Vector Solutions

JULY 17, 2023

As highlighted in LinkedIn's Workplace Learning Report , focusing on management, communication, leadership, customer service, and sales skills can have a great impact on employee performance and organizational success. These essential topics equip supervisors and managers with crucial skills for effective leadership.

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Vector Solutions

JULY 17, 2023

As highlighted in LinkedIn's Workplace Learning Report , focusing on management, communication, leadership, customer service, and sales skills can have a great impact on employee performance and organizational success. These essential topics equip supervisors and managers with crucial skills for effective leadership.

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Eat Your Career

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Some common examples of transferrable skills include things like communication, leadership, problem-solving, adaptability, and critical thinking. Enhanced Performance: Transferrable skills make up the engine that runs beneath your professional success. They may be learned in one role but applied (in the future) in another.

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Crestcom

APRIL 26, 2024

In this week’s episode of the Leadership Habit Podcast, host Jenn DeWall, and professional coach Susan Ireland delve into the practical aspects of showing up as the leader you want to be. She works with leaders at all levels to enhance leadership and business acumen, encourage self-discovery, and turn challenges into positive results.

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Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It gives employees the chance to be at a leadership level. Mentoring And Tutoring Programs. Mentoring and tutoring programs are a great way to transfer knowledge between generations of workers. Mentoring and tutoring programs are a great way to transfer knowledge between generations of workers. Public Area Cleanup.

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crowdspring

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

behind Silicon Valley and New York), the city of flowers and sunshine boasts one of the largest concentrations of engineering graduates in the country. For better or worse, the city and the Bay Area are now synonymous with entrepreneurship and innovative high-tech thought leadership.

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Vantage Circle

MAY 20, 2024

Tracking Personal and Professional Growth: Engagement tools such as employee engagement surveys, career path planning tools, and mentoring facilitate gaining a holistic understanding of individual aspirations. Leadership Buy-In: Without support from leadership, adoption can falter.

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Crestcom

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Jenn DeWall: Hi, everyone, it’s Jenn DeWall, and on this week’s episode of The Leadership Habit Podcast, I sat down with Jessica Kriegel to talk all about work culture. Jenn DeWall: Jessica Kriegel, I am so excited to have you here as a guest on the Leadership Habit! He became my mentor. Full Transcript Below.

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Vantage Circle

MAY 20, 2024

Tracking Personal and Professional Growth: Engagement tools such as employee engagement surveys, career path planning tools, and mentoring facilitate gaining a holistic understanding of individual aspirations. Leadership Buy-In: Without support from leadership, adoption can falter.

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International Coach Academy

AUGUST 8, 2023

Further, these individuals can often attribute their personal and professional success to having improved various areas in their lives, including how they communicate and interact with others, to how well they execute in a leadership role. Therefore, the quality of leadership within an organization is of critical importance.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 21, 2010

I work with students in the liberal arts and sciences, so although a lot of the companies that come to campus are looking for business and engineering students, I am helping my students compete and realize the skills they have that set them apart. Lesson = Get an engineering degree Oh… and go to a canadian university.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 14, 2010

Engineers For Women: 1. Engineers make the top 5 I think, only because it’s a trendy, online resource. All I wanna be, is an engineer, working for the Police Department! Note: i hope the engineer bit is wrong, because I'm dating one – and have been for about 6 years. Engineers are not in it for power.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

in Chemical Engineering. Your blog is actually one of my main ways of commemorating the event now. Posted by Monica OBrien on September 14, 2010 at 10:51 am | permalink | I loved Pokemon as a kid and am now pursuing a Ph.D

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 28, 2010

I want to be more diligent about finding a mentor to help me grow, outside of my supervisor. We meet many in our lives that can become our coaches or mentors, for longer or shorter periods of time. Finding a good mentor/coach/teacher is tough, but starting a blog exposes you to a huge measure of immediate coaching.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 13, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog You should lead from the middle Posted to: Leadership January 13th, 2010 Del.icio.us But what we have is actually a semantic problem rather than a leadership problem. The old view of leadership is doing it from the top.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Posted by Marc KS on December 16, 2009 at 1:19 pm | permalink | Reply Absolutely right about STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics) companies. Companies like Google have very flexible environments and pretty moderate hours, particularly for engineers, but are about 75% male (and 85 – 90% for engineers).

