Les compétences interpersonnelles sont-elles importantes? (document en anglais)

Nowadays, having strong interpersonal skills is an advantage in professional and personal lives and in this text, the author pretends that women more often possess these skills.

To begin, i think that under « interpersonal skills », that means the relationship skills, emotional intelligence, ability to listen and understand, ability to nurture talent, collaboration and partnership which are very important in business.

It cannot be denied that interpersonal skills are the ‘Master Key’ to the success of any organization and that nothing is more important than the relationship between the workers and the manager in a business environment. That's why a good manager needs good interpersonal skills to delegate or to form solid relationships.

As a consequence, lots of people think that females often make a successful manager because they are more likely to possess better interpersonal communicative skills and are biologically prepared to excel in these areas.

More than that, some people think that the sexes have distinct ways of communicating, and that men and women request action and advice differently, that their responses and timing are different, and think that they have different styles for expressing work-related demands and needs.

I cannot really accept the idea that there is difference between the ways of communicating between the sexes and in my view, it's just the most frequent result of gender stereotyping.

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