Working as business consultant, and working under enormous pressure, about three years ago, after conventional check-up whose results proved that something wrong with me: initial symptoms of hypertension, cirrhosis and hyperlipidemia. From that moment, I decided that measure must be taken to improve health and wellbeing.
作者： 远景顾问
Business consultant, focus on improving people, process and performance.
Commission for Business Consulting Project Should Revised
Business consulting company, by nature of consultancy, should advocated and influence client to adapt advance business management methodology and practice. In reality, business consulting company also face difficulty in compensation system and performance management. Due to complexity of business consultancy, some of predicament remains unsolved and serious consideration should be given.
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Why people do not share skill
Sharing working skill and knowledge in some industry, such as IT Company, Biotech Company, is of vital importance of their survive, prosperity and successful innovation. But reality of workplaces skill and knowledge sharing is discouraging and dim. In a survey conducted by our project in a hi-tech company shows that about 85% of respondent says they had never shared skill and knowledge with collogue in the past year and about 89% will not share with theirs collogue in the next year. To solve the problem, some strategy is design and implemented.
Incentive system holds immediately impact on employee’s behavior and should be examined carefully. Employee faced with great pressure of performance appraisal and force distribution is most reluctant to share their knowledge. In order to change situation of knowledge sharing, performance system should be redesigned. Sharing skill and knowledge should be included in the system, and results come from knowledge sharing should be evaluated and rewarded accordingly. Other incentive system also should be close look at, such as compensation system. Now existing compensation system encourages selfness and egoism, new system should be introduced, and employee should be pay not only according to their diplomas or qualification, but to their authentic contributions to company’ successful innovation.
Mentorship impact skill and knowledge formation, the skillful and seasoned should take responsibility of mentoring green hand and guide their vocational growth according to company’ strategy. If implemented successful, mentorship system can benefit both mentor and mentee, and helpfully can establish knowledge sharing culture. The difficulty of mentorship system is to evaluate mentorship result and effectiveness, both in term of individual and organizational level.
For sunrise industry, working place learning and knowledge sharing is crucial factor for survive and sustainable growth, new methodology and practice should be introduced to encourage and guarantee knowledge sharing among employee and foundation of incentive system should be revised according to new embarrassment encounter in knowledge times and knowledge workforce.
Communication Aspect of Change Management
Change management involves people to modify and adapt something new and different, but first, they must informed about reason, direction and way to change. In change management process, communication becomes crucial and center, open communication system can facilities the whole process. On the contrary, without formal communication mechanism, grapevine and rumor will prevailing, in the end, change process jeopardizes productivities of whole enterprise.
For business consultant in change management project, some tacit can help establishing communication system which can insure smoothly transformation.
Report Process: Before project launch, designing clearly path way of reporting is necessary and requisite. Generally, change management project impact whole system, and should be reported according to firm hierarchy system. Carefully design meetings with functional manager, pay attention to and listen carefully to their demand, emotional appeal can make project ran smoothly. During communications with functional manager, consultant face with problem of information overload, and should distinguish between usefully and wasted ideas. From reporting process, consultant should draw basic conclusions and verified by data analyzed.
Decision Process: After reporting to functional manager, and change strategy designed, consultant will involve themselves in decision process. Finding economic buyer and find their preference is of vital importance. Step by step buy in higher officers before reporting can insure there is no discrepancy between them and makes reporting easy and discussion free. For argument and debate in meeting means extra work and risks for consultant.
Propaganda Tacit: Change management project with aim to modify and mobilize all people involved, so propaganda strategy should be given special consideration. Like commercial promotion, consultant should use all resource available, internal meeting, email, and social media, to clearly deliver messages of change direction, purpose and relevant benefit. Message should be realistic and without exaggeration. Some special group whose interesting is impacted by change process should be given extra consideration and design special method and way of communication.
Success of change management project depend on many factors, but communication play large part of it, without system thinking and designing of communication system, change management project is bound to fail.
Employee Engagement Reality
Employee engagement is the extent to which employees feel passionate about their jobs, are committed to the organization, and put discretionary effort into their work. Employee engagement is key factor directly impact enterprise productivity. For merging and high tech industry, employee engagement matters for: whose nature of job needs employee engaged and exerted great effort, and employee needs to be mature and be skillful in their position. Even though employee engagement matters, reality of employee engagement is disappointing.
应对面试的技巧
在职业生涯过程中，面试是必须要经历的，无论是毕业找工作，或是在工作岗位上，有晋升的机会时，都要经历面试的环节。掌握一定的应对面试的技巧，有利于在职业生涯中抓住有利的机会，使自己获得更大的发展机会。从2011年作为面试官多次参与校园招聘面试、后备干部选拔面试、职位竞聘面试，发现许多应试者不是因为本身能力不够失败的，而是因为面试经验不够被淘汰的，总结自己作为面试官的经验，给在人生关键点上的应聘者一点参考意见。
Rethink about performance management at individual level
Individual level performance management is the most difficult task managers have to be faced, not only to mention hardship of recognizing performance, but also how to rate employee and compensate them accordingly. When performance rate result must be used as evidence of promotion or incentive compensation plan, greatest confrontation and contradiction merging from rating process.
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邛海游记
每个人生命中都有一些对美好地方的记忆，邛海无疑是我生命中最美好的地方之一，它如同我生命中的保护神一样，静静的流淌在时间与记忆之中。
邛海如同一颗璀璨的蓝宝石镶嵌在安宁河谷的底部，走进邛海公园，放眼望去，烟波浩渺的湖面呈现在你的眼前，湖水清澈透亮，远处的群山倒影在清澈的水中，活脱是一幅价值连城的山水画。
How to deal with middle managers fears during organizational change?
Organizational change is complex and painful process. Working as consultant in change management project, dealing with middle managers fears and resistance, we find some programmatic way to handle this problem and makes change process less difficulty and less painful.
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About Yoga in my life
When I was fifteen years school boy, by pure chance, began to get acquaintance with Yoga and from that time started to practice both Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga. More than thirty years from then, when retrospect, Yoga deeply influence my heart and life, guides me through all kind of difficulty and hardship.