Have you ever noticed that your knowledge of a subject is much better and deeper if you have to teach or explain the topic to someone else? Therefore, an excellent way to increase the value you provide to your company and also improve your skill sets is to offer to deliver a “lunch and learn” session of a topic of interest to your company and yourself.
There are so many great topics you could choose from. Possibly think about something unique you learned recently that the office may not be aware of. One example might be how to use a tool like RAM Estimator for doing quick cost estimates from a RAM model. (let us know if you would like more information on this) Another example might be to dive into the AISC Code of Standard Practice and update the engineers on a couple of topics of interest. There are an endless number of topics.
By being a champion for a lunch and learn session for your company, you will increase the value you provide to your company and also improve your knowledge of the subject because it takes a much higher level of understanding to be able to give a talk on the subject. In addition, the topic you choose could be helpful for a local structural engineers’ group. Most of the Structural Engineers’ Associations are always looking for quality topics (I’m heavily involved in SEAMi and we really enjoy when local engineers give a presentation) and this might give you an opportunity to even help out more people. (If you are not familiar with the people in your SEA group, please call me and I can help you contact them)
I would love to hear how your session goes and your topic! Please e-mail me at Brian.Quinn@FindYourEngineer.com.
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