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soft skills for engineering and IT professionals
1 online resource (xxv, 160 pages) : illustrations
Annotation Fast-Tracking Your Career provides engineers and IT professionals with a complete set of soft skills they can use to become more effective on the job and gain recognition from management and colleagues. The 11 core skills covered here are accompanied by more than 40 detailed guidelines on how to master those skills. The book offers first-rate advice on how to go about acquiring communication skills, people skills, presentation skills, time management skills, and others. Specific examples about current situations are discussed, exploring the impact of the Facebook phenomenon and the subprime mortgage crisis.
Cover; IEEE Press; Title page; Copyright page; Fundamental Soft Skill Principle: Cultivating Gain-Gain Perspectives; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Guest Introduction I; Guest Introduction II; Guest Introduction III; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction and Summary; Engineers Are Potentially Better Positioned As Executives; Categorization of Smart soft Skills; Rules for Mastering Smart Soft Skills; Relationships among the Soft Skills; Interdependence; Parts making up the whole; Part One: Communications: The Absolutely Necessary; Chapter One: Communications Smart.
Part Two: Dealing with People: The EssentialChapter Two: People Smart; Chapter Three: Marketing Smart; A Marketing Role Model: Steve Jobs (and His Embodiment, Apple); Resonance; Positive spin; Crafted presentation; Enthusiasm; Reference; Part Three: Dealing with the Self: The Basic; Chapter Four: Work Smart; Chapter Five: Time Smart; Chapter Six: Career Smart; Part Four: Dealing with the Boss: Earning Trust and Recognition; Chapter Seven: Job-Interview Smart; Stories of Failed Interviews; A Successful Interview Story; Collecting relevant information through "networking."
Preparing targeted elevator speechesPositive spin; Resonance with a vision; Showing confidence; Chapter Eight: Boss Smart; Part Five: Dealing with Staff: Inspiring Loyalty and Productivity; Chapter Nine: Motivating Smart; Chapter Ten: Delegating Smart; Part Six: Being Visionary: Leading to the C-Suite; Chapter Eleven: Beyond the Box; Successful Fast-Tracking Stories; Final Thoughts; The Book's Objective; "Soft Skills" and "Rules" Outside the Scope of This Book; Born with personality; Rules that have already been covered in the book more effectively.
Rules that are the effects of soft skills but are not soft skills themselvesRules that are mottos but not themselves soft skills; Rules that are not essential to career fast-tracking; Rules that are expected of any competent professional; High Achievers' Soft Skills; Personal Career Goals; Appendix Tables for Principles, Strategies, and Rules; Abbreviations; Index.
"Hard skills help us qualify for a job; soft skills dictate our career growth."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2013]
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