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NON-TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
WILL HELP YOU EARN
CAREER SUCCESS AND SECURITY

Whether we are an employee, independent consultant, or entrepreneur, technical
competencies are necessary, but not sufficient, for personal success and
fulfillment. This observation applies whether we serve in the private, public,
academic, or volunteer sectors. Non-technical or “soft side” competencies enable
us to work more effectively with supervisors, supervisees, colleagues, clients,
customers, students, the public, other stakeholders, and members of our
community, neighborhood, and family. Augmenting technical competencies with
“soft-side” knowledge, skills, and attitudes is the key to earning career
security, a much more viable life strategy than chasing job security.

Using my knowledge of and experience with non-technical knowledge and skills, I
help individuals and organizations engineer their futures.

See the bottom of this page for over 60 of my essays, professional papers, and
other documents.  These complimentary offerings touch on a wide variety of
mostly non-technical (professional practice) topics and are arranged in 9
categories (e.g., Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Leadership and
Change, Personal Development) for your convenience.

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."

-Henry Ford


WEBINAR FOR ONLINE ETHICS CENTER (OEC) -- I have been invited by the OEC to
speak during the Center's fall program. My November 8 webinar is titled "Ethics:
Some Finer Points." Click here for information about OEC and its upcoming
program.

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COMMUNICATIVE ENGINEER -- I am pleased to announce that John Wiley & Sons
recently published my text and reference book, The Communicative Engineer: How
to Ask, Listen, Write, Speak, and Use Visuals. Engineering faculty and
practitioners, click here to learn about the book. Its focus on five modes of
communication is unique.

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EARN CEUS AND LEARN USING ARCHIVED WEBINARS -I have presented 340 webinars as
part of the continuing education program of the American Society of Civil
Engineers. ASCE archived 17 of my "road-tested" personal development,leade
rship, management, communication, and ethics webinars. They may be purchased at
individual, group, ASCE member, and non-ASCE member rates. For topics and
prices, click here.

By taking and passing a post-test, users earn CEUs with the number based on the
webinar length.


Looking for a gift for a recent college graduate who wants to have a successful
career? Then consider one of these books: The Communicative Engineer,
Engineering’s Public-Protection Predicament, Introduction to Creativity and
Innovation for Engineers, Engineering Your Future, and Managing and Leading.


THIS WEBSITE WILL ENABLE YOU TO IMPROVE YOUR "SOFT SIDE" COMPETENCIES AND
RELEASE THE LEADER WITHIN YOU

So called nontechnical, “soft side” competencies are often devalued or
diminished. They are said to be of little importance or easy. “Soft side”
competencies are neither.

Too many professionals fail to advance in their careers – to acquire career
security – because they lack “soft side” knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Sometimes they do not realize their liability. We need to know something is
“broken” if we are to “fix” it. In other cases, individuals know they have “soft
side” deficiencies but fail to see the value in taking corrective action. Either
way, the result is the same – failure to realize individual potential, to find
and release the leader within.

If you recognize the value of “soft side” competencies you also know that they
are not necessarily easy to acquire. Mastering nontechnical competencies
requires knowledge of best practices and then thoughtful application of them.
This website provides resources to help you practice improved stewardship with
your gifts and your personality profile and make better use of who you are and
what and who you know.

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THOUGHTS FOR SUPERVISORS, MANAGERS, EXECUTIVES,
ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS, AND
HUMAN RESOURCES PERSONNEL
TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR MENTORING AND COACHING EFFORTS

You are responsible for the development of supervisees and others. You are also
busy. Please consider two suggestions.

 1. If study of specific nontechnical or “soft-side” topics is likely to be of
    value to certain supervisees and others, refer them to this website or
    specific portions of it, such as the Managing and Leading Books.
    
    
    
    
 2. Some “soft side” needs or deficiencies may go beyond individuals, that is,
    many individuals at one or more locations need help. For example,
    individuals may be working extra hard but not achieving as much as you and
    they would like. In this case, perhaps an on-site, face-to-face seminar or
    workshop about time management, effectiveness and efficiency, goal setting,
    and/or team essentials would be appropriate. Another option, and often a
    very cost-effective approach for simultaneous delivery to two or more
    locations, is a webinar, that is, use of the internet and a telephone
    conference call for which no one needs to travel anywhere. If the group mode
    of education and training interests you, for examples, please refer to the
    web page Tailored Education and Training. If you would like to discuss the
    feasibility of tailoring a seminar, webinar, or workshop to your
    organization’s needs, please call me at 219-242-1704 or contact me at
    stu-walesh@comcast.net.


