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I Wish I Was a Better…..
Often times in our careers we complain or we wish we were better at something because we feel our inadequacy is holding us back. For example, you might say I wish I was a better public speaker or I...
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Will Technology Ruin Your Career?
William Merunka Featured Guest Blogger: William Merunka Follow me on my journey to become a great engineer. Let’s connect on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/williammerunka As time passes, new...
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4 Steps to Leadership for Young Professionals
Jason Kent Featured Guest Blogger: Jason Kent, P.E. “I want to be a leader, but I’m so new here.” Many young professionals find it frustrating to feel that they can’t lead or advance because of their...
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Having Intent
Every goal we’ve achieved has started with an intent. Our intention to go to college, to get a masters, to become registered, to take a position with a certain company…the list goes on. For most of...
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Administering Discipline
Let’s face it, this isn’t a fun topic. In fact, it sucks. As with everything in life, the Pareto principle is at play with these challenging management situations, except it’s more like 2% of the...
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Email Discipline and Marines: What Weapons Safety Can Teach Us
For certain email is not a deadly weapon. Or is it? Everyone of us at some point or another (perhaps daily?) complain about the amount of email we get, the email we have to send, the unimportant...
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Compass, Gear, and Pencil: Learn to Write…and Communicate
If you are trying to decide among a number of skills which one you wish to improve, improve your writing. For certain having good skills in speaking, managing a program, or negotiating a budget are...
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Do You Manage Email by Habit or Happenstance?
Email is a tool and like all good tools, you need to learn how to wield it. A week doesn’t pass with out my hearing someone gripe about how much email they have or how great it was when email didn’t...
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How to Explain (Almost) Rocket Science to a Non-technical Person
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of my book Engineer Your Own Success: One of the challenges that you will constantly be faced with in your career as an engineering professional is that of...
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Presenting Do’s and Don’ts: How to Influence with Delivery
To the engineer team, designing and planning a project to support the client, collect fees-for-service, or meet the mission is what it’s all about. It’s the raison d’être of the engineer. However,...
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How to Get the Attention of a Manager Who is too Busy to Talk to You
This following is a video that I recorded in response to a question from one of the fans on our Facebook fanpage. The question was: “Any advice for communicating info to upper management? I have...
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Your Level of Responsiveness Will Impact Your Engineering Career Development
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of my book Engineer Your Own Success: In today’s world with all of the readily available technology, people want answers immediately. The success of your...
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Engineer Your Own Success: Anthony Fasano’s New Book Released Today!
Today Anthony Fasano released his book “Engineer Your Own Success”. I highly recommend this book, especially if you’ve considered for even a moment that there’s more to career success, achieving your...
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Instilling Discipline in Your Electronic Communications
Communicating at the present moment is easy. In fact, it’s so easy that many have forgotten the basics of effective communication between people and the fact that they are in charge of when and how...
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Presenting 101: Setting the Stage for Success
Ever get nervous prior to getting up in front of an audience to deliver a presentation? I’m imagining that if you’re like most people, say 99%, the answer is “yes”. The fact is, most of us are...
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The Numbers Behind Your Communications
Everyday and in every way we communicate. In a professional life, you live and thrive by the quality and quantity of the communications you undertake with family, friends, colleagues, your boss,...
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Framing Decisions
Framing decisions for the boss is an important roll every one of us must fulfill. The boss may actually be, “the boss” – the person who writes your appraisal. Or it may be your clients, or your...
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A Few Things Learned from Bad Presentations
Everyone enters a presentation ready to deliver hard-hitting, relevant facts in a concise manner, right? Wrong. The number of times I’ve sat through a presentation to senior organizational leaders in...
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Develop YOUR Own Winning Team to Boost Your Engineering Career
Engineering Career Team Featured Guest Blogger: Suzanne E. Pylant, EI, A.M. ASCE, Spylant Consulting, LLC Aren’t you just sick and tired of articles entitled: 10 things to make you a better engineering...
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Never Be Boring Again: Improving Your Technical Presentations
Featured Guest Blogger: Susan de la Vergne Life is too short to sit through one more boring technical presentation in your engineering career. Yet there you go, off to another one. It’s a design...
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