Overseeing a team of employees may be a no-brainer for an experienced business executive, but for an engineer whose skills and education have focused on technical subjects, making the transition to a supervisory role can be daunting.
“A lot of engineers and scientists are successful in college when you crank out great reports and numbers, and you don’t always necessarily have to work on a team,” said Jan Kucher, senior project engineer at the Madison engineering firm RMT.
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