Who is Steven Cerri?
Steven Cerri is an expert in the inter-personal, people skills necessary for the career advancement of the technical professional. Whether engineer, scientist, or technologist, Steven Cerri is an expert on how to communicate effectively with anyone in any situation and on transitioning from technical professional to technical manager and leader.
He is the developer of "Technologist to Leader™" a program specifically designed to take a technologist to leader with a high degree of success.
He is the developer of "The Fully Integrated Technical Professional™", tools for staying a technologist and maximizing participation and influence in your organization.
He is the developer of "Technical Contextual Leadership™", a unique and highly effective structure for technical management that adjusts management styles to the full context of a given situation.
Who are clients for coaching, training, and facilitation?
Technical professionals currently employed by companies. These technical professionals take the initiative, on their own, to be trained and coached to advance their careers or they have already been promoted and need help adjusting to their new responsibilities.
Technical professionals selected by companies as individuals the company wants to train and coach in preparation to advance their careers or who have already been promoted and need help quickly to adjust to their new responsibilities.
Technical professionals who are independent contractors and/or consultants who want to be more effective with the customers.
Who are my clients for speaking engagements?
Companies who want to have a keynote speech that directly addresses the interpersonal, people skills necessary for the technologist in the technical organization of today. As a keynote, the speech is dynamic, fun, and inspiring, and at the same time one that connects directly with the technical professional in the audience. In a breakout session, the class is one that produces change in the participants such that they will be more willing to deal with the people-issues usually avoided by technical professionals.
What makes Steven Cerri different?
Steven is different because he has been through the transition process himself. By education, Steven holds a B.S. in aeronautical engineering, an M.S. in geophysics, and an MBA. Because, during his career, he has successfully made the transition from technologist to leader, he receives instant credibility. His point of view is not as a psychologist, or human resource specialist. His point of view is from that of a technical professional who has had to deal with all the issues that make the transition to leader difficult and challenging. This coupled with Steven's knowledge of Neruo-Linguistic Programming (NLP) makes Steven uniquely qualified not only to impart information but also to facilitate change.
“We specifically brought Steven to BATC because of his ability to communicate with our engineering and management staff. When Steven talks to our engineers and scientists he has INSTANT CREDIBILITY because he is an engineer, scientist, and businessman. He has done what he and we are asking our people to do. When he talks about the soft-skills like communication, leadership, and customer service he walks his talk and behaves just like he is training our people to behave. For example, they see and experience the positive effects of effective communication while they are being trained in it. Their behavior changes without even realizing it and without any effort or resistance. Steven has definitely developed a following among our technical staff. They anticipate and sign up for every one of his classes. Vern Hanson, Training Department, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
STCI's Mission
The mission of STCI is to train technical professionals and technical managers in the inter-personal people skills (i.e., the soft skills) of communication, team participation, team building, negotiation, management, and leadership. STCI is unique because Steven Cerri has been through the transition process from technical professional to organizational leader and transmits knowledge, experience, and real-world information about what is truly required to be a results oriented, technology manager.
STCI's History
ST Cerri International was founded in 1992. STCI is a California corporation and has been from it's inception. We have conducted training, coaching, and facilitation programs throughout the world, including China, Italy, and England, as well as the United States.
In Summary
Cerri specializes in training technical professionals in the inter-personal, people skills necessary to make the transition from engineer and scientist to results-oriented manager and leader. While most people believe that if a technologist can do good technical work, then they can certainly manage people doing the same technical work. But it just doesn't work that way. For most technologists, management is a new career. Management is something they didn't prepare for. Steven Cerri the founder, trainer, and coach of STCerri International is an engineer, scientist, and businessman who has made the transition himself from technologist to leader. It is this personal experience that enables him to reach other engineers and scientists and help them through the process. (For more information on what our clients usually face and what Cerri provides to them, click on...
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