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Soft Skills For Technologists and Technical Managers!
If you are a Technical Professional and you are being asked to step up to management of any kind, OR, if you are currently a Technical Manager, and you want to be more effective and successful, then you've come to the right place.
If you are currently a technical professional, the key to successful selection and transition to technical manager is not your ability to produce a budget, develop a schedule, or complete a performance evaluation. The key to your success is and will be your interpersonal skills. Your people skills (the soft skills) will determine your long-term success. Those skills you were not trained in while in college.
If you are currently a technical manager, then you know your challenge is managing diverse teams made up of technical and non-technical people from all over the world, of different ages, and different experiential backgrounds. Bridging the communication gap and building healthy, effective, and success driven teams are your key requirements.
In either case
Click on the link Technologist to Manager: The Necessary Soft Skills .
The link will take you to my website,
http://www.stevencerri.com
devoted to acquiring the inter-personal, people skills, necessary to transition to technical management and those skills necessary to build and maintain a culturally and age diverse team.
Every technical organization consists of three groups of people ... technical, non-technical, and managers ...
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The managers are trying to figure out how to get technical and non-technical people from different departments, of different ages, from different cultures, with varied backgrounds and capabilities to work together as a coherent focused, cooperative team ...
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The non-technical people are trying to figure out how to
communicate with the technical people ... and ...
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The technical people are trying to figure out why everyone else wants so much attention and is so difficult to communicate with ... they just want to do their technical work.
And when the engineer or scientist does a great technical job they are promoted to project manager or beyond with the assumption that if they can do a great technical job they can
automatically manage people doing similar tasks... when what they really need is training to take them into a totally new career ... the new career of management!
What every technical organization would rather have:
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Technical and non-technical people who can communicate more comfortably and respectfully with each other, building relationships not damaging them, and who can make important decisions together ... quicker ... moving projects along faster and more cost-effectively ... and ...
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Technical and non-technical professionals with the interpersonal skills that will allow them to transition to management smoothly and effectively. They will become the managers that their
manager want to promote ... and ...
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Technical people who are as competent in their interpersonal communications as they are in their own technical areas of expertise ... and ...
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Managers who are more comfortable, more effective, and more capable of leading a diverse group of technical and non-technical people as a team.
"Excellent and pertenent material for me. This is a key to opening a career door. I'll take any course this instructor (Steven Cerri) offers."
Virgil West, Engineer and Program Manager, Ball Aerospace Technologies Corp.
The Solution ... The Bridge:
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Cerri coaches, trains, and facilitates your managers to improve the ways they manage their diverse technical organizations ... and ...
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Cerri coaches, trains, and facilitates both your technical and non-technical people to better communicate with each other so they can enhance their relationships not damage them ... and ...
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Cerri coaches, trains, and facilitates your technical people to move up the managerial ladder to be effective project managers and more.
Why Is Steven Cerri An Expert In These Areas? Because He....
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Is an engineer, scientist, and businessman, with a BS in aeronautical engineering, an MS in geophysics, and an
MBA
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Has 20 years of experience in high-technology companies
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Has personally made the transition from engineer and scientist to manager and organizational leader
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Is a facilitator, trainer, coach, author, and speaker specializing in technical people and technical organizations
Wouldn't the members of your technical organization rather be trained in the skills of communication, team processes, and management by a technical professional who has mastered these
skills ... someone who has been in their shoes? That is what Steven Cerri brings to your organization.
"When Steven talks to our engineers and scientists he has 'instant credibility' because he is an engineer,
scientist, and businessman ... Steven has definitely developed a following among our technical staff."
Vern Hanson, Training Coordinator, Ball Aerospace Technologies Corp.
What To Do Next?
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Contact our office to schedule an exploratory interview regarding creating a technical organization and technical
people that are more than technical ... call 925-735-9500 or fill out the information request form at the CONTACT CERRI link on this website, or email
steven@stcerri.com
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"Due to Steven's operational background in technology firms and market planning, he was able to very quickly grasp the essence of where we were in our planning cycle, and what key issues we faced. His facilitation style during the planning meetings with the entire Senior Leadership Team was right on... We accomplished all that I had hoped we would and the output of the meeting has become the foundation for the ongoing planning work we are now doing...
Bob Stevenson, President, GeoGraphix, Inc.
STCerri International
Attention: Steven Cerri
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