Can tech people be business leaders? Upcoming seminar may have the answer | WTN
"When Cay Villars worked in marketing for the biotechnology sector, she began to notice a certain pattern: Scientists with a good idea for a new product could find the business world to be a much different place than academia, with a different set of skills required to succeed.
"Along the way, I realized that it was that people dynamic inside a company that could make or break a product just as effectively as a competitor," Villars said. "I got into coaching and understanding the dynamics of human performance. What makes people top performers, and how do they leverage the best of what they have?"
Villars, now the principal consultant at Celebrus Consultants Group, will be leading seminars in that very question at the Leadership In Technology Companies. The seminars, set for Oct. 11 and 13, are being sponsored by the UW Small Business Development Center and will be hosted at the Biotechnology Center Institute on the Promega Corporate Campus in the Madison suburb of Fitchburg.
"We know through our own experience and talking with people, leaders and managers that have a scientific and technical background, they tend to look at things a little differently from a lot of non-technical people," explained Barry Roberts, education program manager for the SBDC. "There are certain challenges with that scientific, technical background when they get into leading people.""
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"Along the way, I realized that it was that people dynamic inside a company that could make or break a product just as effectively as a competitor," Villars said. "I got into coaching and understanding the dynamics of human performance. What makes people top performers, and how do they leverage the best of what they have?"
Villars, now the principal consultant at Celebrus Consultants Group, will be leading seminars in that very question at the Leadership In Technology Companies. The seminars, set for Oct. 11 and 13, are being sponsored by the UW Small Business Development Center and will be hosted at the Biotechnology Center Institute on the Promega Corporate Campus in the Madison suburb of Fitchburg.
"We know through our own experience and talking with people, leaders and managers that have a scientific and technical background, they tend to look at things a little differently from a lot of non-technical people," explained Barry Roberts, education program manager for the SBDC. "There are certain challenges with that scientific, technical background when they get into leading people.""
Read more here.
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