July 9, 2009; 6:30pm-9:00pm
Michaels at Shoreline, Mountain View
Steven Cerri
STCerri International
Have you ever wondered how you prefer to gather information? Have you ever wondered how other people prefer to receive information? Or have you ever wondered why you can communicate easily with some people and not so well with others?
In our July AIAA dinner meeting, Steven will answer, for each of you, and you will answer for yourselves, these three questions and a whole lot more.
There are no group exercises this evening. But along with Steven's presentation, you will receive a portion of his Personal Performance questionnaire. In strictest confidence (if you choose), you will be able to answer the questionnaire and score yourself based on the information Steven presents this evening. With this information you will be able to determine your preferred communication style for sending and receiving information and you will also be able to determine and understand why you communicate easily with some people and not so easily with others. Imagine how this might help you communicate with those very significant people in your life ;)
You are guaranteed to walk out of this evening with more insight into your communication processes.
Join us for a fun (yes it will be fun), enlightening, and thoroughly informative evening with Steven Cerri.
Steven Cerri is an expert in the transition process from engineer to leader. He personally has made the transition from engineer, to program and product manager, vice president of engineering, to director of training in high tech companies, to general manager, to entrepreneur, to trainer and consultant. Steven has done landmark work in the areas of transitioning engineers to positions of management and leadership; maximizing engineering performance and productivity; and aligning organizational leadership. He understands people and organic structures in fast-paced and challenging business environments, and has successfully managed a number of start-ups, mergers, turnarounds and "entrenched" teams.
Steven Cerri began his career as an aeronautical engineer working on the space program. An engineer, scientist, and businessman by education and career, Steven is a consultant, trainer, facilitator, and coach. Steven specializes in training engineers and technical staff to become effective managers and leaders, effective communicators and negotiators, and effective at technical customer service.
Steven has trained and coached thousands of engineers. He is contributing
author of the IEEE book,
"The Balanced Engineer: Essential Ideas for Career Development".
He has authored scores of unique and innovative training and
change-management programs for technical organizations including:
During his career Mr. Cerri achieved a reputation for helping competent engineers who were poor managers become highly effective managers. Steven took management control of a group responsible for first-pass-yield at a printer manufacturer where the first-pass-yield had remained at 75% for over 12 months. With Steven's guidance the first-pass-yield rose to 98% in 8 weeks. Steven has also been instrumental in the turn-around coaching of employees who were about to be let go. They ultimately became some of the most valued employees in their organizations.
Steven is a contributing consultant, speaker, and professor on the PBS education program titled: “Taking the Lead: The Management Revolution”, a 26-episode management curriculum, currently airing on PBS television and on 42 US college campuses. He has presented papers at National IEEE Conferences titled: “Transitioning from Engineer to Manager”, and “Effective Communication Skills for Engineers”. He is also completing a book titled: “Advancing Up the Technology Management Ladder”
Mr. Cerri appears in International Who's Who of Professional Management and is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he teaches management in the department of engineering's Technology Management Program. He has been an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University, has trained Total Quality Management, and has completed certification courses as a personal and professional coach. He is a Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and has delivered NLP-based training in a variety of technical and non-technical organizations. Steven Cerri has conducted trainings in China, England, Italy (in Italian), as well as in the United States. Mr. Cerri is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD).
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* Young Professionals are AIAA members under age 35.
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Registration and no-host cocktails at 6:30 pm;
buffet dinner at 7:00 pm;
program starts at 7:30 pm;
program ends at 9:30 pm.
This meeting is open to the general public.
For more information about this meeting, contact
Sylvee Walenczewski
Michael's at Shoreline
2960 N Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA,94043
650-962-1014
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