Construction Middle East: Arabian Civil Engineers by GineersNow GineersNow Engineering Magazine Issue No. 014, Sau | Page 26

Engineers Should Remember
These Forgotten Leadership
Lessons From Childhood
6 Leadership skills that everyone learned
from childhood that all engineers should
remember and apply in their work
Leadership seems to be that
one thing a lot of people seem
to be capable of but most of us
don’t act upon. More often than
not, we end up following other
leaders’ wills instead. While this
isn’t necessarily a bad thing,
there are times where we just
have to be the ones taking
charge. But what if you feel like
you lack the necessary skills to
actually guide your team to the
right direction? Do you even
have the qualities to be the
head of the project? Well fear
not, you do have the skills, and
they’re all things that you
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learned from childhood that
you’ve probably forgot and
need to recall:
Say “thank you”
Remember, whenever your
coworker successfully com-
pletes a task you asked them to
do, say “thank you”. Even just
this simple phrase that your
mother taught you lets them
know that you appreciate the
hard work and effort they put
into the job, and makes them
more likely to perform other
tasks for you in the future.