How To Turn Your Biggest Challenge in Your Engineering Career into Your Biggest Opportunity – Ep 033
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to help a younger engineer in Florida take her biggest challenge as a military spouse and leverage it into something positive. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – are all opportunities for me to rise.” – Kobe Bryant The Take Action Today segment of […]
A Challenge to Work Four Hours a Day in Your Engineering Career – Ep 032
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to challenge you to work only four hours per day for one week. “Success is actually a short race, a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.” “It is not that we have too little […]
Seven Keys to Developing Work-Life Balance in Your Engineering Career – Ep 031
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I discuss work-life balance, a topic that I am very passionate about. My guest is Julie Cohen, author of Your Work, Your Life …Your Way and an expert on this topic. “Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way […]
How to Build Willpower and Create Positive Habits that Move You Closer to Your Engineering Goals with Leo Gura – Ep 030
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to provide you with specific steps for building your willpower and creating positive habits with my guest Leo Gura, who is a personal development expert and has over 200 videos on YouTube. “When you control your thoughts, you control your mind. When you […]
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 […]
Nine Steps to Writing Proper and Meaningful E-mails for Engineers – Ep 028
In this episode of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, my guest, Pat Sweet, is going to give out some amazing strategies with nine specific points on writing proper and meaningful e-mails. The Take Action Today segment of the show will show you how to get your message across in a way that’s easy for people […]
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 […]
A Five-Step Process for Overcoming Your Addiction to E-mail – Ep 026
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I provide the five-step process that I have utilized to overcome my addiction to e-mail in hopes that you can do the same. E-mail is a valuable method of communication, but it is also dangerous; it can seriously hamper our productivity, especially if we live in […]
What to Do if You Are Not Getting the Engineering-Design Experience You Need – Ep 025
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I give a young engineer some guidance on concerns she has, including lack of engineering-design experience and which master’s degree is best to pursue. While much of my content on this site focuses on the development of core or nontechnical skills, getting the proper technical and engineering-design […]
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 […]