In this episode of the Civil Engineering Podcast, I'm going to give you three actions that you can take to network and build relationships more effectively, even if you are an introvert. Let's do it. So for this episode, I thought I'd focus on this topic that came from a question and an article that I wrote for the American Society of Civil Engineers Career and Leadership which was a civil engineer who reached out and said, can I network effectively if I'm an introvert? How can I do that? And I thought about it a little bit and the word introvert, if you look it up in the dictionary, it essentially means a shy person. And a lot of engineers or at least they become labeled as introverts because we are analytical, we are technical, we deal a lot with details. And so this can be a common question for civil engineers. And the reason that this is important is because the general kind of progression of a lot of civil engineers, especially in the private sector, maybe not so much in the public sector, is that as they progress in their career, their company expects them to start to build relationships and bring in new business and revenue for the firm. And kind of if you can't do that, it can become a barrier to advancement in your career in the private consulting world. However, what I will also say is that if you are in the public sector, building relationships is a skill that can be good wherever you work, right? If you're in the public sector, you're still dealing with other engineers and other people that you need to build relationships with. And you never know when you might leave the public sector and go into the private sector and then have to do that networking relationship and business development. So what I'd like to do in this episode is to focus on three specific actions that you can take even as an introvert to start to build relationships with people and network more effectively. And the first one is to start to build deeper relationships with people that you already know. I think sometimes what happens in terms of networking, whether you're an introvert or not, is we are fearful around it because we think about the idea of having to go out and network with people that we don't know. That's scary. I mean, anytime you do that, that's scary. That's scary when you're in kindergarten and you go into a class with new people. And it's scary when you're an experienced engineering professional who goes to a networking or professional association event, you have to go up to someone you don't know and start speaking with them or networking with them. So what I recommend that you do to warm yourself up to networking is identify contacts that you already know, but you don't get to talk to or communicate with that much. It might be your college roommate. It might be a couple of people in your local professional association chapter that you kind of know, but you'd like to get to know more. And I would start with them, call them, see if they want to grab lunch one day. If you see them at an association meeting, make it a point to go over and chat with them. By focusing on the people that you already know, it's a warmer approach. It's more comfortable for you and it will allow you to practice your networking skills. So if you really want to take action on this, make a list of five to 10 people that you know by name, you know, people that you've met a few times and you know them, but you don't really know them. And think of one thing that you can do to start to get to know them better. It might be attending a specific event you know they're going to be at. It might be calling them and just saying hello and catching up. It might be shooting them an email and asking them if they'd be interested in grabbing a cup of coffee together, you know, whatever the case, maybe reach out to those people and that will help you to warm up in terms of networking, even as an introvert. Now that's one thing that you can do. The second action that you can take and I've recommended this probably in out of 135 podcast episodes, I've probably recommended this on 30% of them. Join Toastmasters to improve your public speaking skills, because this directly correlates to your confidence, which correlates to your ability to network and build relationships. Toastmasters International, if you're not familiar with it, is a global non-profit educational organization that has clubs worldwide and the purpose of Toastmasters is to promote communication and public speaking skills. And so, most people that go to Toastmasters are going because they want to become better speakers. They may have to give a lot of presentations for work and by the way, a lot of times it is a critical component of a successful civil engineering career, whether you're giving presentations for project approvals or you're trying to get funding or you're meeting with prospective clients to pitch a proposal. So it will help you in that regard, but what Toastmasters does is it puts you up in front of a room and it makes you speak and communicate with people and doing that builds confidence.  