some of the key points discussed on becoming a powerful engineering leader.

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TECC 172: The Benefits of Building Accountability into your Engineering Career

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Building AccountabilityIn this episode, I talk with Josh Haynam, co-founder of Interact, which is a quiz marketing tool used by more than 40,000 companies around the world. We talk about the benefits of building accountability into your engineering career. Josh gives an excellent analogy that he uses in terms of how a coach can help you to advance in your career and life.

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building accountability

Here are some of the key points discussed on building accountability into your Engineering Career:

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TECC 171: How to Improve Communication Skills and Deal with Being Labeled as Overqualified

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Communication

In this episode, I answer some questions from our listeners and subscribers about building communication skills, improving public speaking, and strategies for overcoming being overqualified for a position you want.

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Communication

Communication

Here is the summary of the questions and answers discussed on how to improve communication skills and deal with being labeled as overqualified:

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TECC 170: Big Picture Thinking Versus the Details in your Engineering Career

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Big Picture ThinkingIn this episode, I talk to about the difference between big picture thinking versus a detailed orientated mindset and how to benefit from both in your engineering career. I will detail the benefits of each of these thinking patterns and provide strategies for utilizing both effectively as a technical professional.

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Big Picture Thinking

Big Picture Thinking

Here are some of the key points discussed in this episode:

  • As an engineering professional, you’ll be faced with a wide variety of problems and challenges that will require you to think big and come up with solutions.
  • Engineers who value both big picture and detail-oriented thinking will have a greater opportunity to be successful in their careers.
  • Big picture thinking is when you look at the whole picture and all of the effects that the situation has on everything around it. Most big-picture thinkers do not get bogged down in the details of executing their plans.

Characteristics of Big Picture Thinking

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TECC 169: Strategies Engineers can Take to Immediately Improve their Technical Writing Skills

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Technical Writing SkillsIn this episode, I talk with David Kowal, founder, and president of Kowal Communications about improving one’s technical writing skills. David gives five very specific strategies that you can start using immediately to make you a more effective writer and overall communicator as a technical professional.

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Technical Writing Skills

Technical Writing Skills

Here are the key points discussed on improving your technical writing skills:

  • We have more ways to communicate than ever before, yet technology has made communication impersonal and often ambiguous.
  • We need to focus more on how we communicate, and writing is a big part of that.
  • Most communication today is written. By improving your writing skills, you can improve how you communicate through emails, text messages, social media posts, blog posts, reports, memos, articles, white papers, letters, and presentations.
  • Improving your technical writing skills can help you manage projects more efficiently, generate more dynamic engineering reports, sell more effectively, be more productive, stand out and advance your career.

Here are five strategies you can use to improve your technical writing skills:

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TECC 168: Personal Accountability Starts with the Question Behind the Question

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Personal Accountability Starts with the Question Behind the Question

TECC 168: Personal Accountability Starts with the Question Behind the Question

In this episode, I talk with John G. Miller about Personal Accountability and his bestselling book entitled QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life.  Miller has spent many years speaking to thousands of professionals on how they can become more accountable in their careers and lives.

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Personal Accountability

Personal Accountability

Here are the key points discussed on Personal Accountability:

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