Chapter 43 Visa Turmoil
After this weekend, Yin Jie was more cautious when facing Ning Haoran.
Bella saw it in her eyes, knowing that Yin Jie had noticed something, and she was relieved, but she was still vaguely uneasy.
Yin Jie was thinking about He Yuxin's advice to her.
How can you be unique?
How can I become the one recognized by LS?
Her knowledge of LS was limited to the information instilled in Erdmann's training, and it was not easy to analyze the management model of LS based on it. Then, we can only start with uniqueness.
What are LS's requirements for itself?Top 1, make results, complete project KPIs;Top 2, maintain the efficiency of the team, and improve the competitiveness of the team as much as possible.
Yin Jie is confident that he will achieve KPIs this year. When it comes to maintaining and improving team productivity, that's about team building and management.
I remember a famous entrepreneur once said that systematic team management either starts from the beginning of team building and continues to do it uninterruptedly, until it becomes bigger and stronger, and finally can be invincible in the competition. Or don't do it at all, focus on short-term benefits, and improve your ability to deal with random problems. Of course, the latter is suitable for small and micro enterprises that seize market opportunities to make quick money. But even this method is better than the team's system management at the beginning and not being able to stick to it.
What is the mode of management of the LS China team?
In Yin Jie's view, the core of small team management has two levels: the first is to lead the team to achieve small goals and achieve small successes, so as to effectively inspire morale, gather centripetal force, and forge the overall work efficiency of the team. The second is to create opportunities for team members to grow in their personal skills and professional experience.
In the first layer of management, Yin Jie believes that she has the necessary insight, is sensitive enough to market opportunities, has the corresponding business capabilities and experience, and is also good at building networks, so she is very confident that she can successfully complete it.
In the second layer of management, the LS China team is under the dual jurisdiction of Ning's Planning and LS Headquarters at the same time, and Yin Jie thinks that there is not much room for his own operation. Therefore, in her view, there is only one management method that can be implemented and effectively achieved in such a gap: empowerment.
The premise of empowerment is the selection of qualified talents. Therefore, it is important to set the conditions for recruitment. If another Christina or another forest tenure is hired, no amount of opportunities will be created to help the team achieve their goals;
The means of empowerment is to "use, educate and retain" in project practice, set effective collaboration rules, create enough project opportunities, and give enough guidance and development space, so that if it is really a talent, it can grow. and then retain talents through compensation and team building;
The core of empowerment lies in the setting of rules, and reasonable rules can effectively avoid conflicts of interest, and help build a team that is both flexible and efficient.
The current LS China team, after eliminating Christina, who will pollute the team atmosphere, and Lin Quan, who is not clear-headed, can formulate strategies as team leaders to lead everyone to achieve their goals, "workplace old scalper" Flora works hard and conscientiously, Summer has an overseas study and life background, and is also good at using his brain to improve work efficiency, so it can be said that he has the initial conditions to build a team.
Just when Yin Jie was thinking about starting the systematic management of the team, the April delegation to country S for a business investigation had already taken shape. In addition to Ning Haoran and Yin Jie, there were 18 people in the delegation, of which 10 were from the participating companies of the Nanjing Conference, and the other 8 were from enterprises in Beijing, Zhejiang and Guangdong. After the list of personnel was settled, Yin Jie gave Flora and Summer a targeted training, authorizing them to be responsible for communicating with the participants and coordinating the materials used for visas.
The visa information of the participants is gradually being couriered. Yin Jie repeatedly emphasized that the work of the two must be meticulous, and the time arrangement must be in a hurry and not delayed. The two of them agreed obediently on their faces, but when they came down, they both felt that they were being nagged a little headache.
Yin Jie is talking about this because she is about to travel to South China for two consecutive weeks, visiting several local leading industrial companies to promote the European expansion model of setting up a European business control center in Haosen Prefecture. Before leaving, she looked at Flora's work status uneasily, and found that she had printed the list of visa documents on A4 paper, pasted it into the partition of her workstation, and was sorting out the documents one by one according to the list.
Yin Jie couldn't help but be happy.
This style is really Mrs. Flora, which is completely typical of the old scalper style.
In view of Flora's infrequent low-level mistakes in her past work, Yin Jie repeatedly instructed her to check carefully, and at the same time asked Summer to help her review. After both of them replied in the affirmative, Yin Jie took a car to the airport. Pearl Electric in Zhuhai was the main target of the trip, and she planned to stay in Zhuhai for 3-4 days, visiting local government departments and several local businesses arranged in advance, before heading to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Shunde.
Two weeks later, on the day Yin Jie returned to the imperial capital, he took a taxi directly from the airport to the office. Early that morning, her right eye was beating vigorously, and she was inexplicably panicked.
It's almost time to get off work, and Flora is the only one working on the beautiful LS "office island". Flora was surprised to see her come in.
