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One of the challenges most of us have, as technical professionals is, we believe all we need for success in our career is to be the best we can at our chosen technical skill

We think being terrific technically is all we need for career success

This all makes perfect sense early in our careers. Since we're heads down, tails up, as busy as a snow-making machine at the start of winter, working on developing our technical skills

Whether it’s a Developer, Network Engineer, Help-desk Technician, Business Analyst, Technical Writer, Data Base Administrator, or any other technical role, virtually all of us think, all we need for career success is to be outstanding technically

Unfortunately, what most of us don’t realize is that being excellent technically isn’t the whole story

We also need Human Skills

Now this is not surprising, since the reality is that it's not being taught in our schools, universities and technical colleges. It’s not in the curriculum

Which means it's not your fault, because no-one is really raising the awareness of Human Skills and helping you to recognize the value of learning them, both personally, and for your career

As we've seen, Human Skills are the critical non-technical capabilities we need to add on to our technical, or domain, skills for long term success. They are 2X as important as technical skills for career success

Businesses are recognizing it more and more - and expect new hires coming into their organizations to have Human Skills.

But we're just not teaching it

Which leads to the question: "How do we solve that problem?"

And perhaps even more importantly for you as a self-motivated IT Professional:
"If I'm motivated to learn Human Skills, how to it go about that?"

Now, you might be thinking:
- “This must be difficult”
- “This isn’t for me” …

But Human Skills are learnable skills – anyone can learn them

And the good news is there's a bonus: Human Skills will also help in all areas of your life – not just at work

And as you move up the ranks managing and leading … Human Skills become increasingly important