by Pat Sweet | Dec 8, 2012 | Article, Productivity
Here’s my latest entry in my How to Write an Email series. These posts are meant to help you develop skills in the most common and ubiquitous form of written communication in the world of information work: email. Today’s post is a bit of a twofer....
by Pat Sweet | Dec 2, 2012 | Article, Getting Started, Leadership, Professional Development
Today, I want to talk about something fundamental to this blog. I want to try and answer the question: why are technical leadership skills important anyway? I’m going to argue that technical leadership skills are the most important tool you have at your...
by Pat Sweet | Nov 27, 2012 | Article, Careers, Getting Started, Leadership, Professional Development
Many people are interested in leadership and have the potential to become incredible leaders. Unfortunately, the majority of those people don’t ever realize their potential because they don’t know where to start. Today, I want to offer a leadership...
by Pat Sweet | Nov 16, 2012 | Article, Careers, Professional Development
One of my goals for this blog is to share resources with you that could help you in developing yourself as an engineering leader. As of yet, I haven’t really put much out there in terms of educational resources, but today I’d like to change that....
by Pat Sweet | Nov 1, 2012 | Article, Productivity
Today’s instalment of my how to write an email series is going to focus on the stuff you do before you actually write the email. Specifically, I want to tackle the To, CC, and BCC fields. You might think that this isn’t all that important compared to the...