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TECC 105: How to Be a Successful Communicator from Successful Engineers

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How to Be a Successful Communicator from Successful Engineers

In this episode, my co-host Chris Knutson, PE leads one of the panels from our past Engineering Career Summit on project management and communication and how you can be a successful communicator with your engineering project team.

Here are the key points:

How is communications important in project management?

  • Setting the right expectations for the project team is essential: clarity of purpose, the scope, roles and responsibilities.
  • The best way to have reliable projects is to aggregate risks.
  • Get to the actual point.
  • Listening is a key factor in gaining clarity and understanding about your engineering projects.
  • Empower each team member to have ownership of their own task and to work in a collaborative space with each other.

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TECC 026: The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – A Five-Step Process for Overcoming Your Addiction to E-mail

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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 our inboxes, like I did. In this session, I will outline in detail how I overcame my e-mail addiction for those of you who want to do the same and increase your productivity.

“Email is familiar. It’s comfortable. It’s easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.” – Ryan Holmes

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