As engineers, we all know how to think creatively, solve a problem, and bring ideas to life in one form or another. But communicating ideas in a way to gather support, invoke action, and, just as important, get credit for the idea, can sometimes be more challenging than the idea itself. Often, if an idea isn’t initially well-received, it can be assumed it was a bad idea and abandoned, sometimes creating doubt and future hesitation to share more ideas. But in reality, it wasn’t always the idea, but the timing and the way the vision was communicated. In this session, Christine will share her experience overcoming her own self-doubt to generate dozens of invention disclosures and new project ideas every year and outline the tools that participants can use to start documenting and communicating new ideas with success.
Learning Objectives:
Identify essential skills to document and communicate design or project ideas to gain support for implementation.
Explain various communication approaches and how to adapt your approach to the needs of the situation and audience.
Describe basic steps to ideation and documentation of new design or project ideas with resources to learn more on how to develop these skills.
