Work More Effectively With Others
Doug Hissong
Learn ways to improve your interpersonal and communication skills so that you can work more effectively with others, and increase your own productivity and effectiveness.
Management and Supervisory
Adopt Integrated Product Teams for Process Development
Jeffrey Mueller, Kelly Seheult , Larry Scotchie
The cross-functional IPT approach can be combined with a stage-gate framework and six sigma techniques to improve the effectiveness of process development efforts.
Preparing Invention Disclosures
William D. Hall
The patent process can be a costly journey down a long and winding road. An invention disclosure serves as a roadmap for preparing the patent application and ultimately obtaining a valid, enforceable patent.
Increasing Employee Productivity
Charles Gillard
Maximize workplace efficiency via implementation of best practices using workflow modeling and automation.
Be a Better Bargainer
Robert W. Bly
Follow these pointers to succeed in win-win negotiations.
Recruit for Retention
Partick Ropella
The most successful employee-retention programs begin with recruiting and hiring the individual who best matches the position and best fits into the company's culture.
Boost Your Group’s Performance
Charles Gillard
Working with employees to define “doing a good job” can improve organizational performance as well as employee satisfaction.
Closing the Gap Between Engineers and Management
George Buckbee, P.E.
Work-style and communication differences often result in a disconnect between managers and engineers. Bridging this culture gap will allow managers to make better business decisions and bring engineers the understanding and recognition they deserve.
Succeed in Business in Latin America
Linda Grobovsky, Lionel F. Laroche
Thorough preparation can mean the difference between success and disaster.
4 Steps to Managing Complex Development Programs
James B. Ayers
Construct a raodmap approach for successful completion of a complex project.
Shaping a New Role for the Operator
Ian Nimmo, Peter Bullemer, Sandra Foreman
In the future, operating teams may proactively manage their plants to maximize safety and minimize environmental impact, while pushing the processes to their optimal limits. Here's how to achieve the necessary paradigm shift by giving operators an...
Prepare a Top-Notch Scope of Work
Stephen W. Maas
This comprehensive overview of what needs to go into a well-defined scope of work will be useful to chemical engineers who are new to project engineering and project management.
Making the Team: Teams, Teamwork, and Teambuilding
Eldon R. Larsen
A project team is more than a group of talented professionals. It is an interdependent unit, empowered with understanding, accountabilities and mutual support that permit it to achieve goals — both organizational and personal — more efficiently and...
How to do an Internal FDA Audit
Gavin Sinclair
Meeting FDA regulations is not optional. The costs are high for any company that does not act responsibly to ensure that all additives are meet the required regulations.
Caught in the Act
Jody Urquhart
To acknowledge people in a meaningful way, catch them doing good things and recognize their efforts.
Whistleblowing - Is it Always Obligatory?
Edmund G. Seebauer
Both interior and exterior consequences should be considered when deciding whether to report a breach of ethics.
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