"There are more important endeavor perfect performance"
His Work / / December 26, 2019
Dmitry Kolpakov
A leading marketer of search engine promotion company in Thailand. Also the creator of the service UrlUtm.ru (UTM-linker tag).
Creative motivation strongest
It is believed that there are two kinds of motivation: using the stick and the carrot. But both these motivations are not very popular.
There are more accepted doing things you love and enjoy it in the moment, rather than wait for some sverhvoznagrazhdeny.
I call it creative motivation. Writers and artists created their masterpieces thanks to her, not out of fear or in the hope of getting something.
Therefore, managers are looking for fans of his craft. By the way, this time you will find out for interviews in many companies.
Engage in what like - is in Asia traditions. Locals can be happy without a lot of money, it has always been a great surprise to the more affluent nations.
Base and bonus money
Obsession with money is not here, because of the social status is not measured. Money is primarily needed to meet basic needs.
Money is also not customary to show off and somehow demonstrate their
financial well-being - it is considered immodest and vulgar. Therefore, trying on the external attributes to determine the position of an employee in a company, you are likely to go wrong.Bonus money many people are not very motivated, because they are primarily looking for companies, where they can engage in interesting projects, work with good coaches and develop their skills.
Loyalty and Leadership
In Thailand, a clear hierarchy really: if you are a leader, you lead, you take on the risk and responsibility. If you are a subordinate, you are loyal, you will have chosen their leader and develop under his leadership.
If you call any Thai company and say what you like their product, then most likely, you will be invited for an interview. Of course, this is not the only criteria for evaluating candidates, but if you're already a fan of the company's product, the initial selection had already passed.
In job advertisements rarely indicate salary to get applications only from loyal candidates who choose a company by name, rather than on wages. This is especially true for large companies, but startups will try to lure salaries.
Received an invitation for an interview, be sure to check out the company's website, learn its history. If a potential employer will notice that you have not paid attention to this, it means that you are not interested in the company and with you there is no reason to work.
Skill - it is a social status
The measure of social status appears here mastery in any craft, with which people associate themselves and what they plan to teach their children.
Therefore, it is a common phenomenon - the director, well aware of the details of the production of the goods, as well as the characteristics of competing products.
In IT companies usually all founding director is divided between sectors of activity: web development, marketing and production of the product (if it is offline products or services).
It focuses on business cards. They should be in a nice business card holders, they must be properly propose and implement. Business card in any case should not be wrinkled or stained - it is perceived as disrespect for his office.
The main work - the mood
There is a popular saying:
"Good things do only in a good mood."
The logic of this is simple: life - this is an endless path along which better and more enjoyable to go with a smile, than to try to get something by sacrificing their sources of joy.
Propensity to exchange smiles you will see anywhere. It is in Asia were invented stickers for instant messengers and even here people are very often communicate via video, to see the facial expressions of each other.
Also in Thailand, a lot of fun and a lot of advertising in film comedies.
I made for myself concluded that, if you do not smile, others will think with you that something is wrong, and are unlikely to want to work with you. Therefore, it is always better to show a good mood.
Of course, any roughness completely ruled out, and this is the logic. Rude to someone, the manager may, and will achieve its short-term goals, but the hurt employee and kill in him the motivation to work from the heart.
Initially, employees, and only then customers
In the companies in Thailand in the first place attention is paid to its own employees, and only then - the customers.
This can be seen by the desire of many managers to make large and comfortable recreation room with games consoles, comfortable ottoman, table tennis and so on.
Also, companies are looking to invest in education and leisure of its employees. Perhaps this is why the Thais are not inclined to frequently change jobs.
Effort is more important than perfect performance
Errors are treated as a natural stage of growth.
Quite often, the picture at the meetings: participants actively share its many failures, showing how they tried to come to the goal, trying different options.
Quickly move forward with a lot of mistakes - it's more natural than perfect execution and perfectionism.
This approach is to be welcomed, since failure occur at different stages, and the error is usually not repeated twice - and it means that there is a natural process of development of team skills.
There is a clear separation between sterile criticism and recommendations: if a person expresses his dissatisfaction with something, but can not offer a way to solve the problem, its opinion is not taken into account.
The logic is simple: if you can not offer an improvement, do not disturb those who are actually doing something.
Control is not the people, and their results
The Thai office, you can see how the employees during working hours talk animatedly, watch movies and play games. However, they are quite effective, because it's resting between tasks.
Executives look at it with the understanding and control only the result or the efforts of employees, and as an employee relaxes - this is a private matter.
Here one might ask, what does the head, if his staff are autonomous?
All leaders - these are the best experts, and they perform the most difficult tasks of their units. Managers who are engaged only in the management team, are a rarity. So managers without experience in their professional field, it will be very difficult to find work.
Exchange and hard work
The entire economy is based on the exchange, other ways of making money are unpopular. People usually do not look for ways to make money lungs, do not jump between the different areas, and certainly not associated with crime.
Labor education is based on the hard work, which is due to historically: Asia was the poorest region and the locals had to work sometime in the fields in quite difficult conditions.
Of course, to produce a low-quality product - it is simply short-sighted. Work with a company that has a bad reputation in the local market, no one will.
Food - is not only a need, but also part of the culture
The first thing that shocked Europeans first arrived in the Thai office - a large furnished dining areas.
I think so executives again showing concern for employees who do not distract the thought of hunger who do not have to stand in line and buy chocolates as a result of earning gastritis and losing efficiency.
Holidays and monthly meetings in the company can not do without a buffet with lots of food.
There is a bonus system: the best employees or departments who have reached high levels, can obtain certificates on a hike in the sushi bar.
Time - a secondary resource
In Western culture, it made to treat the time as the most important resources: time - money. But let me give you a couple of examples from the business when you do not need to hurry.
The European company has come to introduce us their product marketing. The entire presentation - a monologue at maximum speed. Not paying attention to the questions of the audience, the seller in a hurry to give everything he learned. It becomes immediately obvious that he is simply not prepared adequately to the fundamental questions that, obviously, it will be asked.
Another frequently occurring situation - the invitation of potential partners for lunch. It is a tradition that understands not everyone. For fans save time is a vain waste it, so they either refuse (and lose a client immediately), or immediately begin to talk about the case, not waiting, when the Asian partner he will go to work on after the secular conversations.
Hurry, save time, but lost a customer - is it worth it?
More can recall many examples of artist productivity drops sharply if he is not feeling well or have a concern. Therefore, in many situations, it is not critical, especially when in the pursuit of them suffer from other resources.
Output
Asia - a very fast-growing region. Combining tradition with modern technology, Asian companies have become leaders in many markets. Wherein a plurality of the above things have long been used by the major Western companies, such as Apple, Facebook, Google and others.
I think we should look at this new trend - a mixture of Western and Eastern business practices.