Finally got the sword of Shang Fang, and Terry started the project without delay.

The project involved seven business units, each of which has its own creative strategy, marketing, public relations, and operations。。。。。 In the later stage, it also involves the training department of the participating suppliers and the legal department of the backbone support team, etc., with a rough inventory of more than 20 related teams.

With such a big project and such a big battle, Muzi is really in contact with it for the first time. Terry is responsible for the overall direction of the project, Linda is the direct person in charge of the project, and the specific things are mainly undertaken by Muzi.

The project opening meeting is a necessary link. It took Muzi a day to negotiate and confirm the time with the interface people of more than 20 teams one by one, and finally decided to hold this kick-off meeting this afternoon.

The time of the meeting is approaching, and the participants are entering the venue one after another. He has not been in the company for a long time, and he is a colleague from various teams in different business divisions, and most of Muzi people don't know each other. And people kept coming to greet Terry, and Terry walked around the various teams, greeting and communicating.

Muzi looked at Terry from afar, he seemed to like Burberry's shirts very much, well-cut, gentle, humble and gentlemanly, as if these adjectives were for Terry's life, Muzi's cheeks were crimson, what was he thinking?

Coincidentally, Terry also looked at Muzi, who quickly dodged his eyes and lowered his head to sort out the meeting sign-in sheet.

Seeing Muzi bowing his head, Terry simply led him over, followed by Lin Tao, and walked next to Muzi Terry introduced to Lin Tao: "No, this is the person you asked who posted on BBS." ”

Muzi raised his head when he heard the voice, and Terry introduced: "This is Lin Tao, senior manager of marketing and procurement of the Digital Home Appliance Division. ”

Mu Zi followed Terry's introduction and looked over, Lin Tao, in his early 30s, medium build, should like sports, dark skin, and looked slightly stronger than Terry, giving people a sunny and handsome feeling overall.

Muzi hurriedly greeted: "Hello, Lin Tao, I'm Li Muzi, you can also call me by my English name summer." ”

"I came here after reading your post, excellent. Lin Tao said directly.

Mu Zi said in a low-key manner: "Where, my post has no gold content, mainly because of the role of foreign media news posted below, which rubbed off the heat." ”

Lin Tao laughed: "It's already difficult for you to operate the post to this data, don't compare it with foreign media news, you Terry is always an old driver." “

Mu Zi looked at the two of them puzzled, with an inquiring expression.

Lin Tao reacted, maybe Muzi didn't know, and then Terry spoke: "Today's meeting time is about to start, and the specific work of the project will be mainly followed up by Muzi, and you will support it a lot." “

Lin Tao glanced at Mu Zi meaningfully and said, "No problem, I'll go sit over there, and the follow-up cooperation will be happy." “

"Okay, thanks. Muzi nodded politely.

Looking at the time, it was 2:28, Muzi confirmed to all the participants in the venue: "Colleagues, thank you very much for coming to today's meeting, you have worked hard to sign the sign-in sheet first, so that we can send the relevant meeting materials to you later." ”

When the voice landed, Muzi confirmed the sign-in sheet with the dozens of participants at the venue one by one. After a few minutes of this round.

Linda confirmed softly to Terry, "It's almost time, let's get started." ”

Terry nodded, and calmly walked to the screen in front of the venue.

Muzi dimmed the lights and then prepared the projection.

In the conference room, dozens of people sat down. It is no wonder that everyone still attaches great importance to the first kick-off meeting of such an important project.

There are more than 20 related teams, and the leaders in each team plus specific executive personnel, generally there will be two people in a team to participate, so that the number of people will not be small.

Linda looked at all the Chinese colleagues sitting in the conference room, although EB is an American-funded company, since 03 years into China, the first two years from EB headquarters in the United States also sent a lot of expatriates to work, but this group of people basically returned to China at the end of the 2-3 year term, and the majority of Chinese were recruited into the company later, and localized management is the general direction.

Generally, this kind of cross-departmental level project meeting, in order to facilitate the understanding of most people, still uses Chinese as the main language of the meeting.

So linda briefly opened the meeting in Chinese: "I believe everyone knows that the Black Friday shopping festival in the United States has brought EB sales to double for three consecutive years, and last year the United States alone achieved an amazing sales of more than 100 million US dollars; Recently, the topic of shopping festivals in China has generated hot communication and discussion on major news portals and internal BBS, and it has been unanimously approved by EB management that today's meeting is to unite everyone to plan our shopping festival in EB China. The specific details of the project have always been in charge of Li Muzi of our team, and she will introduce them to you below. “

Yesterday, it was confirmed that Muzi was in charge of the specific introduction link, and Muzi was very grateful to Linda for giving him such an opportunity to exercise, so Muzi also made full preparations.

