How can you improve your experience and skills as manager or senior engineer?

These strategies will help you balance new assignments with your existing work:

·         Learn to work more efficiently. The pressure of added responsibility stimulates most people to learn how to accomplish more in the same amount of time. Look for opportunities to be more decisive, to let go of tasks that should be delegated to others, to work faster and to create better systems for monitoring and tracking work.

·         Plan short-term and long-term. You might be able to orchestrate some developmental assignments rather quickly. You might have to put others on hold as you wait for the right opportunity to emerge. You may get as much out of a small-scale, ongoing assignment (e.g., being a peer coach for new employees) or a short-term project (e.g., serving on a hiring committee) as you would from a larger commitment (e.g., joining a new R&D project).

·         Schedule—and protect—your time. This is easier if your assignment involves specific meeting times and clear deadlines, but block out time for other key activities that will help you make the most of your developmental assignment, such as study and practice, writing in a learning journal or meeting with a mentor.

·         Get support. Bring family, friends and coworkers in on your plans and progress. Ask for their feedback and encouragement, as well as for tangible help, such as taking your place at a meeting, cooking dinner or carpooling, that will give you more time to devote to your developmental assignment. But keep in mind that you’ll need to return these favors in the future when those who have helped you need your help in their own developmental assignments.

As the time goes, your EXPERIENCE will increase................. as far as the improvement in skills is concerned, you have to take every step to explore things that works out.

Go for new courses.

Explore internet 

read expert's blogs

chat with seniors

assist experts

New courses is the answer......

BY UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION IN YOUR FIELD , PARTICIPATING IN RELATED TRAINING COURSES AND LEARNING FROM YOUR NETWORKS

I fully agree with the answer been added by  Duncan Robertson....Thanks.

• Observe the effects of your actions
• Observe other managers
• Reflect on what you have seen

• Finding out what the client wants to achieve
• Agreeing the timescales, costs and resources needed
• Drawing up a detailed plan for how to achieve each stage of the project
• Selecting and leading a project team
• Negotiating with contractors and suppliers for materials and services
• Making sure that each stage of the project is progressing on time and on budget
• Reporting regularly on progress to the client or to senior managers

You improve your skill as a manager or senior engineer by; focusing on the "skill" and "Success" of your ''team" by so doing you are also improving your own skills and success. Because that is the reason you where made a manager or senior engineer to make sure your junior colleques but their best like you did during when you where in that level that called for your promition to the management level. But in the situation where by you ignore the people aspect which is paying attention to their new rolls, you have missed it as a maneger or a senior engineer. A comapny cannot make you a manager or senior engineer for you to start doing what you have been doing from onset or to keep improving on your skills rather to bring others up in the way you have contributted your own quater in the past. So the only improvement a manager needs is to have a good teem work with his or her imployers and to pay attention to their new roll . That is the only way to improve.

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Need to improve planning & organizing skills. Also need to have a big picture view of the business you are in. Effective interpersonal skills and problem solving skills with meticulous attention to detail will be very beneficial in solving day to day issues.

 

You can improve your experience and skills as manager or senior engineer, by getting a mentor or coach, updating your knowledge by attending a new courses, listening to your team’s idea, and communicate in effective way.