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The Balanced Engineer: Essential Ideas for Career Development

The Balanced Engineer is a hardbound collection of papers delivered at IEEE-USA's 1999 Professional Awareness Conference around the theme "Essential Ideas for Career Development." In this one volume (215 pages), you can find useful advice and information on leadership development, teamwork, negotiating, networking, and other professional skills.

The Balanced Engineer includes such topics as:

  • How to Conduct Effective Performance Appraisals: Competency-Based Performance Management
  • Grass-Roots Efforts that Can Affect Public Policy
  • Employer's Engineering Education Needs for the New Millenium
  • Developing and Maintaining a Competitive Career
  • Effective Communication Skills for Engineers
  • Transitioning from Technical Professional to Manager
  • Successfully Speaking: Winning Government Orals by Giving Memorable Speeches
  • Coaching for Contribution: The Leadership Behaviors that Make a Difference
  • Mixed-Sex Team Communications: Avoiding Negative Conflict
  • Dealing with Office Politics
  • Basics of Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks
  • Communicating with Your Customers
  • Life Work: Reducing Stress and Planning Your Career Toward Personal Values
  • Innovate for Today
  • Yes, "Tekkies" Can Talk--And Sometimes Even Sell
  • People Skills in a Competitive Environment
  • The Young Professional as Manager: Managing Older Subordinates
  • Trends in Employee Benefits
  • Is Tax Relief Real?
  • Networking: Multi-Level Marketing Yourself
  • Benchmarking Engineering Skills Against a Rapidly Changing Future
  • Career Management as Personal Marketing and Business Development
  • Lessons in Career Management from Silicon Valley
  • Effects of Humor on Social Influence Strategies in a Workplace Scenario

 

Order Number: UH2980 Member Price: $24.95 List Price: $40.00

 


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