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Innovation in Improving Performance
This webinar focuses on ideas for improving the performance of individuals who work in industrial settings.
AIChE Professional Support – Career Services
Whether you are getting ready to graduate with your chemical engineering degree, you are currently unemployed, or you are looking for a new technical challenge, learn about a number of tools AIChE has designed to support you in your job search.
Effective Communication Based Leadership Skills to Lead a Voluntary Organization
Effective communication leadership skills are necessary to lead a voluntary organization. True leadership is interrelated to management skills and applicable in voluntary organization as well as other type of business organizations.
How to Shoot a Torpedo: Military/Industry Leadership Similarities and Contrasts
Effective leadership styles must be varied depending on the situation and perspective of those involved.
Emergency Response Leadership: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire!
Leadership during true acute emergency situations (fires, explosions, chemical releases, and natural disasters) goes far beyond the immediate Incident Command structure.
Leadership Lessons from Our Founding Fathers
The founding fathers demonstrated important leadership lesions during the development of the United States in the late 1700’s that should not be forgotten.
Chemical Industry Leadership Challenges
The chemical industry is faced with many challenges including geographic shifts in the location of manufacturing, rising volatile energy costs, a larger role of state-owned entities, security threats, and increasingly stringent health, safety, and
Improving Communications & Leadership Effectiveness by Leading with Questions
Mentoring, Building Tomorrow’s Leaders
Job Derailment vs. Success: Advice for New Engineers
New engineers head off to their careers after graduation, all too often without any idea of what to expect.
Staying Career Fit in Turbulent Times
In focusing on our engineering or management responsibilities it is easy to forget about managing our own careers.
The 534 Method: How to Think Innovatively and Generate New Ideas
This fast-paced and idea-filled webinar will be fun to participate in and help you think in new dimensions. The 534 Method is about how to think with even more creativity.
Gaining Commitment, Not Just Compliance: Effective Leadership Skills
There’s a big difference between a boss and a leader - as you'll discover in an eye-opening exercise that will draw on your own personal experience of when you began your career.
How to be an Expert Witness in an Adversarial Proceeding
Dr. Joseph J. Cramer will give fellow engineers insight into the nature of a trial or administrative law proceeding, and show how this type of adversarial proceeding differs from the collegial environment.
Career Strategies for Young Professionals
Gone are the days when you will work for the same company for your entire career. It now falls to you to forge your own path! What can you do early in your career to get a head start?
How the Chemical Engineer Will Shape the 21st Century
The current global economic meltdown, along with imbalances in energy ecology and equity, imply that the fundamental backbone of the global industrial world needs reinventing.
A Winning Business Assessment: The Key to Success for your Project
Scientists and engineers in chemicals and advanced materials industries are some of the most prolific inventors and innovators in all technology businesses.
Job Hunting Strategies
Searching for a job can be frustrating and time consuming. Finding the ideal job depends on your situation, geographical preferences, personality, and many other things.

