Workplace Series: A true workplace expert, adhering to the principle can also make the boss applaud
Elephant is a successful professional manager. He has been in the business for more than ten years and has already reached the top of the company.
However, three years ago, Elephant felt too tired in the workplace and had to deal with various affairs every day, so Elephant left the company and came to a consulting company. As a consultant for three years, each project will encounter different companies, which is completely different from when I worked in companies before.
In the first two years, Elephant felt a great sense of achievement after helping the company solve problems every time.
Workplace Series: A true workplace expert, adhering to the principle can also make the boss applaud
But as more and more projects are done, Elephant begins to miss his previous corporate career. After all, he is a consultant and wanders outside all the year round. Apart from projects, the stability is too poor.
Elephant began to look for a way back to the enterprise, so he found a well-known headhunting company. Soon, the headhunting company recommended Elephant to a listed company as the vice president of management.
After meeting and chatting with Elephant, the boss recognized Elephant very much. Elephant people are real and have many successful experiences in the past. But Elephant still has some concerns. In the past three years, he has seen so many companies, and his more than ten years of corporate experience tells Elephant that cultural integration is the key to such executive positions.
Workplace Series: A true workplace expert, adhering to the principle can also make the boss applaud
Elephant himself also contacted a past client, and the client’s boss also recognized Elephant, but Elephant worried that going to be a subordinate might not be the same as being a consultant. After the relationship with the boss changes, will there be any problems? After all, when Elephant is a consultant, he can find the boss at will. When solving problems, he will stand in the position of a third party, and communication will be smooth. Elephant also knows that this boss is very strong, and the employees below can't communicate with the boss as casually as the elephant, and the boss doesn't care much about the feelings of the employees below.
Therefore, in comparison, Elephant decided to go to the listed company recommended by the headhunter.
But elephants still need some preparation.
When the boss asked Elephant for an interview for the third time, Elephant put forward a request that he should not let himself propose a substantive reform plan within half a year, but to continue the original management model according to the past habits.
After thinking over and over again, the boss agreed to the elephant's request.
And just like that, the elephant took office.
Workplace Series: A true workplace expert, adhering to the principle can also make the boss applaud
Three months have passed. Every week, the elephant will record in detail his cognition and feelings about the management system, and write a report to the boss. Evaluation.
At the weekly management meeting, the boss will ask Elephant to introduce his record for the week as Elephant's plan and summary, and several other managements gradually have an impression of Elephant.
However, the company invited Elephant to further improve the company's management. However, after three months, Elephant still continued the past practice and did not make any improvements, which made the boss anxious. There are so many problems in the company, which can be seen from the weekly work records submitted by Elephant, so the boss found Elephant, hoping that Elephant can officially take over from the fourth month and start management changes.
Elephant did not agree, he asked the boss to give him another three months.
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Workplace Series: A true workplace expert, adhering to the principle can also make the boss applaud
The boss held a separate meeting with other managements to seek opinions from other managements. The result was that everyone agreed with Elephant's work ability, but it was almost three months. Manage change.
Therefore, at the weekly management meeting, the boss directly announced that starting from next week, Elephant will officially serve as the company's vice president of management to implement management changes.
The elephant was very surprised, but in fact, in the past three months, the elephant has also completed the preparations.
For example, now that the end of the year is approaching, it will face the issue of year-end bonus distribution. The company stipulates that 10% of the profit will be withdrawn as the year-end bonus. However, there is no specific distribution method, so every time the year-end bonus is distributed, the opinions of employees are very large. Even every year, the management has to hold several days of meetings for this year-end bonus. Even Elephant knows that at each meeting, individual vice presidents even slap the table and curse, which especially affects the unity of the management.
Therefore, after the meeting, Elephant immediately submitted the year-end bonus distribution plan.
After negotiation by the management, they are satisfied with the plan submitted by the elephant.
This is the first successful case of Elephant.
Workplace Series: A true workplace expert, adhering to the principle can also make the boss applaud
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