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za84 replied to the topic Should Interpersonal skills be more valuable than technical skills? in the forum Introduction to Project Management 6 years, 12 months ago
I believe that interpersonal skills are more essential to the work environment especially to teamwork oriented place than technical skills. For example, an engineer could be top-notch in his/her technical skills, but if he/she fails in communicating and explaining their thoughts clearly, the implementation of their technical knowledge would be impossible. As a college student, we have been involved in many projects in which we were working as groups and I am sure that we have dealt with some group members who do possess technical knowledge but they lack interpersonal skills, such as time management skills and communications skills, and they don’t prepare for their presentation thinking that their intelligence will help them to succeed which would affect the whole group performance.