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If careers in engineering and job security are on your mind, then it is time to hone your Leadership, Teamwork and Change Management skills. These are the talents that 100 Engineering executives identified as important to keep in - house.
Leadership principals, teams and teamwork, and understanding the human aspects of change can be taught and developed through guided learning. Leading engineers have recognized the extreme importance of Leadership, Managing Change and Teamwork as an important complimentary performance skill to engineers learning to design, construct, operate, maintain and decommission engineering systems of all types (The American Society of Civil Engineers, Body of Knowledge: The Engineer of the 21st Century; National Academy of Engineering, The Engineer of 2020, 2004)
Leadership, teamwork and managing change in an Engineering organization are increasingly important to career advancement. The higher you go in engineering the more you need to demonstrate managing change, teamwork and leadership capacities.
Colleges of Engineering are seeing this trend as well. More engineering students from all Departments in Colleges of Engineering are taking these "soft skill" courses as part of their formal technical education. Even seasoned professional engineers are now participating in in-house training programs to polish their capacities to get things accomplished in companies and achieve excellence in their performance.