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Getting Ahead of the Next Curve as a Leader and Team

June 23, 2020 By EMI

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

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What We Need to Know About Human Disaster Response and Trauma 

There is no doubt that we have been going through a season of much higher fear, anxiety, and trauma with the COVID-19 crisis and the very visual revealing of racial injustice and inequities previously ignored.  

Our stressors are also multifaceted and connected with different concerns.  

On one hand, our concerns are related to health, economics, isolation, and an uncertain and non-uniform re-opening. On the other hand, our concerns are related to seeing large gaps in long-standing social constructs associated with equality, justice, and inclusion.  

Even as we begin to work through the “peaks,” medically and in terms of concerns over our organization’s near-term financial health, and as we begin to better listen, understand, and take new actions as citizens and society, the fact is that we will not — and must not — just return to “normal.”  

Between then and now, however, there are things we need to know and steps we need to take to help ease concerns and come out of these periods of crisis stronger, better, and more resilient.  

What We Need to Know 

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Filed Under: Blog, COVID19 Tagged With: anxiety, COVID-19 crisis, COVID-19 pandemic, disaster, fear, focus and production, Human Disaster, Leaders, leadership teams, Mindset, natural human response, Peter Atherton, stressful event, taking the lead, Trauma, vaccine

TECC 228: How to Stay Safe and Keep Healthy During the Coronavirus Pandemic

April 28, 2020 By EMI

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stay safe and keep healthy

In this episode, I talk about how you can stay safe and keep healthy during the coronavirus pandemic by changing the way you think and doing things differently daily. During this pandemic we are indeed dealing with tough times, but if you can adapt a positive mindset, you might just find that even within these uncertain times, there are always opportunities out there.  

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Here Are Some of the Key Points Discussed About How You Can Stay Safe and Keep Healthy During the Coronavirus Pandemic:

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Filed Under: Organization/Productivity/Time Management, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: be happy in life, Coronavirus Pandemic, cultivate your own mindset, immune system functioning properly, Keep Healthy Physically, meditating, mental health, mentally focused, mindfulness, Mindset, opportunities in situations, Physical exercise, proactive, productive, Stay Safe Mentally, Working from home

TSEC 06: The Emotional Side of Structural Engineering

August 8, 2019 By EMI

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Emotional Side of Structural EngineeringIn episode 06 of The Structural Engineering Channel podcast, we talk to Zohaib Alvi, P.E. who is a civil, structural, and forensic engineer and principal of za/engineering. We talk about sustainability in structural engineering and more specifically about the emotional side of structural engineering and how important it is to embrace and understand it as an engineer.

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Emotional Side of Structural Engineering

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

  • Where did your interest in sustainability come from?
  • In terms of policies, guidelines and regulations – has it been reflected in codes and guidelines in the recent history?
  • Can you give us an example of how resiliency needs to start with us?
  • How does smart technology play into all these trending issues?

Here Are Some of the Key Points Discussed About the Emotional Side of Structural Engineering

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Filed Under: TSEC-The Structural Engineering Channel Tagged With: communicate, data-driven, decision-making processes, emotional side, Emotional Side of Structural Engineering, Listen, Mindset, professional development, re-use structures, resiliency, smart technology, soft skills, Structural engineering, sustainability, sustainability interest, technical capabilities, The Structural Engineering Channel, Zohaib A. Alvi

TECC 200: How to Develop Business Thinking Skills for Engineers and Techies

April 16, 2019 By EMI

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In this episode, I talk with Ram V. Iyer, an engineer with a business degree, an MIT grad, who realized that his engineering and business education were inadequate to succeed in business or to attain executive positions in business. It took him a stint as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley and four startups to figure out that business thinking is the one missing ingredient. He will discuss what business thinking is and how you can develop these business thinking skills, and he will also talk about the techie mindset and how it can help and hurt us.

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Here Are Some of the Key Points Discussed About Business Thinking Skills for Engineers and Techies:

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Filed Under: Business/Entrepreneurship, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: achieve success, advance in your career, business thinking, Business Thinking Skills, career, engineers, make more money, Mindset, Ram Iyer, set of believes, Techies, value, win-win

TECC 193: What Prison Has Taught This Young Engineer and How it Can Help You

January 8, 2019 By EMI

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prisonIn this episode, I talk with Jim (a false name used to keep our guest anonymous), a young engineer who had to spend some time in prison soon after he graduated college. We talk about everything he went through while in prison as well as the things he learned and how his experiences have contributed to his success in his career.

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Here are some of the key points discussed about Jim’s time spent in prison:

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Filed Under: Career Goals and Challenges, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: considerate, determination, different people, engineer, failure, General Education Development, giving up, Mindset, networking, PE Exam, preparing, Prison, Professional Engineer, recent graduate, situations, skills, surroundings

TECC 165: Opportunities for Engineers and Technical Professionals in the Gig Economy

December 26, 2017 By EMI

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Opportunities for Engineers and Technical Professionals in the Gig Economy

Opportunities for EngineersIn this episode, I talk with Diane Mulcahy, author of The Gig Economy about opportunities for engineers and technical professionals in the current and future economy. The Gig Economy is a shift in the economy from people working 9 to 5 jobs to people performing freelancing or independent work. This is something that can be very applicable to the engineering world and already is very prevalent.

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Opportunities for Engineers

Opportunities for Engineers

Here are the key points discussed on opportunities for engineering and technical professionals in the ‘Gig Economy:’

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Filed Under: Career Goals and Challenges, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: Diane Mulcahy, Engineering, exit strategy, Gig Economy, graduating, Mindset, Opportunities for Engineers, opportunities for engineers and technical professionals, prepare for the Gig Economy, side gig, skills, Technical Professionals, transitioning from a full-time job

TECC 155: Strategies for Taking Control of your Mindset

August 8, 2017 By EMI

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Taking Control of your MindsetIn this episode of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I interview Allison Johanson, a licensed clinical social worker about strategies for taking control of your mindset even when your life is in upheaval.

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Taking Control of your Mindset
Taking Control of your Mindset

Here are the key points about taking control of your mindset:

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Filed Under: Organization/Productivity/Time Management, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: acknowledge something, Allison Johanson, let your body communicate to your brain, Mindset, neurotransmitters in our gut, Organize your brain, survival mode, taking a few deep breaths, Taking Control, Taking Control of your Mindset

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