The Development of Women and Young Professionals in STEM Careers Tips and Tricks 1st Edition by Michele Kruger, Hannelie Nel 1000702675 9781000702675

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ISBN-10 :  1000702675 

ISBN-13 :  9781000702675

Author:  Michele Kruger, Hannelie Nel 

This book is fluent and systematic. The authors work through the fears and ambitions of young people new to STEM careers in the professional environment. Often, there is a lack of mentors, which leaves a young STEM practitioner exposed and doubting their own abilities. This book encourages young professionals and women in STEM careers to know that they are not alone and provides insight into their ability to deal with the stress of developing into a successful professional. Features Presents a method or vehicle to fast track young professionals and women in STEM Includes key issues that they should be aware of as they grow and develop in their education and field Describes how STEM career women are owners of their own path and provides an understanding of engineering and the business of consulting Conveys how young professionals and women in STEM can be aware of their own productivity and enjoy what they do and the career path they have selected This book is ideal for those new to the engineering, science, and consulting fields, including students in science and engineering education, administrators, libraries, those involved in leadership, organization behavior, human resources, STEM, and other areas as well.

The Development of Women and Young Professionals in STEM Careers Tips and Tricks 1st Table of contents:

1 Passion for the Job
1.1 Forty Years (or More)
1.2 “Know Thyself”
1.3 Are You a Penguin?
1.4 Personality Testing
1.5 Finding Your Passion in Your Current Situation
1.6 Finding Your Passion Elsewhere
1.7 Finding a Niche
1.7.1 Definition of Niche
1.7.2 Creating a Niche
1.7.3 Finding Your Niche
1.8 Other Passionate People
1.9 Role Models
1.9.1 Inside Industry
1.9.2 Outside Industry
1.9.3 Global
1.10 Shunning Family/Peer Pressure to Make the Right Decisions for Your Career
2 Emotional Intelligence
2.1 So What Exactly Is Emotional Intelligence?
2.2 Why Is EI Important?
2.2.1 Subordinates
2.2.2 Clients
2.2.3 What Is My Version of Success?
2.2.4 What Is the Meaning of Success to Me?
2.2.5 Playing to Your Strengths
2.2.6 Being Needed (Which Is What Most People Want)
2.2.7 Putting EI to Work for You
2.2.7.1 First and foremost … don’t give up your power!
2.2.7.2 Build strong relationships at work
2.2.7.3 Your attitude at work
2.2.7.4 When emotions hold you prisoner
2.2.7.5 Beware the blame game
2.2.7.6 Being right just doesn’t matter
2.2.7.7 Seeing possibility
2.3 How Much Do You Care about What Others Think?
2.4 Be Memorable, Be Yourself
2.5 Self-Actualization
3 Thinking Strategically about Your Career
3.1 Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude
3.1.1 Attitude, Attitude, Attitude and Working Hard
3.1.2 Asking for Work
3.1.3 Seeing Obstacles as Opportunities
3.1.4 Getting Involved—The Story of a Bar Lady
3.2 Taking Responsibility
3.2.1 Take Initiative
3.2.2 Taking on Responsibility
3.2.3 Learning to Make Decisions, Even Wrong Ones
3.2.4 Making My Boss’s Life Easier
3.2.5 Working on a Team
3.2.6 Deadlines
3.2.7 Becoming Aware of My Own Productivity
3.2.8 Relationships with Clients
3.2.9 Making Promises
3.2.10 Be Consistent
3.3 Professional Registration in STEM
3.3.1 Why You Should Do It
3.3.2 Tips on Registration
4 Mentorship
4.1 It’s a Lonely, Lonely Road to Walk
4.2 What Is Mentorship and What Is Coaching?
4.3 Why a Mentoring Relationship?
4.4 What Are the Responsibilities of a Mentor?
4.5 What Are the Responsibilities of a Mentee?
4.6 Personalities and Possible Pitfalls
4.7 What Are the Responsibilities of a Coach?
4.8 Building a Career Path with Your Mentor
4.9 It’s a Two-Way Street
4.10 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
4.11 Life Is a School of Hard Knocks
5 Leadership
5.1 Managing People
5.1.1 Inspirational Leadership (People Leave Managers)