And so by joining Toastmasters, going through the initial 10 speeches, doing the things that Toastmasters kind of forces you to do in a positive way in a positive supportive atmosphere, it will help you tremendously to be able to network and build more relationships. And the thing about Toastmasters that makes it work is really two things. One is accountability. They give you a book with 10 speeches. We like that as engineers. We've got a checklist that we can go through. Let's get my speeches done. Your first speech is like an introductory speech about yourself for a couple of minutes. But the second thing that makes Toastmasters powerful is that it's a supportive atmosphere. All of the people in the room also are working on improving their public speaking skills. So it feels safe. It feels like, you know, he or she sitting down there is in the same position as me. They're not professional speakers. And so I can't recommend Toastmasters enough. All of the civil engineers that I recommended joined it. And those that did join it, they have seen big progressions in their career because of their activity in Toastmasters. And the third action that you can take, if you really want to build those networking skills as an introvert is to utilize predetermined conversation starters when you go to networking events. I know this sounds like a little over the top, but it's really not. Just take a piece of paper, sketch out five to 10 conversation starter questions, right? Like, oh, you know, tell me about your current job position or how did you get to the company you worked for? Or how long have you been a member of this society and what are some of the positions you've held, right? Make a list of questions that you can use and go over them on the car right there, you know, the day before. And by doing that, it's going to put you again at ease. It's going to give you some more confidence. And it's going to give you the kind of the have those words at the forefront of your mind. So when you get into the conversation, instead of locking up, freezing, going into your nervous, shy shell, you'll have things on the tip of your tongue that you can say to start the conversations. Because really, at the end of the day, conversations are really what drives networking, just having conversations. However, if you don't know how to start those conversations, if you can't get the ball rolling, then it will be difficult for you to calm down in the moment and have that back and forth flow. And that's the one thing just to remember. Overall, is you just really want to consider networking as building relationships. That's what I tell all engineers, because when you think of networking as a complex, intricate thing, I have to go places, I have to meet people, I have to use LinkedIn a whole bunch. No, just focus on building relationships. If you do that, you will become a successful networker. And you will be just you will yield so many opportunities from network that you build because you took the time and invested in it. So with that, I hope that you find these to be helpful. Again, the three steps for building your relationships as an introvert is one, start with people you know, connect with them, deepen those relationships will allow you to use your skills and improve them. Number two, join Toastmasters International, there's probably a group in your town, maybe even in the building that your company is in and some of you may have a chapter within your company. Again, that's Toastmasters International. And the third one is, and this one is, I know something that maybe over the top, you may not be thinking that far ahead, but you should develop a couple of conversation starters that you can use at your next networking event. With that, I hope that you found these helpful. I hope you enjoy the Civil Engineering Podcast here on YouTube. I asked for you to subscribe to our channel because we put these podcasts out in our Engineering Manager 8020 Shorts videos on a regular basis. Until next time, I hope you continue to engineer your own success. I hope you enjoyed this episode of the Civil Engineering Podcast on YouTube produced by the Engineering Management Institute. We're always looking for new ways to help engineers become effective managers and leaders. 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Hi everyone happy new release day happy flawless day on a Wednesday 2019 Panini flawless football is here Jason flew through six cases of this and Hopefully I'll be here to take care of the rest here is pick your team number seven ladies and gentlemen big. Thanks, too Well, there's the case right there big. Thanks to all of these folks For getting into the action There it is two box pick your team number seventh on the eighth only a few teams number blocked here Not sure who got last spot mojo Let's find out. I think it was Justin gutting pick your team seven Dallas Cowboys and Bengals There you go. You got the last spot mojo star is next to your name Thank you, and here are the results of the number block which already uploaded It's in a separate video There you go, and here is the case Flawless was the case that they gave me there it is pop this baby open Gold briefcases this year. There it is. There they are packed full of hits nice, let's slide Slide one in the background over here Don't take care of that in a moment Here's this one No, Calvin doesn't like the Briefcase color this year. I like it. It's like a it's like a Hall of Fame Hall of Fame gold jacket None Mike tower none yet. What should we set that over under it? All right, so let's do the Box in the middle first. All right, so we're going by the the The checklist for the blockchain. Although this should be pretty obvious Blockchain patch autographs emerald Carson Wentz eagles emerald Is that out of five? The base is the regular ones out of ten It's out of two Where are the I don't see the parallels on here, but I'll go to whatever Eagles Scott Grossman out of fives and under get the All aboard the big hit express whoop whoop Nice one for the fly eagles fly There you go, man look that up if you want to get more information on it All right. Yeah, Scott Grossman. It's like I still don't understand blockchain, but I'm happy You're on the board here. Here's the about panini blockchain they've got a lot of They've got like a dozen or so bullet points on what it's all about so read all about it ladies and gentlemen Maybe I'll read it later tonight All right first we got Mark Clayton 7 out of 25 Old Dolphins relic going to Andrew lotter who has Miami We got 10 out of 10 DK Metcalf Tyler Lockett Dual relic for the Hawks of the sea Brian s Hawks of the sea 7 out of 10 nice patch autograph Mike Williams. That's a catch Four color patch and autograph for the bolts that goes to Eric s And the Los Angeles Chargers I kind of I like this window right here. This is star star swatch. I get it 14 out of 20 star swatch Cooper cup Justin gutting with the Los Angeles Rams The LA team's hitting a back-to-back We've got TJ Hawkinson Steve Locke Lyons 13 out of 15 That's a catch as well. I'll give that a catch We got a five out of five pro bowl autograph Derek Carr nice For my Raiders, who's got my Raiders William Smith?  