At 10:00 p.m. last night, when he was still practicing the English and Chinese versions of the speech, Muzi whispered to Linda before starting the lecture to confirm what language to use, and Linda replied: "Use Chinese."

Muzi nodded and went on stage, the lights in the conference room had dimmed, Muzi talked attentively for two pages of PPT and then the door of the conference room was pushed open, and a person came in, a little far away, and the lights were a little dim, so Muzi didn't particularly care.

After a few more minutes, I saw that the man got up angrily, and took a person with him as he left. The sound of the door closing.

Muzi's introduction session ended successfully, and the common concern of everyone on the scene was mainly about the so-called cross-departmental project, how to balance and meet the needs of each team?

Linda thought for a moment and replied: "Seeking common ground while reserving differences, the tone is based on the interests and needs of EB China Group. The project team members are responsible for cross-team communication and coordination within the business department, including the evaluation of technical solutions selected by suppliers, the formulation of specific activity plans, marketing needs, and the production of promotional materials. “

Terry adds, "While the project is coordinated by our team, each important milestone is decided through collective decision-making. We have weekly progress updates with Peter and Alex. ”

Because it is a project approved by Peter, no one will be reckless enough to openly provoke at the scene of the thorn meeting, and the kick-off meeting is relatively smoothly held.

It was the first time to organize such a big meeting, and after the meeting, Muzi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, when Muzi returned to the office and checked the mailbox, he received a complaint email in the mailbox, which was sent directly to Bob, the HR director of DB China, and copied to Jane and Terry.

Muzi looked at the content of the email and said by name that Summer Li of EB China's marketing and purchasing department rudely used Chinese as the language of the meeting in the meeting, which was a serious disrespect for international colleagues.

Muzi only felt that his head was "booming" and all of a sudden.

Muzi suddenly remembered that when she introduced the third page of the material, a person came into the conference room, and after a few minutes, it seemed that he slammed the door again.

Linda also saw the email and reassured Muzi, "Don't worry. ”

At this time, cherry walked over and said, "Linda, Muzi, Terry, please come over for a moment." ”

The two entered Terry's office, and Terry asked directly, "Did you see the email?"

The two nodded solemnly: "I saw it." ”

Terry asked, "What do you think about this?"

Linda replied pertinently: "This person is Jacob, the creative director of marketing in the personal care division, this person has not been with him for a long time, I have dealt with him once, and I think I am American and have a natural sense of superiority in EB. At the beginning of today's meeting, I made a point to see that there was no foreign colleague in the venue, and he was late and came in after the meeting began. ”

Similar to what Terry knew, Terry then asked, "What do you think about this matter?"

Linda said a little indignantly: "Originally, it was not a big matter, if it was really because of the language problem, it could be raised on the spot, so why bother making a big fuss." ”

Terry nodded: "This project is not easy, and it is estimated that there will be many difficulties and challenges in the future, so we naturally have to think more thoroughly, but for today's matter, it is really a big fuss." ”

Terry explained: "Well, since we have been complained, we still have to give feedback." Linda, you reply to an email on behalf of the department, explain the facts, not humble or arrogant, first, Jocob is late for the meeting, and the halftime slam is the basic fact, second, this is a company-level project, everything is in the interests of the company, and third, after the meeting, we will send the meeting materials (in English), if you have any further questions, you can contact their business department's coordinator in this project, Grace or our Muzi. The meaning is expressed, and you think about the specific wording. ”

"Okay. Linda replied.

Terry does this and can read out a few things:

The first is to ask Linda to reply to the email, first, to show that Jocob's level is not enough for Terry to come out, and second, if there is a follow-up mediation, Terry still has room to move forward.

Second, if Jacob continues to complain, he will be branded as having no regard for the company's interests.

Thirdly, Terry said that if Jobob had further questions, he could contact Grace or Muzi in his division, which shows that Terry did not take this complaint seriously at all.

In this way, Terry didn't blame Muzi, and replying to the email was just a soft nail for Jocob.

Then Terry said: "The project is progressing as scheduled, and we will communicate any follow-up problems in a timely manner." ”

Although there was a reason for the incident, Muzi still felt very guilty and felt that he had messed things up: "I'm really sorry, I didn't think it through, and I didn't find out in time that Jocob entered the conference room behind and caused trouble to everyone." ”

Terry blurted out, "My people, don't need to be taught by others. ”

This sentence surprised Linda.

When Muzi heard this, he couldn't help but blush and his heart beat.

Terry, too, knew that he was speechless, coughed, and said, "Go get busy." ”