RE: Getting along despite interpersonal skills

["Jim Shaeffer" <jims -at- spsi -dot- com>]

1. How is this person's work being measured, by the quality of 
his writing or by the quality of his contribution to the team? 
If this person is like me (as seems likely), he will respond 
much more to objective measurement than to appeals to 
his own or other people's feelings. 

2. Getting along in the workplace does not require great 
social skills. I am a generally quiet participant at social 
gatherings, but a valued member of several work teams. I am 
strongly oriented toward projects, not persons. (It helps that 
we have processes in place for sharing information, bug 
tracking software that includes the documentation like the 
other software modules, and internal email so that I can 
_start_ the interview process without a face-to-face.) 

3. As others have suggested, pointing out how specific 
behaviors have adverse consequences for projects (not 
for the people involved) could help. 

Jim Shaeffer (jims -at- spsi -dot- com)

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