Chapter 8 7. Asking questions also requires a degree

In addition to Wang Wei's departure, in the late summer and early autumn of 2005, there is another item in Du Lala's chronicle, that is, Liszt's meritorious deeds retired with dignity, and he took his wife back to the United States. Qu Luoyi took over all of his people. . HR Director Qu Luoyi called everyone to hold a two-hour meeting, even if they were in touch, he didn't talk much at the meeting, not a word of gossip, and his attitude was neither cold nor enthusiastic, so that no one could see any tendency.He first said "WELCOME" (welcome), after "WELCOME", he said that his subordinates can talk to him about any difficulties they encounter at work, but don't give him SURPRISE (surprise) until the last moment of the stipulated deadline.These words are somewhat admonishing—although it shows that the rules are very good for newcomers, it is just the penetration of his "WELCOME" enthusiasm, and then it stays on the literal meaning of the word. They are not sure enough to determine whether Qu Luoyi's "WELCOME" also comes from his heart.Because they didn't want to touch Qu Luoyi's mind, and out of safety considerations, Tong Jiaming, Wang Hong, and even Du Lala, the three newcomers, didn't dare to say anything more.

The content of the meeting is actually very important, and the word "important" doesn't seem to carry enough weight, so we have to say "significant".Since Qu Luoyi didn't do much foreshadowing, and went directly to the topic, the lesbians who participated in the manager's meeting after the merger for the first time seemed to be guests at someone's home, and before they had time to greet each other, they immediately said, what time is breakfast, what time is lunch, what time is dinner, Don't take it for granted.Seeing that Qu Luoyi's acting style is very cool, which is quite different from Liszt's, they can't say that each of them must pay extra attention to deal with it carefully.

Qu Luoyi arranged three major projects at this meeting: One is to determine that Tong Jiaming will be responsible for the campus recruitment project, and Du Lala will assist Tong Jiaming; The second is that Qu Luoyi announced that he himself will be the project leader of DB China BROADBANDING (salary broadband system), ODC organizational strategy and development manager) Zhu Qidong and salary and benefits manager Wang Hong will jointly assist Qu Luoyi (that is, the specific work is by Xiang, Wang and Wang are here to do it, and Qu Luoyi is in charge of making the decision); The third is that the DB US headquarters decided to implement the "core force" globally. DB China intends to implement it to the second-line manager level first, and apply this to the evaluation of high-potential talents in the succession plan. Organizational strategy manager Zhu Qidong and training manager Shi and Qi are jointly responsible for leading the project.

From the perspective of the importance of the task, the status of several managers has been determined. Lala is undoubtedly the least important one. She has nothing to say about it. They have worked in HR for many years. As for her, she only got a little bit of HR experience in the past three years; what frustrates her is that in many meetings, she can only understand a noun. They didn't necessarily understand, not to mention that because Qu Luoyi was present and all the participants spoke English, it made her feel as if she had fallen into a sea of ​​clouds and mist. Fortunately, Qu Luoyi never considered assigning Lala to be in charge of a certain project. If she was really assigned to do it, she would be regarded as "dumbfounded" because she couldn't even understand it. What are you talking about?

Lala felt that she was very different from everyone else, she was so alone that she couldn't talk, and she was afraid that others would see her ignorance, so she couldn't help being so nervous that she could hear the rattling and was about to break. This is the first time for Lala to hear that DB China is going to implement BROADBANDING (salary broadband system). She can't help but secretly thank Li Wenhua. I can understand what the word BROADBANDING means.As for what this project means and where it is difficult, Lala can only point to the imagination given by her parents.Since Qu Luoyi is personally responsible for leading this project, Lala speculates that this should be the most important of the three projects.

As for the evaluation of high-potential talents, Lala has never known that the company has a SUCCESSORPLAN (referring to the successor plan for each important position of the company, which is usually highly confidential), and what kind of person can be considered a HIPO (HIGH POTENTIAL, referring to high-potential talents) ), what the evaluation criteria include, and what it means to be rated as HIPO, she has no idea. Lala was nervous when she suddenly heard Qu Luoyi asking everyone: "ANYQUESTION? ANYSUGGESTION? (Any questions? Any suggestions?)" This question is actually common in foreign company meetings. Usually, the speaker will ask the audience "ANYQUESTION, ANYSUGGESTION" after finishing what he wants to say.In China, most of the time, this is just a routine question, because most of us Chinese don’t like to speak in full view, especially in large-scale meetings, foreigners usually ask in vain, and foreigners who know China will ask no one. After the response, I very much adapted to the Chinese people and ended my speech with "If anyone thinks of something, you are welcome to communicate with me after the meeting, thank you." Although American companies attach importance to integrating into the local area, they will not give up maintaining their own American STYLE (style).

When Qu Luoyi asked everyone, Lala was taken aback and tensed up, afraid that Qu Luoyi would specifically name her and ask her any questions or suggestions, because from the beginning to the end, she was the only one. Someone who barely spoke. Lala thought guiltily, maybe Qu Luoyi has noticed that she has nothing to say.She had no suggestions, not even questions. Lala suddenly took a errand and remembered a joke, saying that there is a border inspection station, and the English of the cadres needs to be assessed. First, a questionnaire was sent to find out. There are three options listed on it, allowing everyone to choose a description that matches their English level. The first item is " Yes", the second item is "basically no", and the third item is "not at all". As a result, most of the people chose "basically no", because they all know 26 letters, which cannot be regarded as "not at all"— —Originally, Lala wouldn’t be able to “basically know”, because as far as campus recruitment is concerned, she should still be able to ask questions without obvious mistakes, and even give some clever suggestions, Just because her self-confidence was ruthlessly destroyed by such professional things as "BROADBANDING" and "SUCCESSORPLAN" (salary broadband system and succession planning), she painfully and unconsciously chose "basically not".

Du Lala, who "basically does not know how to do it", has never felt so painfully: those who have not reached a certain level of professionalism cannot even ask questions. Thanks to the training manager, Zhu Qidong, the OD manager, also worked as a training manager in the early years. As a training manager and a former training manager, they are usually the kind of people in the world who are good at asking questions and are most keen on asking questions.They always keep their backs straight, and make attractive gestures while talking, but their bodies never sway left and right, and their heads are tilted at any angle, which is just right. One millimeter more is enough, and one millimeter less is not enough. Can any of you study their movements magnified on widescreen; their eyes always make eye contact with you so naturally and intently, and the way they listen is enough in itself to have an effect on you; not just The tone of speech is neither high nor low, and most importantly, they are good at using the most talented and professional words to express themselves, not to mention the substance of their words, just such words, such body As for language, let you take 70% of it first.

Qu Luoyi answered Zhu Qidong and Shi Qi's nice, innocuous questions, and listened to two innocuous professional suggestions. He politely said "GOODQUESTION (good question)" and "GOODSUGGESTION (good advice) twice." )” and sent the managers away. Lala returned to her position tiredly, only to find that the clothes on her back were wet at some point, icy against her body.