healthy career development

In just 20 years, BenQ has grown from a single manufacturing company with a turnover of less than 100 million yuan to a huge enterprise group with a total revenue of more than 5 billion US dollars. BenQ is its own Handed in a nice transcript. Behind this achievement is the corporate culture of "being practical, pursuing excellence, and paying attention to society" and the high-quality manager team it has cultivated. Sun Shichang is one of the representatives of this team.

Five years ago, Sun Shichang joined BenQ from front-line recruitment. He served as the human resources director of the affiliated company Marsh Technology, and the senior consultant of BenQ's software management and development center. After BenQ's layout in the mainland, he served as BenQ Dentsu's China Marketing Director of Human Resources Department of the R&D Center of the Headquarters. His development benefited from BenQ's rapid growth, he said: "BenQ's products from the initial peripheral products to today's products cover 3C fields such as digital media, computer systems, network communications and optical storage, which provides me with a career development. There is no ceiling, and the corporate atmosphere of pursuing excellence allows me to work and grow happily here."

Sun Shichang understood the way of healthy career development from the connotation of BenQ culture: integrity builds personal and corporate reputation; positive Prepare, consolidate the career pyramid; modesty makes progress; foresight and perseverance. These have benefited him a lot.

Integrity builds personal and corporate credibility

Fred Bucy, former president of Texas Instruments, put forward ten criteria when talking about selecting senior executives, including innovation ability, profitability, willingness to take risks, etc. , among the ten items, integrity ranks first. Sun Shichang used the example of Wei Yan in the Three Kingdoms period to illustrate that the integrity of smart people is especially important. Wei Yan was a general of the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period and was used by Liu Bei. However, he is proud of his talents. Although he has repeatedly made military exploits and has outstanding performance, his values are not in line with the organization he is in, and he later raises troops to rebel. In the same way, some managers, especially top managers, have good performance, but the philosophy, values and company are different, and he will eventually take away the entire team. This kind of person is not the "smart person" BenQ needs, so even if the advantages are outstanding, BenQ will not hire them.

Just as untrustworthy parents cannot establish prestige in front of their children, a dishonest organization or supervisor will also lose the trust, commitment and effort of employees, affect performance and accelerate the demise of the organization. BenQ puts forward that honesty is the core of corporate culture. At the level of personal growth, insisting on honesty requires employees to have upright character and conduct, not to falsify, to present the truth, and to make every effort to accomplish what they promise. Because BenQ employees have the foundation of integrity, teamwork can be open and honest, team communication can speak freely, and everyone cooperates sincerely to maximize benefits. As a responsible enterprise, BenQ chooses to take the value of integrity as the core, decides to choose suppliers and partners based on this standard, and leads the public on the road of integrity by example. To exert a positive influence on the society with integrity, and play the most important value of the enterprise.

Being a person beforehand, no matter how much a person achieves, character is the first, and integrity is the first element of character. Sun Shichang himself likes to do things frankly and honestly. Three months before he came to the mainland from Taiwan, the most work he did was communication. He communicated with the heads of various departments, "What do I want to do, what do you think?" Colleagues in mainland China gradually got to know him, saw that their suggestions were seriously considered and adopted, felt his sincerity and integrity, the team gradually gathered, and morale was high. As a manager, he knows that integrity requires long-term maintenance and management. Only by maintaining his own reputation can he achieve sustainable success. Leading by example is a prerequisite for others to build trust in you.

Actively prepare and consolidate the career pyramid

When challenging a new job, most people are not enough to judge whether they can do it or not based on their past abilities, and some people will hesitate at such a critical moment. Those who are good at grasping opportunities believe in themselves, do not shy away from seemingly difficult goals, pour out great enthusiasm, and study wholeheartedly. In this process, their abilities have been unexpectedly improved. From the moment Sun Shichang entered BenQ, he unknowingly adjusted his work to the "future progress" state. On the premise of doing his job well, he was fully prepared for new opportunities that he might encounter in the future.

Sun Shichang is good at doing corporate culture projects, but he also has the experience of rebirth after suffering. He was once assigned to do human resources projects for the entire company, and he found himself unable to finish working until two or three o'clock every night. He was once a little discouraged, but his beliefs supported him to persevere, and finally enhanced his self-confidence with high-quality work results. Although the process was difficult, he felt very benefited.

Being competent at the current job and thinking about the jobs that can be undertaken in the future has become a main line of Sun Shichang's career development. When he is good at doing projects, he will think about how he should prepare if he accepts bigger challenges. What if you were a human resources executive? The process of thinking is also the process of finding answers. It helps you to think divergently and work hard to learn to obtain various resources, so that you will be fully prepared when the opportunity arises. Another example is that he is the human resources supervisor of the affiliated company Datrust Technology. He is competent for the human resources management work of a small unit. He will think about what to do if he has the opportunity to do a large unit and a group-based national enterprise human resources work. ? "Improve your skills reserves every day. When the opportunity comes, you can quickly grasp it and quickly open a new situation."

Sun Shichang admitted frankly that he could not accurately judge where the next position was. But what can be grasped is to actively prepare, whether horizontally or vertically, lay a solid foundation for the career pyramid, and when the opportunity comes, you will stand out. His experience in human resources work is that in addition to his major, he needs to learn some marketing knowledge. When he was the HR director of Marsh Technology, he learned some knowledge from the personnel in R&D and material departments. He asked himself not only to understand the company's products, but also to understand the production and marketing process of the products, so as to fully understand and convey the value of the brand. Only by understanding the surface and internal factors of the product can human resources select the right person to match the right position. Sun Shichang said that when preparing, you don't have to be so purposeful. It's like building a pyramid. You stack it next to you and stack it on top. The professional foundation will be more solid, and the knowledge will be more comprehensive. "The foundation of your career pyramid is thick, and the only way you can develop your career is to accumulate and grow healthily."

