Frequent Business Trips: Do You Refuse?

Travel density is too high, for marriage and life is no doubt a pressure.

Distinguished guest:

Angela Baby (Executive) manager, Presidential Hotel

Zhang Xuhui: manager of public relations, Presidential Hotel.

Ai Meijuan: Managing Director of Beijing Hua Wen Xu Tong International Advertising Co., Ltd.

Chen Yuanwen: manager of Media Department of Beijing Hua Wen Xu Tong International Advertising Co., Ltd.

Venue: Presidential Hotel Executive Lounge (010-64640088-65)

Time: March 11, 2005 14:30-17:00

Business trip is already a job that many companies do, especially those in the market, almost every week.

However, for female managers, although travel can increase their experience, enrich their experience, and even create opportunities for their promotion, women managers are not as free and easy as male managers on business matters. Because of family concerns and concerns, whether personal travel is convenient and safe, and whether physical strength can support the rush of work and other factors, whether to travel or not is a difficult choice for many female managers.

Do women managers refuse to travel in the face of work needs?

Chen Yuanwen: Travel requires compromise.

Four or five years ago, a lot of companies hired people, often playing a very clear job threshold: this job requires frequent travel, limited to men. Until now, you will not say that this job requires frequent business trips, because you are a woman who refuses you. So women's travel has been recognized by the whole society.

In other words, society is constantly improving, companies are constantly adjusting their ideas, and you are constantly adjusting your mindset and habits. For example, a large foreign enterprise requires everyone to be independent. Whoever is in charge of a certain area and is responsible for a certain business is bound to shoulder the task of travelling on this matter. In this way, your family or boyfriend may not want you to go on a business trip, but they have no objection to the idea of a business trip.

In fact, some small companies in China may take one or two women on a high-density trip for cost reasons. If one is male and the other is female, the cost of accommodation will increase. For example, a IT company, its marketing personnel are on a business trip every week. When dealing with business, this unit always lets two female managers go out together.

So, for me, if there is a better opportunity to show up, for example, to travel to the United States, I will choose to travel. Even though I may face marriage, I will temporarily postpone it. Because everyone has a career plan, I will tell my boyfriend about my career plan, and he will tell me his career plan. There is bound to be a compromise between them.

A family should not be dominated by men only. It should be supported by two people. The occupation of two people is very important to both sides. It depends on whose opportunity is greater. If an opportunity makes greater contribution to a person or family, marriage can be put aside so that affection will not be affected. Instead, after a business trip, my boyfriend will say, "my princess is back."

Therefore, travel is an opportunity to reconsider and balance itself, whether in work or in life, I will not refuse.

Zhang Xuhui: "loneliness" on business trip

In the course of my career development, business travel is commonplace. It's only a few days' time to travel alone, which is a kind of adjustment to the family atmosphere. It can disrupt the monotonous and fixed rhythm of life, and the short separation is good for the adjustment and consolidation of the two feelings.

It's just that waking up in a strange hotel room in a strange place, looking at the standard rooms with the same layout and almost all kinds of luxurious facilities, sometimes makes you think about where you are. A short business trip is bound to be a little lonely because everything needs you to do it alone. Therefore, the choice of accommodation hotel is very high. Especially in some details, such as the location of the hotel is bustling, shopping convenience, entertainment facilities are suitable, the room supplies are complete and so on, which will eliminate the fatigue and loneliness of business.

In addition, the high density of travel is a kind of pressure for marriage and life.

A friend of mine is a stewardess who flies on international routes. Her husband is a IT and works in Beijing. Because she often flies to the United States, Europe and other places, it takes a week to go, and if she comes back just when the other party is out again, there is no chance to even face. The two people spend a little time together in one year, and the world outside is so wonderful that they get divorced.

In fact, travel needs to arrange the family well, take care of the parents, and solve the problem of the children's school. Of course, for young professional female managers, she is willing to go. Because in this new project, she has been enriched, and it is an opportunity to enhance her ability. She can also develop new resources in other places and explore new business opportunities for the company. In particular, once the new business opportunities are discovered, her future prospects will certainly be very good.

