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Becoming an Integrative Leader™
The facilitation programs listed below are for those engineering managers and leaders who want to be even more effective, and take their careers to the next level and who want to be more effective at cultivating leadership qualities in their direct reports.

Module 10: Communication and Leadership Confidence at the Executive Level.(Prerequisites: None / Duration: 2 days / Class size is limited to 14 participants)
Once a person has been a manager for some time or an executive, communication and influence becomes a subtle art, the more elegant the better. As a person advances up the management and executive ranks, influence based on personal persuasion becomes the norm while influence due to positional power becomes a means of last (or less obvious resort). This module provides training in the more subtler aspects of communication and influence which become more useful and effective as one advances in management and leadership.

Module 11: Negotiating for Experienced Managers.
(Prerequisites: None / Duration: 2 days / Class size is limited to 14 participants)
At the level of manager, leader, and executive, negotiation, like communication and influence, takes on a subtle and much more sophisticated form. This module will teach the negotiation tools necessary for managers, leaders, and executives to use in order to achieve the influence necessary for success.

Module 12: Choosing and Building Organizational Cultures That Fit Your Outcomes.
(Prerequisites: None / Duration: 2 days / Class size is limited to 14 participants)
Most managers and leaders develop a culture with and for their organizations that is a default culture. Often it is developed without a great deal of forethought. Imagine being able to develop a team and organizational culture on purpose, with concrete steps and predictable results. This module will train managers and executives to do just that.

Module 13: New Leadership and Management Processes for Experienced Managers.
(Prerequisites: Module 10 / Duration: 2 days / Class size is limited to 14 participants)
Leadership without management is doomed to chaos and management without leadership is doomed to stagnation. Both are necessary to succeed as an executive. This module trains managers, leaders, and executives in processes that will allow the manager to succeed and lead when necessary and the leader to succeed and manage when necessary. This is a critical module for long-term management and executive success.

Partial Client List

Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation

DAKO Pharmaceuticals

Meditec

Maersk Logistics

Solutions-II, Inc.

Sony Corporation

ViewSonic Corporation
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Steven's An author

Steven Cerri is an IEEE published
author. He is contributing
author to the IEEE book titled,
The Balanced Engineer
"Essential Ideas for Career
Development"

Steven Cerri has been published
in the following magazines:
The American Society of
Mechanical Engineers Magazine
(twice)
The American Society of
Professional Engineers Magazine

"You Speak Our Language!"
This statement is from a manager
who took my courses previously
and is now signing up three of
his direct reports to take my
3-day course, "Advancing Up
the Technology the "Technology
Management Ladder." Here
is what he said:
"You really speak the language
of the engineer AND you
understand management.
I now understand I have to find
the right person to fit the right
function. Although I don't
think of your classes every
day, I'd guess that I think
about something I learned
from your classes at least
once a week. Every week
I think of something I learned
that helps me with my work."
L.A., Manager, Ball Aerospace
and Technologies Corporation

"(Steven) has an aerospace
background! He knows what
(our company) is all about!"
Tom K., Mechanical engineer.

"One of the best classes
I've taken. (I)... recommend
this class to entire departments
together!"
Kathleen M., Publications
department.

"Steve is a wonderful speaker
and is very knowledgeable and
has enough enough relevant
technical experience in his past
that he presents very credible
and wise. Thanks, enjoyed
it."
T. K., Aerospace engineer

"Over the years I have attended
several classes and read some
literature on leadership and
management development.
The insights and techniques
I received from Steven Cerri's
courses are by far the most
useful and applicable to improve
my effectiveness in dealing with
people. I go back to the class
handouts and notes I have
taken again and again as a
refresher on the subject. If you
are serious about enhancing
your skills in interacting with
colleagues and customers,
attend one of Steve Cerri's
classes. You will
happily return for more."
B.O., Mechanical engineer