Ep. 125: Women in China Business Leadership with Helen Ye

In 2001, China became a member of WTO, and thousands of Chinese companies wanted to go abroad. One big problem was that these Chinese companies didn’t understand the culture, policies and regulatory requirements there. Helen started her career in this field since 2007 when she joined a consulting company which helps Chinese companies to have their presence in other countries. Now she is still working in this field but mainly helps foreign companies enter the China market.

It has been only 20 years since 2001. During the first decade, Chinese local companies wanted to go abroad. But in the past ten years, there were incredibly increasing numbers of overseas companies who are quite interested in the China market and want to understand how China market runs. 

In this episode, we will mainly focus on following questions:

• What are the biggest differences in selling consulting services to the foreigners as compared to the local Chinese companies?
• How to sell services such as consultancy service to the clients? 
• What are the key points of maintaining a sustainable relationship with the clients?
• How to preserve the core members of a team? 
• How to make sure that the team fits into the same vision? How to motivate the team?
• How to make sure that the messages of the leader go across effectively?
• How to talk to the staffs as a CEO when there are mistakes?
• How to manage the company like a family? How to find a balance between a CEO and a mother-like person?
• What can be considered as the biggest achievement of a company?

Episode Mentions:

• Reach out to Helen via helen.ye@accestra.com or LinkedIn 
• Website: https://www.accestra.com
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