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SWE's Career Insights Podcast Series
SWE's Career Insights Podcasts bring SWE to you in a portable and convenient audio format.
Download these podcasts to enjoy the convenience of listening to career advancement advice and tips, discussions on work/life balance, and other professional and personal development topics on your own time. Check back often as we build our audio library (or subscribe below), grab your computer or portable digital music player, and get the info you need to succeed.
Interview with Cecilia Rose on “Have you Taken Out a Career Insurance Policy? – Do You Know What You Need to Help You Survive & Thrive In Your Career as You Navigate the New Market Place?” |
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| A New Market Place requires new skills, enhancing the ones you already have or brushing off your rusty mindsets. What career path will you take? Are you ready to go in, up or out of your current organization? Are you managing your career or allowing others to manage it for you? Do you have an on-boarding plan and an exit plan? Without those two things who knows where you may end up in your career but not likely where you thought you would. | |
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Time: 9:30min |
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Interview with Beth Sears on "The Three deadly sins of Interpersonal communication" |
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| Most people underestimate the problems caused by poor communication skills. In a workplace or your personal relationships, the primary role of communication becomes a foundational skill for virtually every activity. Yet, just because you transmit a message it does not mean that the intended message is the message received. In fact, survey most organizations and poor communication will surface as a major issue and it costs businesses millions. Without both information as well as understanding, accurate communication does not occur. This seminar will create an awareness of problems which cause miscommunication and give the participants skills to dramatically improve their ability to get their message across, and they will learn skills they can incorporate into their communication to improve all relationships. | |
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Time: 6:43min |
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Interview with Dr. Michael Seitchik on "The Six Critical Factors of Strategic Thinking" and "Safe Risk: Is this an Oxymoron" |
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| Dr. Michael Seitchik will be presenting webinars in April and June. In April, Dr. Seitchik will discuss strategic thinking. In June, he will discuss safe risk. Dr. Michael Seitchik is President of Michael Seitchik LLC and has over 20 years experience in designing and delivering customized executive education programs to executives at major corporations in a wide variety of industries around the world. His experience includes 9 years as the Director of Program Development at the Wharton School where he ran all customized and open enrollment programs. At Wharton, his program Managing with Ambiguous Authority was cited by BusinessWeek as one of the three most innovative executive education programs in the world. | |
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Time: 11:04min |
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Interview with Dr. Michelle Callahan on "Strategies for Achieving Successful Work Life Balance" and "Dealing with Bullies at Work." |
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| Dr. Michelle Callahan discusses the two webinars she will be presenting in February and March. In February, Dr. Callahan will discuss achieving work life balance, and in early March, Michelle will talk about dealing with bullies at work. Dr. Michelle R. Callahan, creator of 360° STRATEGIES™, is an executive coach, management consultant, psychologist, and author. Dr. Michelle delivers strategic human resources and organizational development consulting business solutions. | |
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Time: 12:15min |
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Interview with Samantha Parent Walravens on "Motherhood, Career and the Work-Life Juggle" |
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| Samantha Walravens discusses the webinar she will presenting in February on working moms and careers. Samantha Walravens is an award-winning journalist, writer and mother of four children. Her new book, Torn: True Stories of Kids, Career and the Conflict of Modern Motherhood, was chosen by the New York Times as the first pick for its new Motherlode online book club, and reached #1 on Amazon.com for books in the Motherhood category. | |
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Time: 8:49 min |
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Interview with Tara Sophia Mohr on "Silencing your Inner Critic" and "Finding your Right Work" |
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| Tara Sophia Mohr is an expert on women's leadership and wellbeing. With an MBA from Stanford University, her undergraduate degree from Yale University, and professional certification as a coach, Tara takes a unique approach that blends inner work with practical skills training. Tara has a deep commitment to supporting women's professional success. | |
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Time: 16:15 min |
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Interview with WE11 Keynote Natalie Givans |
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| Natalie Givans, Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, has learned a lot along the journey that has taken her from a young girl with dreams of becoming an astronaut to a senior leader of a nearly century old consulting firm tackling such pressing challenges as protecting the homeland, combating global terrorism, and improving cybersecurity. Solving clients' most complex problems is rewarding, but meeting the goals she sets for herself is also a priority. Natalie made a conscious decision early on to make sure fulfillment and meaning drove her success instead of the other way around. | |
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Time: 9:26 min |
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Interview with Dr. Michael Seitchik on Building Trust, Cooperation, and Alignment in Teams |
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| Teams often have trouble implementing their goals or hitting their targets because of a lack of trust, cooperation and alignment. Whether it is an executive team or a cross-functional project team, most teams struggle with the same issues. This workshop will help participants: think about what is the right type of team they need to best meet their goals; understand that team effectiveness and productivity are best improved if team members work together on discussing and solving real business issues; recognize that team dynamics are not that "mysterious" once you know what to look for; utilize a set of skills and tools that we can change the way people run their meetings; develop strategies to build consensus in a relatively short period of time. | |
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Time: 11:6 min |
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Interview with Dr. Casazza and Dr. Silverman on Becoming a Change Leader |
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| Dr. Casazza and Dr. Silverman discuss how leaders can use their emotional intelligence to overcome resistance, manage risk, craft an effective message, provide motivators and create an ongoing system of communication. | |
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Time: 11:43 min |
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Interview with Terra Winston and Kali Raoul on the Truth about Business Success |
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| You work hard. You consistently deliver against your goals. You do everything that the company asks. A fast ascent up the corporate ladder is almost guaranteed, right? Unfortunately, in today's competitive business environment strong performance is not enough to make you stand out. The higher that you move in any organization, the more important the personal side of business becomes to your career and even the bottom line. | |
