In this session of The Engineering Career Coach (TECC) Podcast, I am going talk about leadership and how you can improve your leadership skills as an engineer regardless of your current position or experience level.
This episode is the seventh part in the seven part series where I covered the 7 key elements to creating an extraordinary engineering career, based on my recently released updated and expanded edition of my book Engineer Your Own Success.
Listen to this session and learn about the following points related to how you can develop and improve your leadership skills:
1 – Positivity: adopt a positive outlook as a leader because that affects everybody around you
- Surround yourself with positive people as much as possible
- Read positive books and quotes
2 – Opportunity: turn problems into opportunity; great leaders see opportunity amidst problems. Ask yourself these 2 questions:
- Where is the opportunity in this situation?
- How can we learn and grow from this situation?
3 – Understanding your role: understand your role and stick to it to ensure your team is successful
4 – Delegation: you have to identify the most important tasks that you need to work on and delegate the rest
- Start delegating by assigning small tasks to people
5 – Respect: trust and respect the people that you lead and they will respect you
6 – There is no I in team: always take that team approach; there is no one bigger, no one better
How do you lead your team?
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.