All right Let's see Let's do the gems on the left and right first on the left side We got Julian Edelman sapphire 10 out of 10 It's kind of hard to catch the blue of the sapphire in there, but it's blue. Trust me that goes to The Patriots Jeremy Tillman with the Pats on the other side is a three out of five emerald Jacobi reset nice one for the Colts That'll be for William Clayton all aboard And The diamond guarantee agreement and they're naturally mined not lab grown All right, and in the middle Oh nice Peyton Manning Broncos edition going to Rebecca Maloney Honored ink one out of ten the first one ever made nice. I like Peyton Manning not Broncos Peyton Manning as a Raiders fan But in general, but wait, there's more We've got another briefcase to do Pick a team eight coming up right after this Good luck. I know Ryan Ryan roughs like you might need a new bell. I know There's been a lot there's gonna be a lot I may have to switch to the wooden train whistle if my voice doesn't hold up With all the train whistles alright blockchain Dion Sanders neon Dion Sanders card number 14 So let's look up Dion Sanders card 14 Blockchain greats card 14 Dion Sanders out of 10 Atlanta Falcons edition That goes to Matt Johnston and here I'll drop the checklist for everybody too so you can look that up It says greats 1-4 Dion Sanders dash Atlanta Falcons to 10 ATL Matt Johnston congrats and the hits we got rookie showcase quad One out two out of ten that is Benny Snell jr. Michael Galucci and his Steelers There you go. No tears for Logan's niece Because we got a 15 out of 15 Aaron Rodgers Jordy Nelson dual relic Packers on the board Logan Colliser with that Rogers there it is. It's a good tandem there We got Ed McCaffrey 14 out of 25 Broncos Rebecca Maloney another Bronco.  There it is 12 out of 15 Pats Jeremy Tillman with the Patriots Got a nice Miles Sanders coming up for Scott Grossman and the Fly Eagles Fly rookie shadow signatures Six out of 15 the shadow knows guys remember the shadow ladies and gentlemen guys remember listening to the old wireless The old old old episodes of the shadow Two out of 15 Derek Brooks Derek Brooks, that's a nice patch too for the who's got the bucks Tim Thorsett with the Buccaneers two out of 15 Yeah, Bucs uniforms look great in the window there. You see like the new ones too Or the new ones are kind of like the old ones though Nice, that's a good-looking one Tim And we've got greats autograph two out of three mean Joe Green For steel curtain, that's Michael Glucci and the Steelers big Steelers fan I'm sure he's a big Joe Green fan He's got a great a football life episode Joe Green does and I learned That mean Joe Green not that mean really nice guy. Oh Off the field really nice guy two out of three. There you go Michael All aboard the big hit express Let's see, I don't want to pull the auto first Let's get the gems on the left and right sometimes they're in the middle gems on the left and right first gem Parker With the Cardinals you got the Ruby David Johnson 11 out of 20. I wish I could catch the The color in the gems a little bit better here with our lighting, but They do look nice. They look nice in person on the right side.  You can see some stitching right there 19 out of 20 on that one. That's for Dijort and the Washington Redskins. Oh It says gloves right up there. Duh signature gloves There was one that Jason pulled where we weren't sure didn't say gloves. We thought it might be Piece sticker on the helmet. There you have it ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com really appreciate it everybody getting into the action. There's gonna there's plenty more in the store Jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'm sure we'll break a ton more tonight. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye


so another episode of basley quick one today i want to show you movement to connect four two three five six chord progression okay hope you're ready for this one so this movement is simple okay this movement is simple you need to learn how to connect from this chord progression to the next chord progression you're going and to achieve this to be honest with you must know your fretboard you must know the notes on your fretboard you know the breadboard is just like your apartment you know where your toilet is you know where your bedroom is you know where your wardrobe is you know and so on and so forth just you know all the things you know in your apartment the same way you need to know where your notes are on the fretboard okay so if my notes is this if my key is this the key of the song is already on f so this is my key f and this is my one now this is not the only place i have my one i have my one here i have my one here i have my one here i have my one here i have my one here you know so i can easily connect from f here to f here to my middle f first f here that i have on my e string and i can easily connect to my f i have on my a string okay you need to just know your notes on the fretboard you need to know how to connect so if you're playing to a song this is not the only place your three is your third is you have your third here so sometimes if i'm playing i'm on my one if i'm going to my three sometimes i ignore the open three i have and i come to this three here okay when i was playing to that song from here i connect my next chord progression is four i know my four is here but i choose to play this four because of the movement i want to play