FINAL THOUGHT

We seem to be under ever-increasing pressure to increase productivity, to
accomplish more with what we have and, sometimes, to do more with less. At a
deeper level, many of us aspire to be even better stewards of our time and
talents. At the very deepest level, we yearn for more than personal success; we
seek significance in what we do. We want to get beyond ourselves, positively
affect others, and make a difference. This requires managing and leading
ability.

You can improve your managing and leading knowledge, skills, and attitudes –
your “soft side” competencies—so that you can remain employable, earn career
security, and enjoy success and significance.

Stuart G. Walesh

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Communication

 * Body Language
 * Power of Questions: Why the Reluctance to Ask Them?
 * Prop Up Your Presentations
 * Trim Our Hedges?
 * Tune-Up Your Five Communication Channels
 * Use Props in Your Presentations
 * Write to Find Out What We Are Thinking and to Learn

Creativity and Innovation

 * A Half-Brain is Good: A Whole-Brain Much Better
 * A Whole-Brain Approach to Increased Individual and Organizational
   Effectiveness for Engineers
 * Art for Engineers: Encouraging More Right-Mode Thinking
 * Brain Stewardship: Caring for Our Brain
 * Brain Stewardship: Our Brief Earthly Opportunity
 * Build Heads of STEAM
 * Creativity: Killing or Cultivating? 
 * Design Fixation: Fix It and Innovate More
 * Engineers as Composers
 * From Bird Beak to Fast Train: Biomimicry
 * Mind Your Mind  
 * Neuroscience 101: Might Your Teaching and Their Learning Benefit?
 * Nix Your Negativity Bias
 * Our Conscious and Subconscious Minds: A Powerful Duo
 * Using the Power of Habits to Work Smarter
 * Why the Push-Back on Creativity and Innovation?
 * Working and Living Smarter Presentations/Workshops and Publications
 * Working Smarter: More Effective, Efficient, and Innovative
 * 20 Methods to Stimulate Creative/Innovative Thinking

Ethics

 * Boeing’s Licensure-Exemption Culture
 * Ethics Advice from a Utility Manager
 * Integrate Ethics into Interviews with Prospective Employees
 * Report Review: A Compliance and Ethics Program On A-Dollar-A-Day

Exemplary Engineers

 * Octave Chanute: Engineer and Aviation Pioneer
 * John Glenn: Life Phases and Goals
 * Herbert Hoover: Engineer, President, and Humanitarian
 * Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, PhD: Finding a Better Way and Saving Lives
 * Mae Jemison: Studying Engineering Launched Her Careers
 * Arthur E. Morgan: Renaissance Engineer
 * William R. Ratliff: Engineer and Politician
 * Osborne Reynolds: Inquisitive Experimenter
 * David B. Steinman: PE, NSPE Founder, Master Bridge Builder, and Writer

Leadership and Change

 * A Way to Look at the Organization in Which You Want to Effect Change
 * Avoiding But-Phobia: Get in on the Other Side of But
 * Resistance to Change
 * The BOK and Leadership Lessons Learned
 * The Leader Within You: Let It Come Out!
 * The Paradox of Effecting Change
 * 20 Questions for Change Leaders

Marketing

 * I Don't Care How Much You Know Until I Know How Much You Care
 * Marketing: Back to Basics
 * Price-Based Selection: Three Costs to the Consultant
 * The Chimney Sweep and the Sewer Cleaner
 * The Language of Marketing: A Glossary

Miscellaneous

 * Archived Webinars
 * Timely Advice for Engineering?
 * University Adoptions of Engineering Your Future

Organizational Health

 * Broken Window Theory
 * Comparison of the Essentials of Strategic Planning and Basic Operations
 * Create, Use, and Continuously Improve Written Guidance
 * Is Your Organization Healthy?
 * Show-and-Tell Interviewing
 * 7 Steps to Getting a Solid ROI from Your Internal Education and Training
   Events

Personal Development

 * Boats Offer Lessons For Us and Our Organizations
 * Do You Make Mistakes? Great
 * DWYSYWD
 * Five Suggestions for Engineering Students and Young Practitioners
 * Force or Finesse
 * If Deep and Lasting Learning is Your Goal, Take Class Notes by Hand (PDF)
 * Licensure: A Step Toward Career Security
 * Power of Goals
 * Takes a Family
 * Taking Multi-tasking To Task
 * Thoughts for the Not Yet Employed or the Recently Unemployed Engineer
 * Remember When You Almost…
 * Why Do We Resist Change?
 * You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

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The Communicative Engineer: How to Ask, Listen, Write, Speak, and Use Visuals


Engineering’s Public-Protection Predicament


Introduction to Creativity and Innovation for Engineers


Managing and Leading: 52 Lessons Learned for Engineers


Engineering Your Future


Introduction to Creativity and
Innovation for Engineers -
Global Edition


Managing and Leading:
44 Lessons Learned for
Pharmacists


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