Comments on: Tech worker charm school? http://www.hrtechnews.com/techie-charm-school-2/ HRMS, Internet Monitoring, Payroll Software, Time and Attendance, and more Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:58:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: PC http://www.hrtechnews.com/techie-charm-school-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1120 PC Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:57:16 +0000 http://www.hrtechnews.com/?p=334#comment-1120 Judging by the quality of some of these written responses, it may be a great idea to enlighten not only the IT staff, but the other management as well regarding simple English sentence structure and grammar. It is sad when people are actually being paid for work that involves communication with others, yet display barely a basic working knowledge of the language. Removing the jargon from these peoples' vocabularies may leave precious little language ability at all! Judging by the quality of some of these written responses, it may be a great idea to enlighten not only the IT staff, but the other management as well regarding simple English sentence structure and grammar. It is sad when people are actually being paid for work that involves communication with others, yet display barely a basic working knowledge of the language. Removing the jargon from these peoples’ vocabularies may leave precious little language ability at all!

]]> By: HKS http://www.hrtechnews.com/techie-charm-school-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1065 HKS Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:14:13 +0000 http://www.hrtechnews.com/?p=334#comment-1065 Techies do sometimes have a air about them that could indicate to those not so techy, that they feel superior. Problem is they are not in most cases user capable, only hardware and software installing literate at best. Ask them questions in the rhelm of a user function, and they are stumped, "I don't know how is it used, only how it works". What is important to a tech is not always what is important to the user. Likewise, techies I have experienced are very abrupt, short tempered, and dismissive of those who do not speak Techno. (which i do not but can usually get what i need accomplished by asking the right wuestions, if you do not ask the right questions they think you are a bother) this makes it hard for people to like them let alone get any kind of communication going that could resolve a problem. A class like this would be wasted on them however, they would be really angry if they had to do this and then just revert back to their usual behavior, that why if this is done is must be tied speficially to goals and reviews and MONEY, to get them to do it. Techies do sometimes have a air about them that could indicate to those not so techy, that they feel superior. Problem is they are not in most cases user capable, only hardware and software installing literate at best. Ask them questions in the rhelm of a user function, and they are stumped, “I don’t know how is it used, only how it works”. What is important to a tech is not always what is important to the user. Likewise, techies I have experienced are very abrupt, short tempered, and dismissive of those who do not speak Techno. (which i do not but can usually get what i need accomplished by asking the right wuestions, if you do not ask the right questions they think you are a bother) this makes it hard for people to like them let alone get any kind of communication going that could resolve a problem. A class like this would be wasted on them however, they would be really angry if they had to do this and then just revert back to their usual behavior, that why if this is done is must be tied speficially to goals and reviews and MONEY, to get them to do it.

]]> By: vw http://www.hrtechnews.com/techie-charm-school-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1059 vw Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:36:01 +0000 http://www.hrtechnews.com/?p=334#comment-1059 "The problem: The two groups don’t speak the same language. The solution: Teach the technical crowd to speak jargon-free English." ... IT-bonics?? There must be a way to work in some analogies to welfare or quotas ... From a purely business perspective, how can the "business folks" progress the business without reaching out to understand and apply to a business plan? It's a recipe for mediocrity. I smell a rift ... and I'll bet the minority (techies) lose ... how sad for business ... “The problem: The two groups don’t speak the same language. The solution: Teach the technical crowd to speak jargon-free English.” … IT-bonics??

There must be a way to work in some analogies to welfare or quotas …

From a purely business perspective, how can the “business folks” progress the business without reaching out to understand and apply to a business plan? It’s a recipe for mediocrity.

I smell a rift … and I’ll bet the minority (techies) lose … how sad for business …

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