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TECC 243: Career Planning and Leadership Progression for Engineering Professionals

March 30, 2021 By EMI

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Career Planning and Leadership Progression for Engineering Professionals

In this episode, I talk to Mark A. Herschberg, M.Eng, a seasoned executive and cybersecurity expert and author of the book called: “The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You” about the importance of career planning, networking, communication, leadership, and management as an engineer.

Engineering Quotes:

career planning

career planning

Here Are Some of the Key Points Discussed About Career Planning and Leadership Progression for Engineering Professionals:

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Filed Under: Leadership/Management, Networking/Client Relations, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: being a good communicator, career planning, communication, creating your career plan, cybersecurity expert, diversity of ideas, influential leadership, Leadership, Leadership Progression, management, Mark A. Herschberg, networking, Positional leadership, practice leadership, promote independent thoughts, qualities of a great leader, skills and attributes, The Career Toolkit

Engaging the Engagers: Succeeding in the New Era with Better Leadership and Management

November 9, 2020 By EMI

This is a guest blog by Peter C. Atherton, P.E.

Better Leadership

“Literally nothing a CEO or CHRO does will authentically, structurally, and sustainably change the value of your organization more.”

This is a statement from the recently released book written by Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of Gallup, and Jim Harter, PhD, Chief Workplace Scientist for Gallup, based on their research and more than 30 years of data, to help workplaces thrive and produce something the whole world wants through better leadership and management.

What they are referencing is “improving your ratio of great to lousy managers”.  The key to this, however, rests solely with leaders.

It’s Both

To succeed today in any position of authority we need to both lead and manage.

Leadership is a role to establish a clear vision for a mission that inspires others to follow and then enable achievement through times of both conflict and harmony.

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Filed Under: Blog, Leadership/Management Tagged With: ActionsProve, clear vision for a mission, Engage Top Talent, Engaging the Engagers, improving your ratio, Leadership, management, New Era, organizational growth, organize and coordinate, Peter C. Atherton, profits, reinforce production, Reversing Burnout, thriving culture

TSEC 33: Leading With Outcomes: Keys to Advancing Your Engineering Career

September 3, 2020 By EMI

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In this episode of The Structural Engineering Channel Podcast, we talk to Rens Hayes, Principal at H+O Structural Engineering, about strategic planning, organizational structure, leadership, management, and advancing your engineering career. Regardless of your current position and aspirations in your engineering career, if advancement is something you’d like to continue to pursue, this episode is full of big-picture insights that will help you see where opportunity for growth lies.

Engineering Quotes:

Advancing Your Engineering Career

Advancing Your Engineering Career

Here Are Some of the Questions We Ask Rens in This Episode:

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Filed Under: TSEC-The Structural Engineering Channel Tagged With: big-picture insight, Engineering Career, H+O Structural Engineering, Keys to Advancing, Leadership, Leading With Outcomes, management, mission, opportunity for growth, organizational balance, organizational structure, Rens Hayes, strategic planning, values, vision

People Disappointment Management 101

August 10, 2020 By EMI

This is a guest blog by Kristi Hoke Mirambell, P.E

disappointment

As I sit to write a blog about People Disappointment Management 101, I hear the song “God Is Great, Beer Is Good, and People Are Crazy” playing on the radio. At first, the song was nothing more than a typical country song about life with a country play on word humor. I heard this song many times, but it wasn’t until this time in my life, which is filled with an abundance of fear and unknowns, that I heard this song differently. I believe this song represents the best way to explain People Disappointment Management 101.

What makes us disappointed in another person?

I believe that our disappointments lie within our expectations of an event or person. When our expectations are not met, we create a narrative that validates that we are “right” and the event/person is “wrong.”

I am an engineer who lives for data points. This model works great for me because I continuously find data to prove my disappointment as accurate. From an ego standpoint, this works very well because all the narratives that I’ve lived by or believed made me “right.” However, what I learned through my 20-plus years of living according to a spreadsheet is that many past relationships ended in my life with the other person walking away defeated. Hey, but I won — or did I?

There was a time in my life that I knew I needed to change the way that I lived — that it no longer served me and I was ready for a “Cool Change” (another great song!). I started on this journey into uncharted territory and found that there was a whole new way of living, and it could help me to create the life I was desperately searching for.

For me, it started with being able to manage my disappointments in people. There are three key standards specific to personal relationships that we choose to live our lives in, and they tie right back to “God Is Great, Beer Is Good, and People Are Crazy.”

disappointment

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Filed Under: Blog, Enlightenment Tagged With: Beer Is Good, Disappointment, Disappointment Management, disappointments, expectations, experience of life, fear and unknown, God Is Great, Kristi Hoke Mirambell, management, P.E, People, People Are Crazy, personal relationships

TCEP 134: A Young Female Civil Engineering CEO Shares Her Story

January 6, 2020 By EMI

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Civil Engineering CEO

In this episode, I talk with Áine O’Dwyer, PE, Principal and CEO at Enovate Engineering, about various civil engineering career topics including the challenges she faced when working in the construction industry, starting a new firm, and how she achieved success despite these challenges at such a young age to become a civil engineering CEO.

Engineering Quotes:

Here Are Some of the Questions We Ask Áine:

  • What made you interested in civil engineering?
  • What skillsets helped you to get into management at such a young age?
  • How did you rise through the ranks and start your own company?
  • What is it that drives you daily?
  • How did you develop your confidence as a civil engineering CEO?
  • How can civil engineering professionals find opportunities in their careers?

