The Goal Is Adding In What Isn't There Now
Most technologists, engineers and scientists, select their career path because it satisfies the way they want to move through the world. It satisfies a longing to either understand the
world in which they live or it satisfies a desire to create from their own being things that don't yet exist. Without getting too philosophical, I believe that is what motivates us as engineers and scientists.
You'll notice in my description above there is not mention about people or the relationships between people. It's about the relationship between me, the engineer, the scientist, and the
laws of the universe; the laws of the world within which I exist. If I or my fellow engineers and scientists had wanted to be involved with people we would have become therapists,
or sales people, or maybe even doctors. But we didn't. We became engineers and scientists. We, by definition, didn't miss the human contact we didn't get as we were studying why
things work the way they do.
Fast forward to the present. Maybe we've just graduated from college. Maybe we've just gotten a technical certificate. Or maybe we've been an engineer or scientist for several decades.
Wherever we've been along our path, we've probably done pretty well. We've succeeded maybe even excelled at our technical abilities.
And now, for whatever reason, we are being asked or we are asking ourselves to become more involved in management, in leadership, in team participation. And it's not quite
what we thought it would be. It's difficult. These creatures called human beings aren't as predictable as F=ma or E=IR. The laws of physics don't seem to change with blood sugar
levels or with what has happened the day before. People seem like very unpredictable "black boxes"; input goes in but we're never quite sure what the output will be.
Technologists see people as the great unpredictable conundrum.
But it doesn't have to be this way. People, just like other aspects of the universe, function within relatively predictable parameters. While not as predictable as F=ma or E=IR,
humans are indeed creatures that can be understood, lead, managed, and worked with in a positive and constructive way.... if one knows how to do it.
STCerri International's sole purpose is to turn technologists into great communicators, great managers, and great leaders. That's all we do and we do it very, very well.