 If I started my engineering career over knowing what I know today, what is the one skill that I would really focus on developing? In these engineering manager 80-20 shorts videos, we help engineers become better leaders. And in this video, I'm going to give you that skill, looking back on my career. Now if I started today from scratch as a recent graduate, as an engineer, the one skill that I would really focus on, in addition of course to my technical skills, which you're just going to be building on a daily basis, I'd focus on public speaking, because if you can speak in public effectively, you can do so many things as an engineer. You can build technical expertise and really be seen as an expert in your field. You will improve your overall communication skills. You'll be able to have very effective conversations with your supervisors about your career, and then as you grow maybe with clients or other consultants. But the number one thing that public speaking will help you do is it will help you to build your confidence. I was just speaking with a company the other day who's going to be enrolling engineers in our management training programs, and they asked me, you know, what skills are the best in this program? What skills should our people really focus on? And I told them like, listen, all of these skills are important, but if they don't have confidence in themselves, they won't be able to go and use these skills effectively, and it's not going to help them. So if I started all over, I would really, really invest in my public speaking skills. I would join a group like a Toastmasters or just volunteer as much as I could within the firm to do brown bag lunch presentations. Do whatever you can to build those speaking skills, and you will not be sorry that you did. Please be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel. We put videos like this out on a weekly basis, and we will continue to help you engineer your own success.