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Minority Engineer Magazine, launched in 1979, is a career- guidance and recruitment magazine offered at no charge to qualified engineering or computer-science students and professionals who are African-American, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian American. Minority Engineer presents career strategies for readers to assimilate into a diversified job marketplace.
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TIPS FOR MANAGERS
Talent management expert Dr. Curtis L. Odom shares the crucial keys necessary for effective leader ship. Odom, principal and managing partner of Prescient Strategists, LLC, a consulting firm, suggests how managers can get the most out of young talent:
•Lead From The Front: Always be accountable for what you do as a leader. Often leadership failures hit those that work for you and for your company much harder than the leader(s). Leaders need to share the pain.
•Always Be Genuine: If you approach leadership genuinely without personal artifice and never convey an “I’m better than them” mentality, then you can draw the best people to work for you. If you lead they will follow. How you lead them is what you leave behind as your legacy. It can either be something positive that propels them and your company onward or negative that saps their strength and leaves organizational weakness.
•Do What You Say:Words must be more than just wind. You can talk but then you must “do.” If you don’t do that and do it consistently then you will get the respect that you deserve, which is none. Companies can operate with leaders who aren’t respected–but it’s doubtful the organization will thrive under that type of leadership (or lack thereof). Show them you know what you’re talking about and care about what happens to them and the company and less about how you sound.
•View Your Team Members As People First: The flip side of action is engagement with the people you lead that support the action. There has to be engagement and meaningful interaction across all levels—the right balance of both leads to a more effective team and organization, which will reflect, ultimately, on the performance of the leaders.
•Encourage and Celebrate Leaderful Moments: Become the type of leader who places more importance on the individual performance and less on the title. Most important— treat yourself the same way. Don’t get puffed up because of your title or position; instead show everyone that you earned respect by who you are and what you do as opposed to what’s on your business card.
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