you can't do this movement if you are not open to the notes on your fretboard on your bass guitar if you are not open to the notes on your bass guitar you can't take this movement you must study your fretboard okay do exercises exercises that will help you study your fretboard anything you're practicing here try to practice it in the middle try to practice it up here so if i have my f here i'm playing this is my f again okay so just learn how to connect your skill your major skill you know learn how to connect learn how to practice your skill this way don't just stay here and you're just playing it you will get used to the notes there only okay so that is it now the song progression key of the song is an f and the song progression is one four then you go to two after your two you're going to five after your five you're going to three three to six six to two again then two to five then five to your one that is it that is the song now what i did from one connecting to my four was this you know after my one i'm going to four that's the nice chord progression so from my one i did this i didn't play this four i took some move okay to my four now also note this that you don't just take some move you don't just pick notes and just play okay you need to try to create notes that matches that chord progression you're going that's another thing that's another work okay you don't just choose note and say okay i'm going to this place and let me just play anything no choice of note matters you know to that chord progression you're going so i decide to do this it's not as if there are no other movements or passing notes that i will play to connect to the four chord it's not as if there are no other you understand but i choose to do just this so your choice of note matters you can simply do this if you're going to your four chord mm okay i played one one four you can simply do that so that was what i did i played my one flat two two then i played the six then i played the one then the one again then i dropped to the four that was it going to my two because after my four is my two the chord progression might i did go into my two i did this you hear that dynamic there hammer and pull off that is it now the movement started from the three then four hammer on the four and pull off then i played the one then i played the six then i played the two then five six that's it now the next movement i did now you need to understand you need to understand number system okay you need to understand your number system okay your dough is still your one your re is your two your three is your me your four is your five your so your five is your so okay your lie is your six and your is your seven then your one you need to understand number system so music has gone beyond dough your five go to saw you know nobody will understand what you're saying on stage people will understand what you're saying on stage so it's good to use the number sign you know it helps the next chord progression they play there is after your two you're going to five that's the next chord progression so on the five i did that's a simple walk down to five that's a simple walk down to five so i started from one two five six two five one two five six two five and i drop on my five the techniques there hammer on hammer on okay that was it now after the five they are going to three the three chord that is the next chord progression they went okay from your one to four two five then three so the next chord progression is three so on the three i did this movement is commonly used on the three chord anytime any day on any song it will work this movement okay five six five four three now that was the movement i did on the three but i didn't end there then i did i still went to the three because you know why i still have my time that was what i did so five six five four three then one five one five four three and i slide to the third to the three one five four three that's it because i still have time on enama they are meant to just be on that three the low three here on the east string i will just be waiting until they are going to six okay five six five four three one five four three then from the three you know after the three chord they are going to the sixth chord now from the three the movement i did on the three three chord i'll try as much as possible to link it to the sixth chord which is my next chord progression on that song okay so i did this yeah that was what i did what i did on the sixth chord i did five flat six six then i climbed down this is my three if this is my three this is my one seven six i started from the five don't get confused this is my one one one two three four five okay so i started from my five five flat six six then i climbed to three then i climbed to one then seven six then i did six three flat seven six six three flat seven six the six again so from the six they went back to the two chord again then on the two chord i did a movement again okay then i drop on the five five is the last chord then we end okay let me take everything again from the top don't forget the key of the song is on f so so guys hope you got one or two things from this movement this movement can walk on any song you're playing to yes just be creative about the moves okay if you're 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So these two teams, I realize we're not in June yet. I'll start with Eric as he's kind of the negative guy here. Are you a believer? I don't, Frank's going to say. I'm a realistic guy. Oh, OK. There you go. That's what I meant. Are you a believer of the Phillies or the Braves still being there at the end of the year at the top of this division? No, I still, I like the Nationals. And the Braves, they're a nice story right now. And they're fun to watch. There's a lot of energy. I just don't think they sustain the offense throughout the rest of the year. The starting pitching while on paper, it's