"Why are you here? It's almost time to get off work. ”
"I'm not worried. What about Summer? She's off work early?"
"Her mother was sick, and on the third day after you left, she received a call and asked Mr. Ning for leave to go back to her hometown to take care of her mother. ”
"Why didn't you tell me about those phone calls? You're working alone these days?"
"It's not a lot of work. Flora scratched her head modestly, "I can handle it alone." ”
She's still humble!
Yin Jie patiently asked her to talk about the visa declaration.
"Everyone's visa materials have arrived. I double-checked that the information on the list was ready. Travel insurance, air tickets, and accommodation reservations are issued by the bank. Zhongxing is a travel agency specializing in European travel projects, and has a lot of experience in European travel. Ning's previous European tour of Chinese music has always been undertaken by Zhongxing Travel Agency.
"Have you carefully checked the visa information of the participants? I mean the content, whether everything should be filled in, whether there is any mistake in the content, the signature is compared with the signature on the last page of the passport, and whether the letter of introduction from the unit is written in accordance with our requirements? Is there any ?... ...omission to change the official seal?"
"There is certainly no shortage of information right now. I combed through the visa list 3 times, and I made up for the shortcomings. The signatures were also checked one by one, and the letters of introduction were written in the format we gave. I took a general look at the application form, and there should be no problem with the contents. “
"Double-check the application form and see that Form 304 is the most error-prone. Yin Jie was even more irritable in his heart. She hung her trench coat on a coat rack. Let Flora divide the information into parts and help check it herself.
Sure enough, an error was found on the Form 304 of Ding Yi, the general manager of the Soviet Union-the applicant's English name was spelled inconsistently!
It was close to seven o'clock in the evening, and Yin Jie didn't have time to say anything to blame, so he started to review all the information that Flora had checked. Flora blushed and moved the personnel information that had been packed in a plastic file bag to Yin Jie's hand, picked up the information that Yin Jie had read and reviewed it again, and bagged it again after review.
The two were busy until about 8 o'clock. Fortunately, only Ding Yi had a problem with his information. There are five places in the 304 application form where the name needs to be filled in, and two are misspelled: the name should be spelled "Yi Ding" and the wrong spelling is "Ye Ding".
Flora stood pitifully in front of Yin Jie with red eyes, and whispered that this was the information she had reviewed herself, and Summer had not handled it.
"The appointment to submit documents at the embassy is 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. She said sneeringly.
Yin Jie hated the iron and gave her a burst and asked her to contact the customer immediately.
The English name in the application materials is misspelled, or the name on the declaration form does not match the invitation letter, or the name is written incorrectly in the certificate of the unit... These are common mistakes made in visas, but they are also details that visa officers never overlook. The seniors who have been involved in this kind of thing have shown up with countless tears to say that this kind of mistake must not be made. If such a mistake occurs, if the visa officer is kind enough, he may simply send it back and ask for a new form and submit it, which is the best outcome. If the visa officer is stricter, it is entirely possible to directly stamp the visa refusal.
What if the material happens to Barzel?
The phone was quickly connected, and Ding Yi seemed to be participating in an important event, and his tone was quite unhappy when he was disturbed. After Yin Jie explained the matter clearly in a few words, he agreed to fill in the form again and sign it before sending someone to take a late flight. Before Yin Jie could say "Thank you for your understanding", the phone was hung up impatiently.
Yin Jie let out a long sigh of relief and leaned back in his chair. Flora cautiously handed her a glass of boiling water.
"Evita," she said timidly, "what if it doesn't arrive tomorrow morning?"
"What do you want to say?"
"I mean, we can still put this information in. If the new materials don't arrive tomorrow morning, we can send them in for the time being. I checked twice and didn't find a problem, and the visa officer won't necessarily find it. Even if you find out, don't you have a good relationship with the visa office?
Yin Jie smiled bitterly in his heart. Barzel's incident made him understand what Ning Haoran had said: In the embassy, not everyone is Erdmann's friend.
The complaint letter incident has just ended, how can she be willing to take such a risk again?
"That's a dangerous thing to think, Flora. You must understand that business and visa work are completely separate in principle. The visa work of embassies and consulates is not allowed to suffer any interference, which is an iron law and a working principle. We should never touch such a minefield. Instead of thinking about exploiting loopholes, you might as well hurry up and call Ding Yi's assistant, get the contact information of the employee who sent the information, and keep in touch with him to get the information as soon as possible. ”
Flora communicated with Ding Yi's assistant according to her words, and it was not until around 10 o'clock that she got the name and phone number of Xiao Liu, the person who delivered the materials, and successfully contacted him. The two agreed to hand over to the Ning family early the next morning.
The two went downstairs and drank a bowl of hot noodle soup at a nearby restaurant before going home.