The Engineering Career Coach Podcast

If the water gets hot in your career, do you have someone that will throw you a life vest and help you get up again? Disaster can strike at any time in your career and that is why you have to create stability around yourself in your career. The post TECC 207: How to Avoid Becoming a Frog in Boiling Water in Your Engineering Career appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

What makes us successful as an engineer is not solely what’s going to bring us success as a leader or a partner. We need to be really tuned in with who we are and grow in our profession. The post TECC 206: The Truth About Engineering Partnership: The Good, The Bad, and The Potentially Ugly appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

Constant communication on the things that you can improve on is very important in your career journey, and especially within the first 90 days at your firm. The first 90 days when starting a new job is like an extension of your job interview. Your managers will want to make sure that you are a good fit for the company and that they make a good hiring decision. The post TECC 205: Starting a New Job: How to Succeed Faster in the First 90 Days of Employment appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

There are ways to show your company you're ready for engineering management, but it takes extra time, dedication, focus and the ability to stretch yourself. The post TECC 204: How to Show Your Company You Are Ready for Engineering Management appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

Five Years, 260 Weeks, 1820 days, 2,620,800 Minutes. What will you do with it? What could you do with it? Where Will You Be Five Years from Now? The post TECC 203: Where Will You Be Five Years from Now in Your Engineering Career? appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

Look at the things that are important to you and determine what the 80/20 drivers are in your career and life. Do you have deadlines around them? If it is important to you, you should have a clear and defined deadline. The post TECC 202: How to Use Deadlines as Productivity Tools in Your Engineering Career and Life appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

An introvert is not simply a shy person or somebody that is not outgoing. It is someone who needs time to recharge their batteries alone after they spent a lot of time with people. The post TECC 201: Overcoming Limiting Beliefs and Tackling the Job Search for Rising Introverts appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

Ram Iyer, an engineer with a business degree, tallks about business thinking skills and the techie mindset and how you can develop these skills. The post TECC 200: How to Develop Business Thinking Skills for Engineers and Techies appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I talk with Lisa Earle McLeod, a global expert on purpose-driven work. She is the author of five books, including the bestseller: Selling with Noble Purpose and we will be talking about how you can lead with a noble purpose, and how by doing this, you can improve your engineering career and […] The post TECC 199: How Engineering Professionals Can Lead with Noble Purpose appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I am speaking with Chris Marshall, P.E.,  Regional Geotechnical Engineer at Professional Services Inc. (PSI) in Houston, Texas.  We talk about the strategies he uses when dealing with everyday distractions in his engineering career and we discuss the difference between a maker’s and manager’s schedule, and how you might utilize these different […] The post TECC 198: Maker’s Versus Manager’s Schedule for Engineers appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I talk with consultant and keynote speaker Molly McPherson, M.S., APR.  We outline strategies to communicate more confidently and clearly, and we also discuss how you can become more effective on social media, specifically LinkedIn. These two topics can have a massively positive impact on your professional development efforts. Engineering Quotes: Here […] The post TECC 197: How to Confidently Communicate In-Person and Online for Engineers with Molly McPherson appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I will be speaking to Jakob Heuser, an engineering leader, writer, speaker and entrepreneur about the intersection between people’s careers and the company objective. For this episode we will have a guest co-host named Carolette Wright. Carolette is a mechanical engineer and she has been an avid listener of our show who has […] The post TECC 196: Where Passion Meets Productivity: The Intersection Between People’s Careers and the Company Objective appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I am going to discuss the four books that I am currently reading and how these books, or really how my reading process may help you as an engineer. I decided to create this episode because engineers are constantly asking me what I am reading or what books they should be reading to advance […] The post TECC 195: The Four Books That I Am Reading Now and How They Can Help You as an Engineer appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I outline two different approaches to professional development. I explain the advantages and disadvantages of each of these approaches, and how you can use them to increase your overall success in your engineering career and life. Engineering Quotes: Here are the 2 different approaches to professional […] The post TECC 194: Do You Prefer Sprinting or Jogging with Your Professional Development Efforts? appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In 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 […] The post TECC 193: What Prison Has Taught This Young Engineer and How it Can Help You appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I talk with Rich Archbold, senior engineering director at Intercom. We talk about an article he wrote called: “People leave managers, not companies. Don’t let that manager be you.” Engineering Quotes: Here are some of the key points discussed about why engineers quit managers and not companies: One of the most important […] The post TECC 192: Why Engineers Quit Managers Not Companies appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I talk with award-winning journalist and host of the Peggy Smedley show, Peggy Smedley about cyber-security and hacking and how it affects us as engineers in our work as well as in our personal lives. Engineering Quotes: Here are some of the key points discussed about hacking and how it puts our engineering […] The post TECC 191: Hacking and How It Puts Our Engineering Systems at Risk appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, you will be listening in on a conversation between myself and Christopher Geiger, PE who is an Engineering Director with Lockheed Martin on a pretty interesting topic that we haven’t talked about much on the podcast which is sustaining long term projects with short term technology. He will also tell us about […] The post TECC 190: Sustaining Long Term Projects with Short Term Technology with Christopher Geiger appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I talk with Paul Axtell about something all engineers are involved in, which is meetings.  Not just the “M-word”, these are the individual and team interactions that make projects happen, and Paul provides us with some great take-aways you can use to take your meetings from ordinary to extraordinary. Engineering Quotes: Here are some of […] The post TECC 189: Taking Your Meetings from Ordinary to Extraordinary appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I speak with Professor Jim Tinjum, who is the Associate Chair of the Department of Engineering Professional Development at University of Wisconsin-Madison. We talk about his roughly 1300-mile, 14-day bike trip across the Upper Midwest and what made him decide to take this bike ride for sustainability. Engineering Quotes: Here are the top 10 […] The post TECC 188: Taking Action – A Bike Ride for Sustainability appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.