So, when I was on a business trip, I did not consider so many difficulties, but considered how to carry out the work. However, for a very frequent trip, whether to refuse or accept, I have to look at the specific circumstances at that time. For example, on the day of business, children are sick, of course, they can not go. Taking care of children is the duty of a mother.

Ai Meijuan: travel needs sacrifice

For frequent travel, like a few days, a week, I think no one has refused. If you refuse, you will not be able to do the job, because your job is like this. But if you ask me, are you willing to go on a business trip? Of course not, because for women, business is very tired, the plane is dry and bad for your skin. Your life will be broken, your endocrine will be out of order, and your biological clock will be abnormal.

In October last year, I made ten bad grades, which made my body a bit out of balance. Can I say no to such a business trip? No, this is my job needs, and it's no use complaining, because I am willing to do this job.

In fact, men are also on a business trip, but compared with men, female managers consider more children, how to arrange the children, so that children do not have problems. However, when your child is sick, do you go or not? This choice is very difficult, but fortunately I haven't met it. But I am now working alone in Beijing with my children. When I was away from business, I learned that my child was ill. I felt very guilty and anxious because I could not go home.

As a mother, it seems very merciless. But in the case of business trip, I can only trust my parents to take care of my children. I will finish my work as soon as possible and hurry back.

But before I made the decision, my husband and I knew that there would be some problems in the business trip, including the temporary separation. However, if a decision is made on a business trip, there is no need to say anything. If we choose, we must sacrifice certain aspects, so we need to give up this aspect.

Li Jingying: "forbearance" for business trip

Based on the needs of work, as a career woman, travel is unavoidable, so we should take a positive look at this problem.

A friend of mine is a market maker. Her company's headquarters is in Shanghai, but she works in Beijing branch. Because headquarters and branch business frequent, she had to fly between Shanghai and Beijing. But she maintained a good relationship with her husband. Because she often talked to her husband on the phone, talking about his own unit and talking about his progress. Her husband also listened patiently and told her something about his unit. So the two sides have a good heart to communicate and collide. What is more interesting is that her five year old daughter is a little unhappy, but she also recognised, "mom is on a business trip again. There is no way to do that."

Standing at my friend's point of view, she had had the idea of refusing to travel, but even if she had that idea, she would not have expressed it. Because in order to expand the company's performance, in order to get the opportunity of promotion, she must endure with a calm mind, although traveling means more busy and tired than usual. Therefore, she will still go on a business trip, of course, there will inevitably be some progress. Whining 。

As a matter of fact, it has been a long time since work has been done. If every business trip is short, it will become accustomed to it. So always high density business trip, psychological generally do not give me too much touch. It's like a dull life. There are not many surprises and no worries too much. So I think it's better to have an optimistic attitude to travel, feel and experience.

Angela Baby: for business opportunities

I am a hotel. customer It is from all parts of the world, definitely not one hundred percent of Beijing people. To different customers, how to greet them and get along with them, I can manage well and can add value to our Presidential Hotel. So, even if I travel for 35 days and communicate with different people, I will not only mind, but I will also strive for business opportunities.

Because traveling can bring more people and more things, and increase their knowledge, which is more beneficial to the hotel service industry. For example, Yellow Crane Tower, I have learned in books, and I have had a perceptual knowledge of it, but what exactly is it? When I didn't see it with my own eyes, it happened that there were foreigners talking to me about the places of interest in China. When it comes to Yellow Crane Tower, can I talk to each other in detail? Of course, I can not provide better services.

For example, when I stay in a hotel in the destination, I can feel the service provided by the other party. In fact, I will compare it with our state guest, weigh the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides' business strategy, and then take the others' length to make up for their shortcomings. So as to improve my professional ability.

Of course, if Frequent business trips It will also bring me some trouble. Because I am an only child. I grew up under the care of my parents. I rarely leave them. When I left them, I missed them very much. They also worried about me, sometimes even worried. After all, the most common trouble for a single girl out of the house is the harassment of the opposite sex. But luckily, the quality of the clients I met were higher, and I always rushed and hurriedly, so that I could just make the other side do not produce "excessive enthusiasm". Besides, I believe that this society is a very realistic society and a law society.