The Happy Engineer | Career Success for Engineering Leadership
Aug 31, 2026 · 20 min · 10 segments
Self-promotion makes most engineers cringe. You don't need a personality transplant — you need fifteen minutes and a better question. The three-step script, including the exact questions to use →…
We'll walk through all three right now, but let's agree first that you do need visibility.
You need visibility in your engineering career, especially when you're going from manager to senior manager, to director and beyond it becomes more and more important and if you don't agree with me on that then you need to go back and watch the video that i've already created where we talked about why louder engineers get promoted first that your reputation is built on results multiplied by reach it's a totally separate conversation that i've covered in depth in another video but you need that visibility so step one is to build that list of the leaders and influencers who you want visibility with and book a 15-minute one-on-one conversation with those leaders to share with them a win that you have on a project.
maybe I should
Book those 15-minute one-on-one conversations with the leaders who you want to build visibility with.
Why only 15 minutes? This is not a strategy that you tack on at the end of your recurring one-on-one with your boss or at the end of a mentorship meeting where you're going to be covering a lot of other topics.
There's a certain importance in this particular tactic of the ninja brag that we want to come in, deliver this conversation.
We'll walk through all three right now, but let's agree first that you do need visibility.
You need visibility in your engineering career, especially when you're going from manager to senior manager, to director and beyond it becomes more and more important and if you don't agree with me on that then you need to go back and watch the video that i've already created where we talked about why louder engineers get promoted first that your reputation is built on results multiplied by reach it's a totally separate conversation that i've covered in depth in another video but you need that visibility so step one is to build that list of the leaders and influencers who you want visibility with and book a 15-minute one-on-one conversation with those leaders to share with them a win that you have on a project.
maybe I should
Book those 15-minute one-on-one conversations with the leaders who you want to build visibility with.
Why only 15 minutes? This is not a strategy that you tack on at the end of your recurring one-on-one with your boss or at the end of a mentorship meeting where you're going to be covering a lot of other topics.
There's a certain importance in this particular tactic of the ninja brag that we want to come in, deliver this conversation.
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