Improving Your Public Speaking and Getting into the Flow as an Engineer with Author Rashid Kapadia – Ep 083
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I interview Rashid Kapadia who is an author of book entitled Necessary Bridges, and he talks about how engineers can improve their public speaking skills and get into the flow or put themselves in an atmosphere to succeed. “May what I do flow from me like a […]
Communication Skills for Engineers – The Seven Deadly Sins and How to Overcome Them – Ep 063
This episode of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast focuses on communication skills for engineers. I interview Skip Weisman who is an internationally recognized expert in workplace communication skills for engineers and discuss workplace communication, one of the skills that is critical to building your engineering career. “The way we communicate with others and with ourselves […]
Five Tips for Drastically Improving Your Engineering Presentations with Melissa Marshall – Ep 057
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I interview a dynamic speaker who has lectured at Harvard Medical School, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She has performed an extremely TED talk, “Talk Nerdy to Me,” which has been watched by more than one […]
Stop Talking and Start Communicating as an Engineer – Ep 054
In this episode of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I interview Geoffrey Tumlin, CEO of Mouthpiece Consulting and Author of Stop Talking , Start Communicating who balances research, experience, and humor to draw attention to the increasingly troublesome disconnect between our higher-order communication needs and our lower-order communication practices, while pointing a straightforward and compelling […]
Lessons I’ve Learned in the First Fifty Episodes – Ep 050
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, my good friend Christian Knutson, PE, PMP, ENV SP, is going to interview me about the lessons that I’ve learned over the first fifty episodes of the podcast. Chris Knutson has over two decades as a civil engineer field grade officer in the United States Air […]
Nine Tips to Become an Effective Communicator – EYOS Part 4 of 7 – Ep 049
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I will discuss nine strategies to help you become an effective communicator. Clear and effective communication is critical in our engineering careers, especially when we work in teams, with clients and other people who are not technically savvy. This episode is the fourth part in the […]
18 Characteristics that made John Roebling one of the Greatest Engineers of All Time – Part 2 of 2 – Ep 038
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I will finish my interview with historian Clifford Zink who wrote The Roebling Legacy and bring you 10 more characteristics that made John Roebling a great engineer. In this second half of the interview, Clifford discussed Roebling’s projects and proposals and how he exhibited these characteristics […]
IECD 2014 Fall Meetup – What Our Panelists Taught us on Communication and Networking – Ep 029
In this bonus session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to summarize the panel sessions on communication and networking from our recent Institute for Engineering Career Development meetup in San Diego. The Take Action Today segment of the show will give you a strategy to drastically improve your relationships – immediately. “What […]
Six Action Items for Differentiating Yourself as an Engineer by Doing Things that You Are Not Always Supposed to Do – Ep 027
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to give you six action items you can use to differentiate yourself in the industry. Please note, most of these actions are the opposite of what most people will tell you to do. “The job is what you do when you are told […]
10 More Answers for 10 More Questions from 10 More Engineers – Ep 024
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I answer 10 more questions related to career and personal development, submitted by The Engineering Career Coach Podcast listeners. If you missed Session 23, click here to listen to the first 10 questions I answered. “Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe […]