Low hanging fruit

For most technically oriented people the utility gained from adding a marginal unit of technical expertise vs a marginal unit of social effectiveness is quite clear. My attempts to proselytize this point has been met alternately with applause lights or signalling displays (if I admit that's true I'm admitting I'm not a master of socializing! etc.).

I want to outline some low hanging fruit in this space.

Concept: Fear of Confrontation

Practice: Rejection Therapy, Toastmasters

Concept: Self Consciousness

Practice: Focusing on others rather than own internal state

Concept: Body language

Practice: Eye contact, Smiling, Touching

Concept: "Nerd syndrome" Correcting people, Being a know-it-all etc.

Practice: Reminding yourself that truth is relative to goals. Rather than critiquing other's methods, figure out their goals and mention effective ways of reaching those goals when appropriate using impersonal examples. People regard critiques as personal attacks unless you have some rapport with them.

Concept: Signalling in language

here I will paste in an earlier comment from Less Wrong:

Language is not about communication of abstract concepts, it's about communication of status.

An intelligent rationalist likes to have incorrect reasoning pointed out so they can correct it. A normal person perceives corrections as an assertion of higher status.

An intelligent rationalist enjoys discussing difficult subject mater that stretches the limit of their understanding. A normal person perceives such topics as an assertion of higher status.

An intelligent rationalist is interested in pragmatic solutions to problems. A normal person uses stances on known problems to signal their social affiliations.

An intelligent rationalist explicitly reasons about social norms and ignores them when advantageous. A normal person implicitly views such behavior as signaling group disloyalty.

An intelligent rationalist values intelligence terminally (okay this isn't strictly rational, but is a common pattern). A normal person values intelligence instrumentally.

I'm sure there are many more, and you could write pages about each one, but I think this covers some broad swaths.

Practice: Still thinking about this one. Becoming status conscious is not a simple thing for people who are unaware of it.

I want to come up with more.