Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career. Of course, this is sort of like asking a baker if bread is worth baking. You asked for a sample goal.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

The devotion that many leaders feel for their businesses infuses everything, from company culture and engineering to the snacks in the kitchen. The leader’s curse is a condition that can be very dangerous to the financial health of your company, your competitive edge, culture, and professional career.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2021

Tammy Cravit is a data engineer, friend, and advocate for LGBTQ inclusion. I also wanted to share with you my story about the power of authenticity and vulnerability, because I truly believe it is the key to everything I have achieved in my career in the last few years. Authenticity and Career Success.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

That Wasn’t a Compliment Early in my (David’s) career, I worked in a very culturally diverse organization. It’s so depressing and hard to feel energy for anything.” “I If culture is “what people like us do,” then story-telling is the engine that drives your team’s culture. I don’t “care” or want to be friends with my team.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2018

To be ranked in that rarefied air means one has invested and IS investing time, energy, and passion into that avenue. She invests the time, energy, and passion because she legitimately cares about others. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 25, 2022

I know because I’ve heard this feedback many times in my career and relationships. For the idea people, they want to explore and build on ideas, not have their creativity and energy crushed before their ideas can breathe. We once worked with a very literal-minded engineer who had a reputation as a caustic teammate.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Chris Edmonds : Being around values mis-aligned people lowers trust, discretionary energy, and performance. I’ve been very lucky throughout my career to be attracted to jobs and opportunities where I’ve worked with people who share my values and life principles. Guest post from S. 2) Observe the decisions and behaviors of others.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 9, 2019

Employees are more proactive, more present, and more productive with the application of their discretionary energy. ? After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. As employee commitment goes up, employees willingly demonstrate discretionary effort. ?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

T]he contact and the focus and the energy I get from sparring gives me energy to make movies, energy to be a dad, energy to be a friend, and, you know, makes me feel, probably, a lot younger and behave a lot younger than I am.”. This observation, I believe, is a good lesson for anyone, especially those in management.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Offices should be designed to maximize energy and interactions , not for isolation and status. One of our early engineers, Matt Cutts, recall how he would often see Urs Hölzle, the engineering executive who led the creation of Google’s data center infrastructure, pick up small bits of trash in the hallway as he walked through the office.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

With so many people leaving a job within the first six months of starting, the problem of poor job matching is a chronic waste of time, energy and resources. From this, the team utilized AI to create a ‘vocation compass’, which is basically a recommendation engine to try and match people to jobs based upon their personality.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2023

As I said, I know because I’ve heard this feedback before in my career and relationships. People want to explore and build on ideas and not have their creativity and energy crushed before their idea can breathe. One time we worked with a very literal-minded engineer who had a reputation as a caustic teammate.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 31, 2018

Helping employees find significance simply takes time, energy, and engagement. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, author, and executive consultant.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

They also offer specialized expertise in engineering, procurement and construction. The oilfield services market has been booming due to the growing energy demand. These services include providing equipment and supplies for various purposes, including drilling and fracking. Visit [link] to learn more about oilfield support services.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 25, 2018

Evolve, Learn & Refine Daily With your standards now defined, spend time and energy paying attention to the quality of the work environment and your team’s performance. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Test new approaches.

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HR Digest

MAY 16, 2022

Here we look at the concept of polyworking, millennials and Gen Zers having multiple careers, and how polywork will impact your organization in the long run. The lack of work-life balance made many of us switch careers for better money and fulfillment. This gives them freedom and more energy to focus on their work. .

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2015

Fifteen years ago, I reinvented myself and started a new career in faith-based social services. They will develop engineering and math skills while learning a simple, clean energy technology to generate electricity. ” Kids use a volt meter to explore the bicycle’s ability to generate energy.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Off Balance: High IQ Leaders Often Have Lower EQ Many of our audience and workshop participants are STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) specialists who have been promoted to management positions because of their technical expertise. But, too often, STEMM leadership is an oxymoron.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Digital event: Deep Dive into the Energy Sector In case you missed it, the CMI APAC Regional Boards recently delivered a Deep Dive into the Energy Sector Digital Event. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Hong Kong Section was also a co-sponsor of the event.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 8, 2018

