Career Corner: Pitching Your Contributions at the Right Level

Anderson-Cook, Christine Michaela

Title: Career Corner: Pitching Your Contributions at the Right Level

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Whether it is in a job interview, a presentation or in collaborations with colleagues with differing technical backgrounds, effectively conveying your ideas and contributions is at least as important as the content. Daniel Goleman speaks to the importance of emotional intelligence being a key driver of success and advancement. Why does this matter so much? If you dive right into technical details without providing a broader context and motivation for the problem, then the people with whom you are communicating will not appreciate the contribution. If you talk only about your ideas at a high level with insufficient detail, then the weight of your contributions might be undervalued or misinterpreted.

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: 2017-04-15

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOD; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

OSTI Identifier:: 1392806

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-20624
Journal ID: ISSN 0033-524X

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Quality Progress

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 50; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0033-524X

Publisher:: American Society for Quality Control

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS; Mathematics

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