Here Are Some of the Key Points Discussed in This Episode:

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Filed Under: Career Goals and Challenges, TCEP-The Civil Engineering Podcast Tagged With: Aine O’Dwyer, Civil Engineering, civil engineering ceo, Confidence, construction industry, Engineering Manager, Female Civil Engineer, honest feedback, internship, knowledge and understanding, management, mentors and managers, opportunities in your career, starting a new firm

TCEP 130: Dealing with Major Career Decisions and Transitions as a Civil Engineer

November 6, 2019 By EMI

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Transitions as a Civil Engineer

In episode 130 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, our fifth episode in our Women in Civil Engineering series, we’re taking you with us  to Hawaii to visit Coffman Engineers. There we talk to Jami Hirota PE, LEED AP, a civil engineer and experienced project manager that manages a quickly growing civil engineering department. Jamie will discuss the impact that major career decisions and transitions as a civil engineer can have on your career and tell us about a very difficult career decision she had to make around leaving the family engineering business and how it has impacted her civil engineering career and her personal life.

Here Are Some of the Questions I Ask Jami:

  • What are some of the benefits of working for a small civil engineering firm?
  • How is civil engineering different in Hawaii?
  • Is there a lot of work for engineers in the public sector in Hawaii?
  • How has being a female engineer in the industry impacted you in your civil engineering career?
  • How did you manage transitions as a civil engineer in your career?
  • What is your philosophy on management?

Engineering Quotes:

Transitions as a Civil Engineer

Here Are Some Key Points Discussed in This Episode About Career Decisions and Transitions as a Civil Engineer:

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Filed Under: Career Goals and Challenges, Job Search/Salary/Relocation, TCEP-The Civil Engineering Podcast Tagged With: career decision, cultural diversity, different size firms, engineering degree, female engineer, Hawaii, Major Career Decisions, management, mid-sized civil engineering firm, relocating to Hawaii, small civil engineering firm, surveys, Transitions as a Civil Engineer, treatment plans

TCEP 113: How I Went from Tinker Bell into Disaster Recovery

March 13, 2019 By EMI

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Tinker Bell

In episode 113 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, I talk with Gina Rock who is the Program Delivery Manager at Jacobs. We talk about her career journey from the circus to Disney’s longest flying Tinker Bell (yes she was Tinker Bell) and then into the world of engineering.  What I love about this episode is it really emphasizes how it’s never too late to make changes in your career path.

Engineering Quotes:

Here Are Some of the Questions I Ask Gina About Her Journey as Disney’s Longest Flying Tinker Bell:

  • How did you end up being Disney’s longest flying Tinker Bell?
  • What did it feel like for you when you found out you got the job as Tinker Bell in Disneyland?
  • Tell us about your performance as Tinker Bell?
  • What made you decide to go back to the engineering field?
  • How did you feel when you started with your first individual assistance job?
  • What makes a manager or leader effective in your experience?

Here are some key points discussed in this episode:

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Filed Under: Career Goals and Challenges, TCEP-The Civil Engineering Podcast Tagged With: best managers, career, Circus, civil engineer, Engineering, Gina Rock, Hurricane Katrina, Individual Assistance, Longest Flying Tinker Bell, management, right leader, Tinker Bell

How Good Writing Skills Can Benefit Your Engineering Career

January 29, 2019 By EMI

This is a guest blog by Peter Hill 

Good Writing SkillsThe second half of the 20th century saw a significant rise of demand for qualified engineers, mostly because after the World War II there was a lot to be rebuilt but also science and technology started to develop rapidly. Large companies, often owned by people that weren’t engineers, but rich investors, needed specialists that could communicate in a way that was easy to understand. The late 60’s introduced technical writing which became one of the essential soft skills for every aspiring engineer. The reasons why writing is important nowadays vary and hold value to both engineers and their companies. In this article, we will discuss some of the major benefits that good writing skills hold for engineers.

The Better Prospect of Landing a Job

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Filed Under: Blog, Personal Development and Professionalism Tagged With: achievements and opinions, communication, emails, engineer, Engineering Career, Good Writing Skills, Hiring experts, management, Peter Hill, skills

TCEP 108: The Value IT Professionals Bring to the Engineering World

January 7, 2019 By EMI

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IT Professionals

In episode 108 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, I will be speaking with Lisa Roger, PMP who is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Dewberry. We talk about her work in the Information Technology (IT) Department and also discuss the importance of IT Professionals in the engineering world.

Engineering Quotes:

IT Professionals

IT Professionals

Here are some of the questions I ask Lisa Roger, CIO:

  • What does being a CIO mean in terms of your responsibilities at Dewberry?
  • Talk to us about your philosophy in terms of IT?
  • Do you encourage interaction between IT professionals and engineering professionals?
  • How do you decide which software will be implemented at your company?
  • How much do you rely on out of the box software vs. software you have customized in-house?
  • Many small firms don’t have the advantage of an in-house IT department. At what point in an engineering firm’s growth do you think an IT department is needed and what are some of the pitfalls if they don’t have one?
  • How do you think the future of artificial intelligence will influence IT jobs and the engineering world?

Here are some key points discussed in this episode about IT Professionals:

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Filed Under: Career Goals and Challenges, TCEP-The Civil Engineering Podcast Tagged With: Add Value, CIO, Engineering, engineering professionals, execute business, Information Technology, infrastructure, IT department, IT professionals, management, security, sell business, software

TECC 192: Why Engineers Quit Managers Not Companies

December 11, 2018 By EMI

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Why Engineers Quit Managers Not Companies

In this episode, I talk with Rich Archbold, senior engineering director at Intercom. We talk about an article he wrote called: “Engineers quit managers, not companies. Don’t let that manager be you.”

Engineering Quotes:

Quit Managers

Quit Managers
Here are some of the key points discussed about why engineers quit managers and not companies:

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Filed Under: Leadership/Management, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: career, engineers, leave engineers, management, manager of managers, managers, professionalism, quit engineers, quit managers

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