The Balanced Engineer: Essential Ideas for Career Development

1. How to Conduct Effective Performance Appraisals: Competency-Based Performance Management 2. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about State Legislatures, but Were Afraid to Ask 3. Grass-Roots Efforts that Can Affect Public Policy 4. Recommendations for Effective Communications to Influence Federal Policy Issues of Importance to Electrical Engineers 5. Employers` Engineering Education Needs for the New Millennium 6. Developing and Maintaining a Competitive Career 7. Effective Communication Skills for Engineers 8. Transitioning from Technical Professional to Manager 9. Successfully Speaking: Winning Government Orals by Giving Memorable Speeches 10. Coaching for Contribution: The Leadership Behaviors that Make a Difference 11. Mixed-Sex Team Communication: Avoiding Negative Conflict 12. Dealing with Office Politics 13. IEEE Engineering Management Society: A Resource for Your IEEE Responsibilities and Your Career 14. Basics of Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks 15. Communicating with Your Customers: Getting into Your Customers` Worlds to Serve Them Better 16. Life Work: Reducing Stress and Planning Your Career toward Personal Values 17. Innovate for Today 18. Yes, \"Tekkies\" Can Talk-And Sometimes Even Sell 19. People Skills in a Competitive Environment 20. The Young Professional as Manager: Managing Older Subordinates 21. Trends in Employee Benefits 22. Is Tax Relief Real? 23. Networking: Multi-Level Marketing Yourself 24. Benchmarking Engineering Skills against a Rapidly Changing Future 25. Career Management as Personal Marketing and Business Development 26. Lessons in Career Management from Silicon Valley: Key Factors for Continuous \"Employment\" 27. Effects of Humor on Social Influence Strategies in a Workplace Scenario