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Engineers are known to dedicate themselves towards the development, design, and implementation of technology employed in a wide array of industries.

As managers of complex processes, their job descriptions lay a high emphasis on performance, and so, no matter how talented they are or what they have accomplished, there are certain phrases that instantly define the way people see them. These phrases are not shocking slips of the tongue, off-color jokes, or politically incorrect faux pas. They are phrases that carry special power and smart engineering technologists avoid them as they know that they are loaded with negative implications and could undermine their careers, painting them incompetent and unconfident.

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“I’ll try.”

The word ‘try’ should not be part of any smart person’s vocabulary as it not only sounds tentative and indefinite, it suggests a lack confidence in your ability to execute tasks assigned.

 

As an engineering technologist, you need to take full ownership of your abilities. If you are trapped in a situation where you necessarily have to do something, either commit yourself fully to doing it or offer an alternative solution, but do not suggest that you will “try”. Saying you would ‘try’ will most often projects you as lazy, unstable or unreliable.

“This may be a silly idea / I’m going to ask a stupid question.”

Starting a presentation or stating a suggestion with the phrase “This may be a silly idea” or “ I’m going to ask a stupid question” is akin shooting yourself in the foot.

 

How you present yourself or ideas matter as you are the one who feeds your audience whatever perception they eventually have of you. The phrases are overly passive and most times, they instantly erode your credibility so much that even if you follow it up with a great idea, it might not fly as it should as the people may have lost confidence in you. It is important to be much more confident in yourself and be very assertive.

 

“This will only take a minute.”

Should anything technically ever really just take a minute? Most people use the phrase “This will only take a minute” absentmindedly, without necessarily considering the negative impact it has on us with regards to the people we are uttering it to.

 

Expressing that something only takes a minute undermines your skills and gives the impression that you are hasty and tend to rush through tasks. In some cases, it can even project you as being inordinately cocky.

 

So, unless you are literally going to complete the task in 60 seconds, use a much more tactical phrase like: “it won’t take long”, however do not give the impression that the task can be completed any sooner than it would actually take to be finished.

 

“This is the way it has always been done.”

Gone are the times when people preferred the status quo, technology-fueled change is happening so fast that even a three-month-old process can be regarded obsolete. An engineering technician requesting that a process be adopted when there are possibly newer and better options, based on the fact that “this is the way it’s always been done” , suggests that they are either very lazy, resistant to change or not brilliant.

 

An as engineering technologists, it is important to have an open mind and one of key ways to letting people around you know that you do is by avoiding phrases such as “This is the way it has always been done”

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