HR Tech News » social skills http://www.hrtechnews.com HRMS, Internet Monitoring, Payroll Software, Time and Attendance, and more Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:10:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Tech worker charm school? http://www.hrtechnews.com/techie-charm-school-2/ http://www.hrtechnews.com/techie-charm-school-2/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:00:30 +0000 Sam Narisi http://www.hrtechnews.com/?p=334 Here’s one company that isn’t just training its IT employees on technical skills.

The much-read business periodical “BusinessWeek” reports that mega-corporation Kimberly-Clark recently ran a finishing school of sorts for its IT team.

According to the story by Ben Livisohn, the school was intended to teach the company’s IT team the finer points of “corporate interaction.”

Read: Talk nicely and intelligibly to others in the company.

The two-day seminar resulted from an IT shakeup at the company that started about a year ago when Kimberly-Clark outsourced about 80% of its tech needs.

The 800 or so tech workers who survived the purge got a new job description: Transmit IT knowledge to the business folks.

The problem: The two groups don’t speak the same language. The solution: Teach the technical crowd to speak jargon-free English.

The curriculum also included tips on “relationship building” and dressing better.

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