5.1.2 Be Professional
5.1.3 Don’t Get Personally Involved
5.1.4 Treat Everyone Equally
5.1.5 Give Praise When It’s Deserved
5.1.6 Say Thank You
5.1.7 Be Respectful
5.1.8 Don’t Force Unrealistic Deadlines
5.1.9 ALWAYS Take FULL Responsibility
5.1.10 Working with Clients
5.1.10.1 Everyone has responsibilities
5.1.10.2 Bigger picture marketing
5.1.10.3 Everyone appreciates hard work and dedication
5.1.10.4 Delivering realistic products (listen!)
5.1.10.5 Going beyond the expected
5.1.10.6 Promoting the client
5.2 Developing Leadership Skills
6 Authority, Responsibility, and Ownership
6.1 What Is Authority versus Responsibility?
6.2 Pitfalls of Responsibility without Authority
6.3 How Do You Fit into Your Company and What Are Your Responsibilities?
6.4 How Will Your Responsibilities Change as You Move to Where You Want to Be?
6.5 What Is Business Ownership?
6.6 What Type of Ownership Structures Exist?
6.6.1 Public versus Private
6.6.2 Financial versus Other Input
6.7 What Are the Benefits of Ownership?
6.8 What Are the Pitfalls of Ownership?
6.9 What Are the Responsibilities of Ownership?
6.10 Do You Deserve Ownership?
7 Communication
7.1 How to Communicate with Clients
7.2 How to Communicate with Leadership
7.3 How to Communicate with Peers and Subordinates
7.4 Benefits of Frequent Communication or “Checking In”
7.5 Pitfalls of Communication and Technology
7.5.1 Emails
7.5.2 Phone Calls and WhatsApp
8 Marketing and Selling
8.1 External
8.2 Internal
8.3 Networking
8.4 Personal Branding
9 Intrapreneurship
9.1 See Your Unit as a Business
9.2 What Is Your Value Add?
9.3 Leveraging Other Business Units
10 Entrepreneurship
10.1 Finding Opportunities
10.2 Your Trump Card Is Being Flexible
10.3 Bankability of Ideas
10.4 Using Every Opportunity to Punt Your Services
10.5 You’re Not Above Anything
10.6 Ethics
10.7 Tips to Get Going
11 Innovation
11.1 Innovation in Service
11.1.1 Value-Added Service
11.1.2 Fit for Purpose
11.1.3 Intellectual Property
11.2 How to Foster Innovative Thinking in Your Team
11.3 Some Ideas That Will Need Your Consideration in Innovation
12 Financial Intelligence
12.1 Personal Finance
12.1.1 Know What Your Expenses Are—And What They Will Be in the Future
12.1.2 Know What Your Income Is—And What It Will Be in the Future
12.2 Business Finance
12.2.1 As a Young Person
12.2.2 As a Business Owner
12.2.2.1 Cashflow
12.2.2.2 Death and taxes
12.2.2.3 Insurance
12.2.2.4 Business development
12.2.2.5 Your reputation
12.2.2.6 Business partners
12.2.2.7 Integrity
13 Risk and Quality Management
13.1 What Are the Typical Risks Facing Your Company?
13.1.1 Financial
13.1.2 Liabilities
13.1.3 Insurances
13.1.4 What Are the Typical Risks Included in Your Projects?
13.2 Quality Management Pitfalls
14 Sustainability
14.1 What Is Sustainability?
14.2 Why Is Sustainability Important for a Company?
14.3 Why Is Sustainability Important for a Project?
14.3.1 Resilient Infrastructure
14.3.2 Lifecycle Costing
14.3.3 Environmental Impact Assessment
14.3.4 Social Issues
14.4 How Can You Make a Difference?
15 Attracting, Developing, and Retaining Women Engineers and Scientists
15.1 Factors That Impact Encouragement into the Field of Engineering
15.1.1 Initial Factors
15.1.1.1 Wow factor
15.1.1.2 Helping society
15.1.1.3 Income
15.1.2 Building Awareness through Career Development
15.1.3 The Use of Media
15.2 The Very Real Challenges Facing Young Women in STEM
15.2.1 Waiting for Someone to Save You
15.2.2 Family/Community/Societal Obligations (Perceived or Real)
15.2.3 Historical Roles
15.2.4 Fighting the Glass Ceiling
15.2.5 Much Older Subordinates
15.2.6 Much Older Contractors
15.2.7 Lack of Training, Coaching, and Mentorship
15.2.8 Limited Promotion
15.2.9 Lack of Career Focus and Passion
15.3 Influences on Women in Engineering
15.3.1 The Strongest Positive Influences and Support
15.3.2 The Strongest Negative Influences
15.4 What Do Women in STEM Need?
15.5 Practical Tips and Tricks as a Working Woman and Mom to Help with a Balanced Life

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