How to be a Star Engineer

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How to be a Star Engineer
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The National Management Standards

• Manage Activities
• Manage Resource
• Manage People
• Manage Information
• Manage Energy
• Manage Quality
• Manage Projects

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Bell Labs

• Ability to talk Initiative
• Self-Management
• Team working
• Leadership
• Fellowship
• Perspective
• Networking
• Show and Tell
• Organizational Savvy

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Ability to Take Initiative

• Self Starter, taking responsibility and
  Volunteering for additional duties

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Self Management

• Managing own output, time, learning

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Team Working

• Taking on responsibility as a member of a team

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Leadership

• Develop and Communicate Goals, channel colleagues
  towards stated goals.

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Fellowship

• Helping the leader as a lieutenant but with
  initiative of your own

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Perspective

• Ability to see yourself in the overall context of
  the organization, taking in different viewpoints

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Networking

• Gaining information and knowledge beyond your
  immediate colleagues

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Show and Tell

• Ability to market yourself and your ideas

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Organizational Savvy

• Understanding the politics and power structures,
  successfully negotiating conflicting interests

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Recommendation

• Use the national Standards to make sure you cover
  all the points to achieve as a manager, hone your
  reasoning and learning skills, then use bell Lab
  skill set to turbocharge your career.

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References

• How Bell Labs Creates Start Performers, Robert
  E. Kelly and Janet Caplan, Havard Business
  Review July 1993.
• Scientists at Bell Labs to see why some are more
  effective than others in their performance.
• http//www.management-standards.org