> Technical people often lack communication skills and can lose the forest for the trees. This is definitely an issue in my experience. There's some who can co

> Technical people often lack communication skills and can lose the forest for the trees. This is definitely an issue in my experience. There's some who can communicate well. In cases where you don't have one of them though, the solution seems like it would be a same-level or one-level-junior "PR" type individual, who helps them to hone and delivery a message. It seems incongruous that in this one (?) context, we look for general enabling skills further up the chain, rather than down the chain.