How to be a star engineer

How to be a star engineer

04/11/2023 Copyright 2013 Trend Micro Inc.

9 Tips

• Basic– Blazing trails– Knowing who knows– Teamwork as joint ownership of a project

• Middle– Proactive self-management– The right kind of followership– Show and tell

• Advanced– Getting the big picture– Small-l leadership– Street smarts


BASIC


Blazing trails

• Seek out responsibility above and beyond job description

• Undertake extra efforts for the benefit

• Step willingly into the gaps between jobs descriptions

• Stick tenaciously to an idea or project and follow it through to successful implementation


Knowing who knows

• Develop two-way streets to the experts in their networks

• Ask the right people to solve problem faster


Teamwork as joint ownership of a project

• Involve taking joint "ownership" of goal-setting, group commitment, work activities, schedules and group accomplishments

• Help everyone feel part of the team,Deal with the conflict,Assist others in solving problems


MIDDLE


Proactive self-management

• Direct work choices

• Create opportunities

• Perform extra well on the job

• Carve out a career path


The right kind of followership

• Realize the importance of being a good No. 2

• Exercise independent

• Critical judgment about what needs to be done and how to do

Show and tell

• Select either the right message for a particular audience or the right audience for the particular message.

• Skill of deliver a message to a targeted audience,persuade listeners to accept the message,proactive in deflecting criticism.


ADVANCE

Getting the big picture

• Step outside their own viewpoint and adopt a variety of perspectives.

• Star perspective grows out of getting enough experience to develop pattern recognition.

Small-l leadership

• Build on expertise and influence to convice a group of people to unite on a substantial task.

• Understand the human relationships that link people to each other.

• Take into accout the needs, skills, aspiration, and power of their co-workers.

Street smarts

• Know that any large organization has legitimate competing interests.

• Organizational savvy enables them to steer their way amid these clashes, to promote cooperation, address conflicts, and get things done.

• Managing individual or group dynamics, understanding when to avoid conflicts and when to meet them head on, and knowing how to make allies out of potential enemies.


Stars are made,

not born.

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How to be a star engineer