Modesty makes progress

Sun Shichang admires the fifth-level leaders described in the book "From Good to Great" because their success comes from a mixture of modest character and strong Professional will two factors. A humble personality determines that you can listen to the opinions of others, adjust and improve yourself, and a humble personality allows you to surpass your own limits and constantly improve your abilities.

Among BenQ's 14,000 employees today, there are countless examples of how humility makes progress. "An employee joined BenQ after graduating from college. He first engaged in front-line work in storefront service and dealer service. His work attitude was very serious and his performance was outstanding. Later, he was sent to work on peripheral products, and his results were still very eye-catching. He was promoted to Northeast China. After becoming the regional director, through his hard work, the Northeast region ranked first in the country in terms of sales. He was transferred to the Shanghai region where the ranking was not good before, and after a year of hard work, the ranking continued to climb to a front position. I and During his communication, he found that he was very humble, and he never thought he was great just because he was the first. When others took him as a role model and learned from him, he saw that he still had a lot of problems. Always trying to improve." Sun Shichang said.

“There is another sales executive. The company sets the sales target for him. He will not conservatively think that the target is too high, but will break it down step by step. He is down-to-earth, not only shouting slogans. He was ranked second in his performance. As soon as he saw the strengths and advantages of others, he immediately introduced suitable ones and implemented them in place. Because he has a humble personality and can judge himself very modestly, he can always go up. ."

BenQ company implements a strong performance appraisal, which is assessed twice a year. If a manager or employee is satisfied with his own performance, he will have a bottleneck in his development, and the assessment report in the Certain indicators can directly reflect these situations. Sun Shichang can often judge whether he is humble and how capable he is by the description of his work.

As the director of human resources, Sun Shichang is most worried that employees feel complacent and lose their humble attitude, because the people who joined BenQ through strict interviews are very smart and their learning ability is not inferior to employees of other excellent companies. , but lack of humility and an unhealthy state of mind will prevent them from doing other things. He vividly compared knowledge and skills to abundant food on the plate, saying that there is a lot of food, but if employees say they are not hungry, they will not take the initiative to improve themselves and miss the opportunity to develop themselves.

In addition, Sun Shichang observed that some employees do not have a long-term development direction and often change their career direction at will, which is very unfavorable to his personal development. For example, Sun Shichang said that he is engaged in human resources work, and learning about marketing, manufacturing, and research and development is to expand his knowledge. The purpose of learning is to make your profession stronger. "Some people jump to become lawyers and then jump to other professions, and their ability cannot be accumulated. This is also a big problem in their development."

Foresight and perseverance

Those who achieve great things often It is a model of hard work and forging ahead. Sun Shichang said: "The development of BenQ has a lot to do with President Li Yao. He has a tenacious, professional, and humble personality." The 53-year-old Li Yao has many firsts in Taiwan's corporate world: in 1994, he also Not many Taiwanese companies have ventured into telecommunications. He was the first to lead BenQ into telecommunications and to develop and manufacture mobile phones by himself; in 1996, he was the first to invest heavily in the TET-LCD industry; in 1998, he was the first to set up a factory in Suzhou, the mainland. In 2008, he was the first to give up his original brand and founded the brand BenQ.

Li Yao's decision was bold and advanced. Investing in mobile phones is because he is optimistic that this is a product that BenQ can live on in the next ten or twenty years. At that time, there were fierce internal and external opposition, because investment means investing the money earned from peripheral products into mobile phones. Business, if it fails, the loss will be great. However, BenQ persisted for 7 years, from the manufacture, research and development of mobile phones, to the maturity of core technologies. After the hardships, the harvest was a lot of fruits. This year, BenQ acquired Siemens' global mobile phone business, ushering in a more important development opportunity for BenQ's mobile phone business. In 1996, Li Yao decided to make TET-LCD panels. At that time, there were different doubts inside and outside, but he believed that in the future video trend, thin and light TVs would definitely become the mainstream, and the investment in this industry was even more amazing, reaching BenQ. 4 times the amount of capital, but he still insisted on doing it. Facts have proved the correctness of his judgment, and the current turnover of AUO, which produces panels, has also exceeded the imagination at the time.

Foresight is not a day's work, but perseverance is a hard work. For his choice, Li Yao has no hesitation, whether it is in his career or his own career development. In 1992, Mr. Shi Zhenrong invited him to return to Acer again. At that time, he offered him two opportunities for personal development, including inviting him to be the general manager of Acer's computer division, or to establish a new company, BenQ. The former seems to be a bright and smooth road, the latter is an uncertain future. However, he decided to go to BenQ, chose to start a new business, and insisted that the base would be operated separately from Acer in the future. He believes that if BenQ, as a child, has always been supported by its parent company, Acer, it must not grow well. At that time, many senior executives objected. Their question was, how can BenQ live without Acer? But he still persevered, starting from the construction of the team, and leading BenQ into new development areas step by step, from foundry to the creation of its own brand, from peripherals to entering mobile phones, TET-LCD panels and many other new businesses. As a "preacher" of BenQ's corporate culture, Li Yao is not satisfied with the status quo, he is determined to forge ahead, and in the face of risks and opportunities, he makes bold decisions. His perseverance, perseverance, self-confidence and optimistic attitude let us see the birth of a world-class Chinese brand. of hope.