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Vietnamese “Team Balance – How Different Characteristics Affect Communication and Collaboration Within a Team?” was the topic of the breakfast seminar held by the British Business Group Vietnam (BBGV) in association with other chambers on September 15th, 2016.
The seminar gathered a number of enterprise CEOs and HR executives to discuss on topics of teamwork, how to build trust in work and behavioural profiling tools. A wide range of speakers and panellists made the seminar more popular included Rick Yvanovich (CEO, TRG International), Huy Tran (Talent Management Manager, TRG International), Ms. Thoa Vo (Director of Career Transition, Lee Hecht Harrison Vietnam) and Mr. Loek Hopstaken (Director of Training at International Business & Law Academy).
Mr. Huy Tran was delivering his presentation
Based on the fact that teamwork is becoming more and more important in the ever-changing business context, Mr. Huy Tran (Talent Management Manager, TRG International) delivered his presentation on reasons why most teams don’t work and how leaders can build a collaborative team environment. It turns out that trust is the root cause of ineffective team among other reasons such as unclear goals, no direction, and lack of engagement or incompetence.
To overcome those barriers, changes should come from the top and leaders are expected to be vulnerable to their teams firstly. It is also essential for team leaders or managers to understand different characteristics of their members in the bid to predict and understand their behaviours towards assignments and coordination. Behavioural profiling tools provided by TRG Talent is considered as one of the most effective solutions to understand one’s strengths and weaknesses for effective teamwork.
The panel (from left to right): Mr. Rick Yvanovich (CEO, TRG International), Mr. Huy Tran (Talent Management Manager, TRG International), Ms. Thoa Vo (Director of Career Transition, Lee Hecht Harrison Vietnam) and Mr. Loek Hopstaken (Director of Training at International Business & Law Academy).
The panellists also received several questions from guests on how foreign managers deal with problems when managing Vietnamese staffs or other issues caused by the differences in Vietnamese business culture. At the end of the seminar, all speakers, panellists and guests agreed that building effective team takes time and great efforts from both team leaders and members but it is worthy to work together towards amazing success.
Below are some pictures from the event:
The seminar gathered a number of enterprise CEOs and HR executives
Asking questions to the panelists
