Tag: Ask Anthony

Happy New Year. While personally I don’t believe that January 1st offers any more opportunity than the other 364 days of the year, it does usually give us some time when we can reflect on the past year and plan for the new one. I myself go through an intensive strategic planning process each year during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. I...

If you’re a civil engineer like I am, you’ve probably heard of ASCE’s Raise the Bar. Whether you stumbled across it online, heard about it at a conference, or read about it in a newsletter, do you understand it? I get a lot of questions from civil engineers about Raise the Bar, specifically what it means and how it is intended to help civil engineers. That’s...

Lack of confidence is one of the biggest inhibitors of professional development and overall success for civil engineering professionals. But there are positive steps you can take.

Before I give you the advice I want to share in this post, let me qualify it for you. The strategy I’m going to share is not something I came up with myself, but I have had success using it. Between hosting the the Civil Engineering Podcast and working on the book I’m writing for ASCE on how to become a seller-doer, I have talked...

Networking is a valuable career tool. But it can be scary too. Here's how to overcome that fear of networking.

This week, my three kids are each in different camps again, which will make for scattered mornings (and a crazy week overall). It’s easier to stomach now, though, because I know it is all coming to an end soon. In about a week, all three of them will be back in school, which means we’ll all be back to a regular routine. I remember being...

So, you are signed up for an upcoming civil engineering conference, and now it’s time to start putting together a plan to ensure that you get the most out of the event. I know what you are thinking. A plan? Seriously? I am busy enough as it is with my projects, I don’t have time to plan ahead for a conference. Well, I’m here to urge...

Eighty percent of your career success as a civil engineer comes from 20 percent of your efforts.

Seven things you can do to focus your career on a specific civil engineering niche.

This is a question I struggled with myself when I started out as a young civil engineer working in the field of land development. When you work in land development, there are many different aspects to a project, so I ended up learning enough about each one of them to ensure successful project completions. However, looking back, I wish I’d taken a different approach. I...