Fast-Tracking Your Career

Fast-Tracking Your Career: Soft Skills for Engineering and IT Professionals (IEEE PCs Professional Engineering Communication)
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.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: Communications: The Absolutely Necessary
Chapter 1 Communications Smart 13

PART TWO: Dealing with People: The Essential
Chapter 2 People Smart 31
Chapter 3 Marketing Smart 49

PART THREE: Dealing with the Self: The Basic
Chapter 4 Work Smart 59
Chapter 5 Time Smart 65
Chapter 6 Career Smart 77

PART FOUR: Dealing with the Boss: Earning Trust and Recognition
Chapter 7 Job-Interview Smart 89
Chapter 8 Boss Smart 101

PART FIVE: Dealing with Staff: Inspiring Loyalty and Productivity
Chapter 9 Motivating Smart 111

PART SIX: Being Visionary: Leading to the C-Suite
Chapter 11 Beyond the Box 127

Appendix Tables for Principles, Strategies, and Rules 141