People in task-oriented jobs, including physicians, lawyers and engineers, are vulnerable to loneliness. I switched careers and co-founded a company to focus on the issue of culture and its effect on employees and performance. The degree of social interaction in a job has also been found in research to affect loneliness.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Crafting an organizational constitution then aligning practices to that constitution takes time, energy, and attention on the part of leaders, every day. My book, The Culture Engine , presents five levels or degrees of workplace culture health. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, author, and executive consultant.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 18, 2021

The study charts the progress made by Sweden from a poor, northern country into a modern industrial power, harnessing electrical energy to transform industry, transportation, and agriculture. This was a more reliable source of energy that allowed the pace of production to rise.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 9, 2011

Generally speaking there are two types of spheres of influence…those that just evolve over time by default, and those that are strategically engineered. Great relationships take great amounts of effort, energy and commitment. Be sure that your vision is based first and foremost on adding value to the lives and careers of others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Female retention in engineering remains a persistent problem. To build a deeper understanding of these experiences and how women deal with them, we interviewed and surveyed more than 330 engineers in the U.S. (43% 43% female, 57% male) from 2013-2017, and spoke with more than 20 female engineers at professional conferences in the U.S.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. ” Since participation in this career/leadership program for “high potentials” is voluntary, defensiveness is usually low, and interest in learning and developing is high.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 24, 2016

Within days of receiving Einstein’s letter, FDR established an advisory committee to investigate using atomic energy for national defense. General Groves, a 250- to 300-pound crusty veteran career officer, began to pull together the people and the resources to make it happen.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 9, 2015

But that energy can be dissipated if our actions are scattered and we feel pulled in various directions. Once we know who we are and what we''re meant to do, we have new-found energy that pulls us forward. Powerful counter-vailing forces appear when we attempt to engineer positive change alone. Change takes practice.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Alan Mulally , the former CEO of Boeing , started his career there as an aerospace engineer. The leader becomes the cheerleader for the organization, focusing everyone’s energy in the same direction. In 2006, he transitioned to the CEO of Ford Motor Company. My squadron had detachments in 13 locations around the country.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 2, 2016

The 26 th President led a very tragic life; it made him empathetic and a great leader Guest post from Jon Knokey : Certainly there can only be one Theodore Roosevelt: the smile, the bombastic laugh, the unbridled energy that bore him the nickname the “steam engine in trousers.” Theodore gave the masses energy and vibrancy.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

You could feel the good energy there. You can tell when the good energy that should be flowing in your organization is blocked by fear. The HR Digest: In your podcast “Break the Rules To Get the Job You Deserve,” you discuss unconventional career advice. Yes, there are so many. It’s not effective.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 1, 2013

The atmosphere crackles with an optimistic, can-do energy. He said that in the years following Kennedy’s articulation of that goal, NASA engineers would periodically hit a major roadblock and declare the goal impossible. So the engineers would go back to their benches with a renewed determination to do the impossible.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Engineering faces a serious gender-based retention problem. Despite all the efforts encouraging women to study engineering, over 40% of highly skilled women who enter the field end up leaving. In 2014 we interviewed 34 women engineers in two FTSE 100 firms in the UK. vgajic/Getty Images.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 12, 2015

Being clear on your intangible assumptions allows you to engineer a dynamic equilibrium where all the parts of your life work synergistically in a highly interrelated whole. Values often influence people''s choices about where to invest their energies. These values and principles are easily observed by others through one''s behavior.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 24, 2015

But that energy can be dissipated if our actions are scattered and we feel pulled in various directions. Once we know who we are and what we're meant to do, we have new-found energy that pulls us forward. Powerful countervailing forces appear when we attempt to engineer positive change alone.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Women engineers have a visibility problem. In 2014 we interviewed 50 women engineers in three leading FTSE 100 organizations in the UK. All three organizations said they were committed to diversity and were attempting to hire, retain, and promote more women engineers. Peter Cade/Getty Images.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

CMI Malaysia at IET Gala On 18 February, representatives from CMI Malaysia attended the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia prestige lecture and award dinner. “Enjoy, learn, unlearn and reframe and, as always, if you need even more details, reach out and enquire.” Listen to their discussion here !

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