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 5, 2010

So, FriendFeed was very very small, but Facebook bought them for what the engineering team learned how to do. Every ship needs a captain, a navigator, and an engine room engineer. Long answer: A lot of companies that have investors are built on the idea that the company will build something very valuable to another company.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 6, 2010

It’s the best way to have a meaningful conversation and it’s the best way to rope in a mentor or look like a star performer. It takes a lot of practice and patience to get it "right" and you, your mentor, or anybody else for that matter have a finite amount of time to pursue answers. That rings true to me.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Posted by Shannon on November 24, 2009 at 2:23 pm | permalink | Reply This totally applies to engineers in Silicon Valley and other geo locations as well. Posted by rennie on November 24, 2009 at 3:28 pm | permalink | Reply This totally applies to engineers in Silicon Valley and other geo locations as well. You are so right.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 9, 2010

Teachers like Hilary in a prior comment and engineers (like me) are (or were at some time) able to find jobs and happiness in small towns or large cities across the entire U.S. Elsewhere, I read that if you want to thank a blogger, leave a comment. Not all professions are the same. even The World) as we please.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Posted by Engineer Chic on November 12, 2009 at 11:24 am | permalink | Reply Knitting in airports and on planes is the best! Your other suggestions are dead accurate, especially about carrying snacks & non-electronic diversions. I see more and more knitters pulling out their needles when delays are announced.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

For some reason, your voice seems to get through to her much better and smoother than mine on topics like frugality etc. : ) She totally looks up to you as a mentor! Unless it's an MBA from a top 10 school, or leads directly to a PhD in science of engineering, forget about it. For me, and for my girlfriend! What a rip-off.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

For years I've been trying to explain to my engineer husband how the numbers literally float around the page when I look at it and I should probably not be the one doing the taxes. On another note- I have the same types of issues with numbers. Great post.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 8, 2010

Most of the aerospace and civil engineers I've worked with never had to handle childrearing or other social duties. By the time the light goes on, we're long out of water, our engine's overheating and about to blow, and we only just got the memo! Also, the phrase "not exactly rocket science" was a trigger.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Many are engineers. You can find a guy like this – he may make less, probably won't be an Alpha Man CEO type, but they exist. They will be relentlessly normal, perhaps maddeningly undramatic at times, unusually interested in sci fi/fantasy/history/weird stuff and not glamorous.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 16, 2010

I teach a lot of leadership classes and recommend setting office hours for employee meetings to reduce interruptions, looking at email only 3 times for a total of 30 minutes a day to keep the box clear and catch urgent items, and to stick to routines like making a work list to stay on track. my desk is covered in to do lists.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Although I have to tell you that I think it's a good title for SEO (search engine optimization). Thanks for the insight, Kerry. The title actually makes me cringe, now that you say that. Not that I usually think of that, but now that I hate the title, I think of SEO to console myself.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 6, 2010

Since I am creatively challenged by nature (I'm an engineer) I will focus on the sugar aspect and add nerds and gummy bears (both available from the office candy/crack pusher) to decorate the cupcakes and hope for the best. Posted by Belinda Gomez on January 6, 2010 at 11:03 pm | permalink | My own buttercream? 25 types of sprinkles??

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I spend days dreaming up the perfect question for my mentor who I haven’t spoken to in a month. " I'm an engineer and I get those type of questions from time to time, although they are usually from people trying to get respite from the hard work required to actually learn the technology they are working on.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Most people with Asperger’s, even if they are geniuses at, say, engineering (which is very common ) get in trouble mid-career for lack of social skills. Is it worth risking his life in order to have social engineering? Clearly women look for leadership in how to conduct their lives. Don't you have an engine to tune up?

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

But then, when I told one of my mentors that I’m not good at sales, he said, “Of course you’re good at sales. Posted by Erika Harris on November 20, 2009 at 3:30 am | permalink | Reply About 15 years ago I was working at a startup software company that sold programs that helped you select the correct "engineered product."

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 14, 2010

But then I'm an engineer so maybe I'm biased :-). Being interesting to other people is exactly the sort of behavior society places a premium on yet those of us with Aspergers have so much difficulty with. An interested fulfilled through information consumption appeals very much to me!

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 4, 2009

When I was 22 and bartending my way through engineering school I fell in love with a 35 year old stockbroker. I used to work for a major corporation in a big fancy engineering mgmt job in MSP and gave it all up to move to podunk North Dakota just to marry a farmer.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 23, 2010

I also have it on good authority that the quality of Facebook's software engineering is shite. Of these, I think it is the inability to back up your own data that causes me the deepest concern. Apparently they have 6 different implementations of copy-paste that all behave slightly differently.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I went to the top engineering school in the country. The "smart kids" at my country bumpkin high school all went away to college and have been able to find successful careers in medicine, engineering, law and business despite having a high-school education that didn't include every AP class available to our city peers.

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