In this episode, we hosted Monte Pedersen from CDA Group, a prominent figure known for his expertise in strategic execution and leadership. With a rich background that includes a successful 30-year career in service management, Monte transition...

Jim Schafer is with Nenni & Associates, a specialized recruiting firm working with engineers and executives of all experience levels, specifically in the energy sector for the built environment. His podcast, The Building Efficiency Podcast,...

Steve delves into the importance of adaptability and flexibility in an engineering career. Drawing inspiration from Mike Tyson's quote about plans and unexpected challenges, Steve discusses how rigidity in thinking can hinder progress. He share...

Where you spend your energy will dictate how much control & influence you have over your career and your life. Your ability to consciously dictate where your energy flows will have a huge impact on your career. Audit where you are s...

Want to instantly become more visible within your company? Want to improve yourself? Learn to receive feedback. For engineers, feedback is so hard. Overcome the typical stereotypes, and unlock a great culture within your team and the or...

In this episode, I cover something that really unlocked my ability to move the needle on my engineering career. It led other discoveries as well, including the need to prioritize, not just work straight through what's in front me. I inv...

In this episode, we discuss how you can accelerate your career and your experience through unreasonably high levels of preparation. Specifically, we talk about the process of creating operating procedures for yourself which drives understanding...

In this episode, Jake discusses the fact that high performing engineers begin to master their next role before the opportunity arises to take said next role. Doing this while also maintaining a high level of achievement in your current role doe...

In this episode Jake covers his recommendations for those egnineers just starting out or for those managing engineers just starting out. This episode's topic centers around a couple of things you can do to immediately shine in the begin...

In this episode, Steve and I rapid fire some hot topics and give you our persepctive from our combined nearly 30 years experience as career engineers in two different engineering fields. This episode covers getting a job, rising through...

Let's talk about pairing people's strengths and weaknesses in order to win. This can happen at all levels of the business and your engineering career. It's one of those tactics that can lead to decreased frustration and friction in getting the ...

Most things that happen in your engineering career are not unique to your situation. Also, they are constantly occurring and changing with or without your conscious awareness. Will you become aware of these things and influence them to ...

We met with talent acquisition specialists from Klein Tools to discuss their experience with hiring 0-5+ year level engineers.If you are in that category, or are involved in the process of hiring engineers in that experience range, this...

Please allow Steve to clear this one up in this short but impactful episode with a strong message.  *****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!<...

Momentum = Impact * ConsistencyOur engineering careers are full of twists and turns and unknowns. It's just the way it is. It's also full of obstacles and roadblocks. What allows you to straighten the road, get into the unknowns...

Decrease the amount of time you spend on comparing yourself to others in your career who are "further along" than you and collecting reasons why they have what you want. Instead, spend more time thinking about what actions they take con...

You even wonder why people outside of your job are always talking about leadership? And the skills they don't teach you in school? And how understanding each other and having "empathy" will increase your success and happiness at home and at wor...

If you and your organization could stand out in others' minds as the engineers that are stress free, solutions-oriented, organized AF, helpful, clear and concise communicating, bringers of problem resolutions -------- would you do it? Is that v...

People will choose to do business with those they know, trust, and respect. Even if their service they provide is not "top notch." We can argue all day long about who does what better (especially amongst ourselves and our competitiors), and it ...

I've known Steve for a few months. This guy amazes me with his generosity (and fiery attitude). He helps people help themselves, and advises them to play "The Game" so they can gain an audience, be seen, and win.

Your ability to take vague direction and turn it into a desired outcome of the business is so important in your engineering career, but it's something I had never thought of before (in that way).I have been doing this for a long time, s...

Delegation for engineers. Ah yes, that endless debate on whether you should just do the work yourself. Are you in camp delegate, or camp do everything yourself? A healthy mixture of both? It's OK to be in either one, and there are seaso...

There is a long term and short term strategy around weaknesses and strengths in your engineering career that can have a huge impact if done correctly.Do you think about those weaknesses that you don't know about? How about the strengths...

Co-elevation is the key to an impactful career within an organization. How to achieve this is a broad subject that you can only "learn" so much about before you just have to dive in and start practicing it. We give you what we've learne...

We all know that someone that appears to be resistant to change, thinks they know everything, seems to be a brick wall to any influence, and definitely doesn't think they are the problem. I mean, I've definitely never been that person before :)...