soft skills for engineering and IT professionals /
Wushow "Bill" Chou
1st ed
1 online resource (xxv, 160 pages) :
illustrations
"Hard skills help us qualify for a job; soft skills dictate our career growth."
Edition statement from running title
Includes bibliographical references and index
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