Talk:Doing business/@comment-87.108.22.140-20140115134638

Hello!

 I would like to share my experience of my work as managing director in one of the practice enterprises in Helsinki Business College. And I hope that my opinion can show you what can be learned by participating in this exciting project like the student practise enterprise.

   I did a lot of work being responsible for final result of team work despite the fact that not all members of the team are making equal efforts to achieve it. My first task was to organize the work of the team to obtain the best possible result. And secondly I consult and support everyone in my team. You should be multi-functional and multi-task to correct and level the results of all team members. My work is invisible, but without this work it is hard to achieve a collective result.

   I have learnt how to spread a performing of one big task between team members, separating several subtasks and then connecting them to the overall result.

 I have learnt how to organise my team for the events which are important for a company (open doors, different kinds of fairs, presentations of the company). I ha ve learnt about working at the company stand during the exhibition, how to attract potential customers, how to communicate with them. I have learnt how to make promotional material for any fair: brochures, posters, Power Point presentations and also ordering forms and receipts.

 I have learnt something about price policy of company relating to such kind of events like exhibition.

 I have learnt how to communicate successfully with team members. I tried different formats for regular team meetings and concluded what would be more successful for this particular team.

 I was able to be responsible for the company overall result without thinking of my personal time and well-being.

 I have learnt about the financial indicators: break-even point, cash flow, income statement, bookkeeping, budgeting and how to get these figures using our financial documents.

 I kept my responsibility for the company’s overall result. It always took me for extra work, but my work position in the company implies a huge volume of work.

 I tried my best creating ideas of all company’s business activities including presentation, promotion materials and video.

 So,  in my opinion the student practise enterprise is a great good training ground to try yourself in the business life.

 Natalia Solovyeva,

 Managing Director of the student practise enterprise "Friendly Folder"

 August 2013 - January 2014