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The Power of Building Accountable Teams for Excellent Performance

April 18, 2022 By EMI

This is a guest post by Jeff Perry, MBA

When executives are asked what leadership skills they wish their leaders were better at, one of the most common responses is the ability to hold their people accountable. This indicates a red flag, as it is an indicator that the organization as a whole is not very accountable. Rather than a focus on holding others accountable, we should instead be making the shift toward developing people who are accountable.

accountable teams

Wait, What Do You Mean?

Let me explain myself by asking a few simple questions for you to ponder:

  • How would you describe someone who is accountable?
  • How do we hold someone else accountable?
  • How do we hold ourselves accountable?

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Filed Under: Blog, Leadership/Management Tagged With: Building Accountable Teams, collective success, developing people who are accountable, Excellent Performance, hold ourselves accountable, holding others accountable, Jeff Perry, leadership skills, Make assignments, Personal Accountability, Publicize team goals, team achievement, understand the goals of others, what accountability looks like

Leadership Skills You Can Develop Now

December 7, 2020 By EMI

This is a guest blog by Pamela A. Scott

Leadership Skills

Are you doing what it takes to earn a leadership role at your firm?

A few years ago, I was working with a team of senior project managers (PM). The training program was “From PMs to Business Leaders.” In our first session, I asked them to list the job requirements for a PM and for a business leader. The list for the PMs was quite long. The list for a business leader had just a couple bullets on it.

One PM looked at the lists and said, “If our executive team members were killed in an accident, we wouldn’t even know how to turn off the lights.” Bingo!

How equipped are you to take on a leadership role at your firm? Below are three critical capabilities necessary to become a leader.

1) Network With Intention

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Filed Under: Blog, Leadership/Management Tagged With: become a leader, Build self-confidence, building relationships, business leader, critical capabilities, Critical thinking skills, earn a leadership role, executive team, From PMs to Business Leaders, introduce yourself to strangers, leadership skills, networking, Pamela A. Scott, reach leadership status, Show Initiative, take on a leadership role

4 Opportunities to Grow Your Leadership Skills

July 31, 2018 By EMI

4 Opportunities to Grow Your Leadership Skills is a blog post by guest author
Patrick Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, ASEP
Leadership Skills

Leadership skills are crucial for engineers looking to take on more responsibility, and move into management. If you’ve ever read this blog, or anything I’ve written on leadership in the past, you’ll already know that.

What you might not know is how to develop your leadership skills. This is a constant struggle for engineers looking to break into leadership roles – how can you grow to become a leader if nobody gives you the chance to develop those skills in the first place? How you can get leadership experience if all leadership roles require previous leadership experience?

Today, I’m going to share five ways that you can grow your leadership skills, regardless of whether you already have a formal leadership role at work or not. Pursuing just one of these ideas over the next year can do amazing things for you personally  and your ability to lead others.

[Read more…] about 4 Opportunities to Grow Your Leadership Skills

Filed Under: Blog, Leadership/Management Tagged With: certifications, engineers, Finding opportunities, Get an education, leadership experience, leadership roles, leadership skills, Leading within your community, Leading within your organization, management, opportunities, responsibility

7 Tips to Engineer Your Job Promotion

May 22, 2018 By EMI

7 Tips to Engineer Your Job Promotion is a blog post by guest author Sreeram Sreenivasan

Job PromotionDid you know that 23% of employees feel they’re overlooked for a promotion? There was a time when hard work and professional conduct were good enough to get engineers promoted. Today, they’ve become the norm. Keeping your head down and slogging hard won’t cut it any more. Engineers need to apply specific tactics to increase their chances of getting a job promotion.

1. Analyze your current situation

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Filed Under: Blog, Job Search/Salary/Relocation Tagged With: Analyze your current situation, Become indispensable, Build your network, engineers, job promotion, leadership skills, Quantify your success, Seek feedback, Shine in your current role, Sreeram Sreenivasan

How to Become an Effective Engineering Leader – Engineering Career TV Ep. 24

August 21, 2017 By EMI




Q: How can I become an Effective Engineering Leader?

Welcome to Episode #24 of Engineering Career TV. In this episode, I discuss the book titled Real Power: Business Lessons From the Tao Te Ching and give you some advice on how you can become an effective engineering leader. 

I will spend most of the Engineering Career TV episodes answering questions that have been submitted from engineers around the world on how to rapidly advance their careers and live the lives they want to live.

You can submit questions for the show by clicking here.

Let’s jump into today’s episode, a book review of the book entitled Real Power: Business Lessons From the Tao Te Ching, which is the fourth in a series of book reviews where I am discussing books that can help to provide more stress-free productivity:
[Read more…] about How to Become an Effective Engineering Leader – Engineering Career TV Ep. 24

Filed Under: Engineering Career TV Tagged With: business, Business Lessons From the Tao Te Ching, career, career advice, control, how to become a leader, how to become an effective leader, how to identify a leader, job, Leadership, leadership advice, leadership skills, management, qualities of a good leader, qualities of a manager, real power, understanding, what is leadership, what makes a leader

TECC 111: Engineering Your Leadership to Generate Flow

April 12, 2016 By EMI

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In this episode, Chris Knutson, PE interviews Croft Edwards, author on GeneralLeadership.com and an extremely accomplished leader and leadership coach on how to generate flow through leadership.

Engineering Success quote:

flow

flow

Here are the key points from the episode: [Read more…] about TECC 111: Engineering Your Leadership to Generate Flow

Filed Under: Leadership/Management, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: communication, Croft Edwards, engineering leadership, Engineering Manager, FLOW, leadership skills

TECC 101: How to Use Leadership in Your Engineering Firm to Attain High Performance

February 16, 2016 By EMI

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In this episode, Chris Knutson, PE interviews leadership expert Steve Armstrong on leadership and how to develop your leadership skills in your engineering firm.

Engineering Success quotes:

engineering firm

engineering firm

Here are the key points around building a strong leadership culture in your engineering firm: [Read more…] about TECC 101: How to Use Leadership in Your Engineering Firm to Attain High Performance

Filed Under: Leadership/Management, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: delegation, engage people, engineering firm, Leadership, leadership skills, servant leadership, Steve Armstrong

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