Building Your Engineering Career Flywheel with the Two Engineering Executives – Ep 086
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I interview two engineering executives from Big Red Dog engineering – Will Schnier, PE and Russell Yeager, PE – and we talk about building your engineering career, the concept of a flywheel, and how these guys have used this concept to build a leading engineering company. […]
How to Work With Baby Boomers and Leverage the Power of Long-Range Engineering Career Planning – Ep 085
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, Chris Knutson interviews John Tarnoff, a coach that works with the baby boomers generation professionals in career transitions and career resiliency. Both skills that effective engineers wield and both skills that each of us must build to create a fulfilling engineering career. “A chasm cannot be […]
Leading An Engineering Career on the Razor’s Edge – Ep 084
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, Chris Knutson interviews Paul Rulkens and talk about the razor’s edge, some strategies on continuous improvement, and the power of knowledge that comes from reading books. Paul explains why any of us would want to be pre-eminent (hint: it accelerates your engineering career or business). And […]
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 […]
Designing Your Leadership Style for An Effective Engineering Career – The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – Ep 082
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, Chris Knutson interviews retired major general Paul McGillicuddy on leadership and how to design your leadership style. They dig deep into leadership traits, where to find leadership training, how to deal with a difficult boss, and many more straight from Paul who has an amazing role […]
Questions You Must Ask if You Want to Become a Partner in Engineering Firm – The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – Ep 081
Image by pch.vector on Freepik In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I interview Jonathan Voelkel who details questions you must ask yourself if you want to become a partner in engineering firm. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley Jonathan Voelkel joined Rusk O’Brien Gido (ROG) […]
How To Work a Room And In Your Engineering Project Team – The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – Ep 080
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, Chris Knutson interviews Susan RoAne who is a world-class teacher, speaker and author on the topic of relationship development and networking. Her books How to Work A Room and Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World are great in providing […]
TECC Community Questions Answered – Part 3 – The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – Ep 079
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, Chris Knutson and I are going to answer more questions from our listeners asking for career advice. “If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It’s very important that you find something that […]
Leadership is Half the Story: How Followership is Critical to A Successful Engineering Career – Ep 078
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, Chris Knutson, PE interviews Marc Hurwitz on the topic of followership, what it is, the 5 key skills of followership, and why it’s so important to be as a strong a follower as a leader to build and sustain a successful engineering career. “It’s not your […]
A Conversation with an Engineer on How to Press His Company on Advancement – Ep 077
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I will provide coaching to an engineer who is not happy with the rate that he is advancing in his company and we talk about how to press his company on advancement. “I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, but the wheel that […]