воскресенье, 26 декабря 2010 г.
Women on top
The duration of the record – 18 minutes.
I had to listen to this podcast twice - the second time helped me to understand some words which were difficult for me in the first listening.
I had to listen to this podcast twice - the second time helped me to understand some words which were difficult for me in the first listening.
The question of difference between male and female style of managing was always very popular. One of the most widespread opinions is that perfect bosses are men. According to one research companies run by women are more likely to fail then those one which are run by men.
But what women should do to break down this stereotype? It is said that women are more "outcome orientated". And if it is true how should they behave in the male world?
I liked Nikki King’s interview in this podcast. This woman is managing director of Isuzu Truck in Britain, she started her career in 40. At first it was difficult for her to make workers to take her seriously, but one day spent in the factory changed everything. She and 3 her male colleagues were in the factory in Japan. It was strange in this country to see female boss, and especially they were surprised when she decided to examine trucks. She jumped in the cab in stiletto heels and roared away, test driver was terrified. When she came back there were 60 Japanese colleagues instead of 6 Japanese before. Thereby she gained the respect of her colleagues.
To be successful women should feel confidence, they have a lot of skills but most of them use them to be a secretary. We need to try to do something different, read books and another literature. To run company is like to bring up children, and to win the sympathy of these “children” you shouldn’t tell them simple “love me”, it doesn’t work. You should find another way.
четверг, 14 октября 2010 г.
Young, talented and unemployable
This time I’ve listened to the audio called “Young, talented and unemployable”. Here is a reference - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009xbbp. The duration of the record is 18 minutes.
I had to listen to the record twice – the first time 90-95% of the information was accessible for me, the second time helped me to understand almost all words and phrases which I couldn’t understand during the first listening.
This audio was very interesting for me as we all will face difficulties in finding work, so we need to know what skills the companies require and what kind of education we need. The chief executive of Manpower told the main characteristics: experience, ability, productivity. There is a widespread opinion that young people are cheaper, but it’s not true. Of course some companies try to save money cutting the salary for us, but now this tendency is going away. Another problem is that the government doesn’t support forward-looking companies which really try to involve young people into working process.
In any case it’s not easy to get job. We need to study more and more. For example, in India companies face a lack of suitable candidates – there are a lot of unemployed people, but almost all of them are not well trained. One of the problems is that they still use information system of the past, not of the current times. This system hasn’t changed during 30 years.
In Cambodia every year a hundred thousand young people enter the job market and it’s struggle for many to find work. Many companies are disappointed with the job applicants; young people don’t have realistic expectations about their future job. Everyone wants to be a manager but they don’t imagine what skills are needed. Almost everyone needs further trainings and courses. Many business and management graduates before they are ready to work need to learn a lot – from language skills to the base of business.
And in my opinion people face this problem not only in Cambodia, we all after our education are not ready to work, we have to study more a lot to become real specialists.
воскресенье, 3 октября 2010 г.
How to win friends and influence people
I have listened to the podcast “How to win friends and influence people”. You can find it here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p008ww0k
The duration of this record is 18 minutes. During the first listening I understood 75-80% of the information; the second listening was more effective. The main problem of misunderstanding was fluent English, also there were some new words, which I hadn’t heart before.
The audio is divided to three parts - a course in 'ultimate violence' in the city of London and Rio Tinto's CEO Tom Albanese on market power and China and the most interesting for me part - how to communicate better and boost your confidence. There were a lot of interesting examples, which I’d like to share with you.
Everything we do is based on our cultural differences. For example, in some countries we encourage people to shake hands, but in Japan it would be outrageously. In Britain to win friends and influential people we have to be pushy, an American idea is to be exposed. In Poland if you smile at someone who has introduced to you, they’ll think you are crazy and something is wrong with you.
The main idea is that we need to get people used to dealing with other people. Nowadays people feel much more comfortable looking at computer screens or mobile phones, so we lose the ability to communicate face-to-face. There was a very interesting training. A large bank in London has a lot of branches all over the world, particularly in South Arabia. The photos of how people work were made both in Arabia and London. In London people smiled a bit, were respectful and official, they were contrasted with Arabian. It was a very effective way of training, so people in Arabia were able to change their behavior and be much more officiant to much more customers.
It was interesting for me to listen to this record, because there were a lot of real situations which can happen in the life of every person.
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