Dual Competency

Wherever you may be employed now or in the future, your superiors will probably be sensitive to the fact that you are building and maintaining better relationships with people than your co-workers and that you know how to operate effectively in a group—that you have a double competency. You are skillful technically. You are also skillful with people. Observing this double competency, your superiors will naturally assume that if you are good at human relations at the employee level, you will also be good at the management level. It is a wise assumption. Let’s look at what happened to Cleo.

Cleo. A highly competent computer technician, Cleo concentrated on her personal productivity, but she did not neglect her human-relations ...

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