Engineering Career Success Summit 2015 Breakdown of Lessons Learned

Anthony Fasano posted 2015-05-21

The following is a summary of Episode 60 of my podcast, The Engineering Career Coach (TECC) Podcast. I will summarize the main points in this post; however, you can also listen to the show through the website or by subscribing on iTunes. I offer a career-changing tip at the end of each podcast session.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach (TECC) Podcast, my co-host Chris Knutson and I are break down the lessons we have learned from our recent event, the Engineering Career Success Summit (ECSS). We also interviewed Skye Coleman to give you an attendee’s perspective and his key take-aways from the event.

Listen to this session and learn some of the lessons we learned from our annual Engineering Career Success Summit event including:

  • Book recommendations from our speakers and panelists 
  • Communication is king; e-mail is a monologue and two monologues don’t make a dialogue
  • Be a Seller-Doer.
  • Integrity is key.
  • Take care of your clients.
  • Be confident and be yourself.
  • It’s about the client NOT you.
  • Four-step work cycle: at the end of the day, you find it, you do it, you bill it, you collect it
  • Constantly improve yourself.
  • Ask what worked and what if?
  • Ask what things should we stop doing, start doing and continue doing?
  • Ask how are we doing right now and what can we do to make our performance a 10?
  • Engineers are horrible at multi-tasking.
  • Remove all distractions like turning off your Outlook pop-ups.
  • Focus on seeing what you actually look like when you are doing it.
  • Be focused and get feedback.
  • As a leader, clarity is important as greatness can often be described in one sentence.
  • Successful people leverage their environment. Example: a round table is much better than a square table for interaction (no one takes sides).
  • Understand who your audience is.  This will allow you to communicate a powerful message.
  • Humans typically want to associate with people that they like.
  • Ownership does not equal leadership.
  • Networking with motivated people will drive you to be better and continually improve yourself.

What is one lesson from this episode that you think you can implement in your career and life immediately?

Anthony Fasano, PE, author of Engineer Your Own Success, found success as an engineer at a very early age and now writes and podcasts to help other engineers do the same. Visit Anthony’s website at EngineeringCareerCoach.com to access all of the free engineering career resources he has created to help engineers succeed.