The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 27, 2010

Learn More… Comments 5 Responses to “Effective Communication Skills: You Don’t Know Until You Ask&# Lori W says: March 30, 2010 at 9:46 pm Everytime you ASSUME someone’s intention, you are just making up a story about the “WHY&#. He now enjoys speaking, writing, and teaching these relationship principles to others.

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The Recovering Engineer

MAY 7, 2010

How to apply powerful psychological principles in a practical way to help you control your response and develop influence with others. I’ll announce it here when I’ve finished developing the content to make it a useful relationship building and conflict resolution training resource. That site should be ready soon.

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Tips Emotional Intelligence Engineering FAQ 198

The Recovering Engineer

JANUARY 11, 2011

We have our families who have tolerated the long-hours of travel, phone calls, blog posts, article writing, meetings, and website development it takes to get a book written, published, and sold. We have blogging and promotional partners who will be helping us to get the word out around February 15 when the book becomes officially available.

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The Recovering Engineer

JULY 13, 2010

This is the topic of the Bud to Boss workshop that Kevin Eikenberry and I developed). We spoke about a number of issues related to the transition to leadership people make when they take their first supervisory role. How to think about the relationship changes you face in the transition. The big issues facing new supervisors.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

All week, I have been sharing my thoughts and insights on communication skills, motivation theory, leadership, team-building, and persuasion. You can do some things to improve your communication skills. There are some things you can do to create situations where people want to do what you want them to do.

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How To Engineering FAQ Cooper 218

The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 12, 2010

I see the same problem develop just about everywhere I see people interact. What is this huge problem? People make assumptions about other people’s intentions.

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Pryor Emotional Intelligence Engineering FAQ 210

The Recovering Engineer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Even when the list starts shifting to personal development, task accomplishment and money issues, there are still relationship based items mixed in. I’d lump trust and respect and add training and development to the list. Good point about training and development. Makes no sense. Reply What Do You Think?

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Engineering FAQ Video Self-aware 199

The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 12, 2010

He developed a theory that people tend to develop a self-concept based on one of four factors — Dominance, Inducement, Steadiness, or Compliance. Later psychologists and behavioral specialists developed a variety of practical tools to apply Marston’s theory. William Moulton Marston in the 1920′s.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S.

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Team Engineering FAQ Emotional Intelligence 186

The Recovering Engineer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Quickly, in less than an hour, we listed, ranked and developed specific action plans for overcoming their biggest challenges. In the process of looking over my notes and thinking through the planned events tomorrow, I started reflecting on a meeting that I facilitated for a client in Indiana last week.

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Engineering FAQ Tips Video 210

The Recovering Engineer

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

All you have to do is claim it to get access to leadership development resources including: Videos Ebooks Special reports Audio recordings Excerpts from the new book, From Bud to Boss And more! When you visit the voting page, you will find links to eleven top-flight blogs on leadership. You can see the list of blogs and vote at this page.

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Blog Leadership FAQ Engineering 117

The Recovering Engineer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

In developing the book, Kevin and I thought of many ways to get the tips, techniques, insights, and ideas we developed in the book into as many people’s hands as possible, and you have an opportunity to take advantage of two of those events in the next few weeks. The book is scheduled for release in January of 2011.

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Performance Review Engineering FAQ Emotional Intelligence 105

The Recovering Engineer

APRIL 19, 2010

I’m drawing some of this post content from a video course I am developing on resolving personal workplace conflicts. In this post, I will quickly show a model of what often happens during conflict escalation. By understanding the model, we can plan positive steps to back conflicts down after they start.

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Engineering Video FAQ Self-aware 223

The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Later, when I was working as a research engineer in the chemical industry, I used the concept of design margin as I developed new products and worked with customers to get our products qualified for their applications. Safe engineering design always considers, allows for, and builds in some margin for safety.

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Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Chemicals 169

The Recovering Engineer

JULY 29, 2010

If it was more negative, we needed to develop a plan to leave the situation. If it was more positive, we needed to go forward without complaining about the negative because we had chosen to accept it into our lives for the moment. In my case, I chose to stay.

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Cost-Benefit Analysis Workshop Engineering FAQ 114

The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 18, 2010

I have seen this concept discussed in a number of ways and in a variety of contexts.

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Engineering Self-aware Video FAQ 210

The Recovering Engineer

APRIL 8, 2010

If you imagine at your emotional container like a bottle filled with a carbonated beverage and sealed with a stopper, you can develop a simple model for understanding what happens when you get angry so that you can attack the anger at it’s source rather than trying to control it after it happens.

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How To Engineering Self-aware Video 114

The Recovering Engineer

JANUARY 26, 2010

Did you catch the reinvention part of the story? You see, I’m a lot like Bubble Wrap.

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Succession Chemicals Engineering Self-aware 108

The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 27, 2010

The wikipedia article about General McChrystal says: Following insubordinate remarks about Vice President Joe Biden and other administration officials attributed to McChrystal and his aides in a Rolling Stone article, McChrystal was recalled to Washington, D.C.

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Leadership Engineering FAQ Video 248