FWD: Getting along despite interpersonal skills

[Anonymous <anonfwd -at- raycomm -dot- com>]

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The discussion about how to get along with SMEs has been
interesting.

Here's a question for the group: what do you do with a
coworker (writer) who has TERRIBLE interpersonal skills?
This person started working with us about a year and a half
ago. He has managed to aggravate and alienate most of the
developers, who have always been great to work with (for
me).

He cannot seem to work as part of a team at all, seldom
considering when his need to "tweak" one last thing might
cause other team members extra work. He doesn't "chat" with
people unless he wants something from them. He has very poor
social skills. We try to include him in social outings, but
he ends up talking about work or sitting there quietly and
not contributing to conversations.

What do you do with someone like that? Figure they'll learn
in time? How would they learn?

I don't know that I myself will do anything about it, as I
am not his manager, but if I were, I wouldn't know what to
do. So I'm curious: if you managed someone like this, what
would you do?

TIA for ideas,

Anonymous


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