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Are you frustrated by great technical employees who have limited
people skills?
Are those employees causing problems with clients, maybe even
causing you to lose them?
Are those employees causing problems for other employees?
Are you tired of talking about these same issues over and over
again?
Strike-Force Coaching may be the answer.
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| Contrary to popular belief, people skills CAN be learned! |
You employ bright people. If they could learn their technical skills, why would learning people skills be too challenging?
Too often, we hear managers say, "Jim's just not a people person." Well, Jim wasn't a technical person either, until he learned the appropriate skills. This is no different. Sure, some people have more of a knack for dealing with people, but some people have more of a knack for technical subjects as well. It doesn't mean that others can't learn them.
Before you throw your hands up in frustration, give that employee a chance to learn new skills and behaviors that will help you and help move his career forward. Check out our actual case studies on the next page.
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| Denise Altman, MBA, CPA, CPBA |
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Denise Altman has coached technical people for over 15 years. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Professional Behavior Analyst. Working with the accounting profession, she found that targeted coaching could produce dramatic results and help move people forward in their careers. The same has applied to engineers, IT professionals, and others.
"Just because people skills don't come naturally to someone doesn't mean they don't have the capacity. Some technical people are great at both technical and people skills. Others need to focus a bit on people skills. These technical people are obviously bright -- there's no reason in the world they can't learn the skills that will help them deal more effectively with other people."
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