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Time: 13:42 min |
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Interview with Alaina Levine on Making a Mid-Career Change |
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| Changing course in the middle of your career may be a bit scary, but it can also be strategic. Whether you are shifting employers, moving into management, taking on new tasks, relocating to a new city, or changing careers altogether, there are a number of steps you can take to ensure that you achieve your goals in an efficient and satisfactory manner. | |
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Time: 16:36 min |
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Interview with Tricia Berry and Danielle Forget on Engineering Your Career |
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| The statistics show that workers between the ages of 18 and 38 change jobs an average of 10 times. Whether you are changing positions within your current organization or changing employers every 2 years, you need to engineer your own career path. Knowledge about yourself and your workplace leads to career empowerment. And this empowerment is what ultimately offers you the freedom to do or be whatever you want in life on your own terms. Engineer your career to ensure your career path is the one you want to be on. | |
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Time: 13:51 min |
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Interview with Katherine Mayer on Making Risk a Winning Strategy |
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| Building a track record of being a self-challenger and risk taker is critical to becoming an effective leader. However, taking risks can be a challenge – especially for women. According to the current research on gender and leadership, women tend to take more of a perfectionist and relationship oriented approach to leadership. This seminar teaches women to strive for excellence in a comfortable and enjoyable manner as evidenced by the successful women who demonstrated a Collaborative Competitive™ approach to leadership. | |
| Time: 11:36 min Size: 5.31 MB Click to Download MP3 |
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Interview with Katie Snapp and Carol Wight on the Being an Intuitive Leader |
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| Katie and Carol discuss some of the fundamental ways that the genders are not alike and how that impacts you as a woman in leadership within a male-dominated environment. | |
| Time: 9:45 min Size: 4.46 MB Click to Download MP3 |
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Interview with Cecilia Rose on Real Leadership |
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| Real leaders know their strengths and weaknesses. Waking to who you are begins by extending your awareness: your gut instincts, your thoughts and feelings, and – ultimately – who you are beyond those thoughts, emotions, associations, and perceptions. The only way to find out who you are often begins with finding out who you are not. | |
| Time: 11:37 min Size: 5.32 MB Click to Download MP3 |
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Inspire the Next Generation of Engineering with Design Squad (An Interview with Natalie Hebshie) |
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| Natalie Hebshie is an outreach coordinator at WGBH Educational Foundation. She builds awareness for, provides training around, and encourages use of WGBH series' resources. She has facilitated workshops around media literacy and educational children's programming at WGBH for the past seven years. | |
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Introverted Leader: How to Build on Your Quiet Strength (An Interview with Jennifer Kahnweiler) |
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| Jennifer is a speaker, executive coach, and author of The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength. Founder and president of AboutYOU, Inc., an Atlanta-based leadership consultancy, she is a frequent source for national media and a former workplace advice columnist forAARP, SHRM, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Jennifer was selected as a featured work/life expert for the TBS television show Movie and a Makeover and also received the highest honor from the National Career Development Association. Her clients include Capital One, Turner, GE, the American Management Association, and the Coca-Cola Company. Jennifer holds a Ph.D. in counseling and organizational development, and specializes in developing and coaching introverted leaders. | |
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Collaborative Competition: The New Approach to Thrive in a Global Economy (An Interview with Kathryn Mayer) |
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| Kathryn founded KC Mayer Consulting, Inc. in 2003 to provide sophisticated and customized leadership development solutions for Fortune 100 to 1000 companies to drive their efforts to attract, develop and retain emerging and high potential business leaders. KC Mayer Consulting works with clients in the United States and Europe in competitive industries ranging from investment banking to pharmaceutical, with a special emphasis on women in the workplace and diversity issues. | |
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2009 Keynote Speaker: Interview with Darlene Solomon |
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| As the head of technology for a world-leading industrial research center, Darlene Solomon knows what it takes to stay at the forefront of technology. In her role as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President for Agilent Laboratories, the 25-year veteran is responsible for developing the company's long-term technology strategy and oversees its research and development activities. At the WE09 Conference, Solomon addressed the importance of women working together and staying on the leading edge of innovation in order to advance the world of technology. | |
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Impact of Title IX on STEM |
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| We spoke to Cathy Pieronek about the impact of Title IX on women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, also known as STEM. Cathy is the Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. She is also SWE's Title IX lead, chair of the Government Relations and Public Policy Committee and president of the Chicago Regional Section. | |
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Time: 9:52 min |
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Your First 90 Days |
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| Starting a new job can pose a number of challenges as well as significant opportunities that can impact your long-term role within an organization. Recently we spoke with Heidi Holden, manager of employee sourcing at FM Global, about successful strategies one should use during their first 90 days. | |
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Time: 4:47 min |
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A New Look at Hostile Workplaces from the Winter 2009 issue of SWE Magazine 03/04/2009 Podcast |
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| A word of advice to ambitious, intelligent, and savvy female engineers: Look closely at your prospective culture, because cultures that tolerate bullies can make your life miserable. Psychologists and researchers agree there's often not much that can be done in a company whose leaders are bullies -- except to play nice or ferret out a powerful, healthy supporter who can change the system. | |
| Time: 11:02 min Size: 10 MB Click to Download MP3 |
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Mentoring: Paying It Forward from the Winter 2009 issue of SWE Magazine |
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| There is nothing as rewarding as seeing someone you have mentored, coached, or counseled move along their career path to where they want to be. | |
| Time: 5:16 min Size: 3 MB Click to Download MP3 |
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