The best person I ever worked with, understood that their soft skills were infinitely more important then their technical skills. They brought brilliant coding, architectural, and system design skills to the table. They were an amazing mentor - none of that was important.

This individual, inherently understood that the method with which they communicate, could be different for different individuals. As a result they changed their messaging, their body language, their wording, depending on with whom they communicated. They still said the same thing(s), but it was how.