Author / Joseph Jeralds

One of the most important things when dealing with people is soft skills.  Soft skills are things like looking people in the eye when they talk, knowing how to properly respond to…

One of the biggest things that both normal and technical people have problems with understanding and dealing with is the difference between influence and power.  Influence is better than power because with…

In our study of technical people over the semester, we learned about how to talk to, motivate, and deal with technical people, but now we are going to flip the tables and…

No matter what things will go bad and you will lose a clients trust at some point and it is important to regain that clients trust.  There was some research done recently…

Change is one of the hardest things for humans, in general, to accept or deal with in general.  This is also one of the biggest problems that geeks have dealing with people…

I found the chapter in our book about becoming a manager from being a geek to be a very interesting and relatable chapter.  The chapter basically explains that almost all of the…

There are many different books that (supposedly) tell you how to make your career successful and how to get to the top of the corporate ladder.  These books are all fine and…

Be it hard or easy to believe, geeks and non-geeks have different work methods and view doing work very differently than the opposite faction.  Geeks see work as a way to solve…

Stereotyping is a bad habit that a lot of people have, but most people will stereotype someone without even realizing they did it.  Essentially a stereotype is a big enveloping statement putting…