pretty good. And they've got some decent pieces in the bullpen. I think when you get to August, and if they're still around then, and these games mean something, and then they realize, wow, we're playing for the lack of veteran presence may come back to get them. And Philly, I mean, you know. And they released Jose Batista, which you question. The Braves, I don't understand. You in first place, everything's going well. You release a veteran who can provide protection for a guy like Freddie Freeman. It doesn't make any sense to me. Yes, 35 at bats, a slow, low batten average. He's a veteran. He missed all the spring training, but he still provided a couple of home runs, a couple of doubles. I would have kept Batista on that team just because you need a little veteran presence sometime. When it's not broken, don't try to fix it. When you're in first place, they've been shut out two out of the last three days. Yeah, we just mentioned, yeah. Without him being back in that lineup. Can I say something about the Braves? Can I talk about the Braves? The Braves are in a stretch right now, 14 games. They've got three with the Phillies. Then they play the Red Sox. Then they play the Mets, and then four with the Nationals. So these next 14 games, we'll see what happens in two weeks when we're doing this show. If we're still talking about the Braves and how fun they are. All right, you talked about their pitching. What about the Phillies' pitching? Certainly a better starting rotation. And Aaron Ola has emerged as an ace. Pavetta has come on as we just showed. You gotta like it. You know, they got three guys there that can really pitch. Led by Arietta, who's been through all the wars, World Series champion. But I really liked their offense. These guys go up there to swing it. They hustle. They play the game the right way. I'm liking the way things are turning up in Philadelphia. Yeah, look at Philadelphia went into this season with a, we can compete. And we might be able to make some noise. And that was evident by the signing of Arietta. Also Santana, some pieces in the bullpen. So they aren't looking to three, four years down the road. They're saying, hey, look at, we've got the pieces for right now. Yeah, maybe the Nationals aren't gonna run away. Who was that kid at a bullpen? Came in, thrown about 99. Yeah. Was Dominguez? Sir Anthony. Sir Anthony Dominguez. Sir Anthony Masterson. Gabe Kapler, the rookie manager. People thought he'd be shuffling the lineup throughout. He kind of settled at least recently on a steady lineup. And obviously it's been productive. Well, the players make his decisions. By the way that they're going out and performing.  They play hard. And that's the one thing that Gabe, he- Always did. Yeah, you gotta play hard. The fundamentals. You've got to play hard. So they win the first of three in that NL East matchup. But maybe the National League West isn't as good as we thought it was overall at the start of the year. And I know you thought, you're allowed to change your position on this. The Dodgers were a wild card team. No, no, no, no. Are you ready to say now? Oh, no, no, no. They're a division winner. They were a division winner. Yeah, then. And I went to wild card when Seager went down. OK. And then now I'm saying, look at, I don't, I think they're going to the playoffs. The only way anybody goes to the playoffs in from the National League West, got to win the game. One team. Oh, for real. I don't think there's going to be multiple. With Seager down, I don't, it's not like past years where they have all the firepower coming back in. And they just take it. They're not hitting home runs this year. They're not. And then just look at in the last couple of games that they've won, in the last three games that they've won, they've hit a number of home runs, a home run again tonight. And that's where they're going to have to get. I mean, the slugging, Bellinger hasn't got hot yet. I just think that division is very average at best. And that's what's allowed them to stay in this thing and not get blown out right out of the shoot. I still think that they're going to get to the playoffs. I do believe that they'll win the division, just because Arizona right now down in Colorado, I'm not really seeing it. But Arizona, remember, they're going to get Robbie Rayback at some point. And Pollock. And Pollock. So you got to get them while they're down right now. What do you think? I know you, oh my God, I know where we're going. It's still early. We're not even in June yet. You got the Giants still lurking. You got the Dodgers, if they can get healthy, they find themselves back in the playoffs. I'm not giving up on the Giants or the Dodgers. I think both of those teams could slide back in there. But Arizona's got their work cut out right now. The biggest key for them right now is Goldschmidt. He is not swinging at all. They will not get to the playoffs. He's not having a decent season. That's their electric bat. This guy can flat out hit one of the best hitter in baseball. They got to get him going. And four teams within four and a half games at the top spot of the National League West. And Kershaw simulated games going to throw again. And they expect he'll be back within a week early June. So encouraging that the Dodgers are making up ground without him.


When you take shortcuts, you get cut short. It's an interesting thing to think about, but I think a lot of entrepreneurs, specifically young entrepreneurs, think, okay, I'm gonna become a 100 millionaire in three years. And while certainly that can happen, it's very rare. More often is the chance that someone dedicates seven to 10 years, if not more of their life, to finding that success. Yeah, and I've been doing this for a while, Diego. And I think something that we try to do is we romanticize the early successes and we discount the people that have put in the work and have been doing it for a while.