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  2. Fast-Tracking Your Career: Soft Skills for Engineers
  3. Part One: Communications
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Fast-Tracking Your Career: Soft Skills for Engineers

All 50 numbered rules from Bill Chou's book on soft skills for engineering and IT professionals, one card each, plus a matching game that pairs each rule with a story Chou tells about it.

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Part One: Communications

The seven rules of Chapter 1 on getting your point across: short answers you have ready, strong openings, a few diagrams, plain words and humor.

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Flashcards: 7
Pair match: 7
Part One: Communications – Flashcards
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Card #1

Communications Smart, Rule 1: Being always ready for elevator pitches and speeches

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Communications Smart, Rule 2: Mastering a presentation by mastering the onset

Card #3

Communications Smart, Rule 3: Using three diagrams to simplify complexity

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Part One: Communications – Pair match
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A student caddying at a golf club mentions a market trend to the old man he carries clubs for, who turns out to run a Wall Street firm and offers him an internship the next day↔Being always ready for elevator pitches and speeches
A famous engineer listens to the first few minutes of each seminar, shuts his eyes until question time, then asks a sharp question built on what the speaker said at the start↔Mastering a presentation by mastering the onset
The IRS keeps getting grilled by Congress over its IT overhaul until its new overseer demands one picture of the current system, one of the final system and one of the path between them↔Using three diagrams to simplify complexity
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