F2F Class Notes 9th January (Raph)

Vocabulary

Rehearse (v): 1- to practise a play, a piece of music, etc. in order to prepare it for public performance.
E.g.: The musicians rehearsed the symphony for the concert.

Grammar

I in charge of one team. – I am in charge of one team.

Original:

How to drive the work as senior?
As a senior, the significant work will be changed from the detailed styles to the whole view of brand. So I will be a driver for P11 quality .I must work closely with senior merchandiser and senior QC to give buyer’s workable suggestion and to guide the suppliers to understand our brand correctly and improve their making ability to reach our request. Moreover, I should work as a helicopter to give good support for team member’s daily work. Make sure all of them have the skills on controlling garment quality.

What’s the value for P11 if you are on the senior position?
If I was the senior technician, I think I have two specialized characters to bring value for P11.
1) The first key word is INITIATIVE. I always like to think issues and find solutions from my initiative. I’d like to communicate with merchandiser and QC for better production from my initiative. I’d like to support the supplier to improve their skills to reach our requirement from my initiative. I’d like to care my team members to give them good support for their daily work. Due to my initiative, I believe I could create smooth and effective working flow.
2) The second key word is Persistent. I like to make high qualified garment. So I always insist on better quality. And I am proud to get the wonderful garment on making. I hope my spirit could affect my team members. That will bring consistently high quality for our brand.

How to tread the staff who don’t accept more workload?
Analyze the concert status. If the workload is really over staff’s capacity, I will lead the team members to work together or apply other team’s support. At the same time think the reason for over workload, and try to improve the working methods to reduce workload but improve the effective. If it is not due to over workload, I’d like to guide him or her to manage time, and support him or her to work in more effective routine.

Correction:

How to stay productive as a senior staff member?

As a senior staff member, the most significant part of my work will be changed from being in charge of styles and  details to being responsible for the whole view of the brand. In that way, I will be the driver of P11’s quality. I must work closely with the senior merchandiser and the senior QC to give buyer’s workable suggestions. I will also need to guide the suppliers to understand our brand correctly and improve their production capacity and quality to meet our standards. Moreover, I should work as a helicopter to give good support for each team member’s daily work, making sure all of them have the skills to control garment quality.

What’s the value for P11 if you are in a senior position?
If I was a senior technician, I think that two of my specialized traits would add value to P11:
1) The first key word is INITIATIVE. I always like to think about issues and find solutions from my initiative. I’d like to communicate with merchandisers and QCs to enhance production. I’d like to support the suppliers to improve their skills to reach our requirements. I’d like to take care of my team members and give them good support for their daily work. Due to my initiative, I believe I could create a smooth and effective workflow.
2) The second key word is Persistence. I like to make high quality garments, so I always insist on better quality. I am proud to have wonderful garments as a result. I hope my spirit could affect my team members and bring consistently high quality for our brand.

– How to treat the staff who don’t accept a bigger workload?
First I would need to analyze the situation. If the workload is really over the staff member’s capacity, I will lead the team members to work together or apply another team’s support. While also determining the reason for the extra workload, and try to improve the working methods to reduce this in the future and improve effectiveness. If it is not because of the workload, I’d like to guide them to manage their time better and to work in a more effective routine.

Original: 

How to manage your team member?
I will try my best to create a positive environment and give them good support for their daily work, so that they could work positively and effectively. For example, encourage them to talk and share their knowledge and experience between each other to improve the skills. Always make them pay attention to the effective working methods, such as before the sample making, check the request from BO in advance, and make notice for the supplier to the special requirement. As to some making issues always come out from some supplier, try to a different but effective way to guide the supplier aside from the comments, such as call them directly to find the rote reason and help them to think out the solution to improve the issues, or give them a training on our common requirement.

How to manage your time as senior?
As a senior, my focus will move from the style details to the whole view of P11 garment quality. So every day I should take the significant things in mind. The significant things are that may improve our teams’ working effective, may be some risk on bulk operation, and may make our products better, and so on. Once find these significant things, make a schedule to talk with senior merchandiser, senior QC, BO, or suppliers to let the good things come out and bad things disappear.

How to make effective communication with Merchandiser and QC department?
Always think the issues from the whole view. Analyze the related factors and find the basic reason. Give merchandiser or QC the significant information and clear suggestion. Such as the supplier’s character, which category the supplier is good at. Then let merchandiser note their direction to arrange the orders. As to some process the supplier always going wrong, we must let QC note, so that they could pay more attention to it.

How to insist on your idea towards buyer and supplier?
Firstly I must clarify what I do is to support the buyer to get good garment. So my solutions are always for the designing requirement. If the designing is definitely unworkable, then I will explain to buyer about the reason. Maybe it is due to the machine’s limit or other objective reasons. Usually, I support the supplier to find the workable solution for our special requirement. What I insist on is the better quality and more effective bulk. Share a case to show how I insist on myself. That is about the Esquel shirt. As we know Esquel is a very good supplier with many kinds of advanced machine. But at the beginning, they can’t make the collar as fullness. I can’t accept. As high quality shirt, the collar is very important. It is must be fullness on the body. I talked with supplier and taught them how to make it. But I found it is due to that their automatic machine can’t sew the ease between top and under layers. Compared with other normal factory, I found they could improve their mould by adding some pad between the two layers. I send the mould images to them and talked about my thought. Thanks to Ms. Du, the merchandiser in Esquel factory. She organized their IT team and garment technician to improve their machine. In last Oct. when I visited Esquel factory, the guider told me the machine they improved is just for P11 requirement. I am so proud to hear this. But I found the machine hadn’t been improved as best. So the collar points are still easy turning up. At that time, I talked with their tech and suggest them adding small pad near the collar points. Finally I received the better collar from Esquel.

Edited:

How to manage your team members?
I will try my best to create a positive environment and give them good support for their daily work, so that they could work positively and effectively. For example, encourage them to talk and share their knowledge and experience between each other to improve their skills. Always make them pay attention to the effective working methods, such as before making a sample, check the request from BO in advance, and notify the supplier of the special requirements. As some production issues always come out from some suppliers, in addition to making the usual comments, try different but effective ways to guide them, such as calling them directly to find the root of the problem and help them to think of a solution to improve the issues, or giving them training on our common requirements.

How to manage your time as a senior staff member?
As a senior staff member, my focus and scope of work will change. So every day I should pay attention to the significant factors that may improve our teams’ effectiveness,  and result in better products. Once I find these significant things, I should make a schedule to talk with the senior merchandiser, the senior QC, the BO, or the suppliers to let the good things come out and bad things disappear.

How to make effective communication with Merchandiser and QC department?
Always consider the issues as a whole. Analyze the related factors and find the basic reason. Give merchandiser or QC the important information and clear suggestions. Such as the supplier’s character and which category the supplier is good at. Then let the merchandiser arrange the orders. Some processes always have issues on the supplier’s end, so we must let the QC note, so that they could pay more attention to it.

How to persuade the buyer and supplier to follow your ideas?
Firstly I must clarify what I do is support the buyer to get good garments. So my solutions are always for the design requirements. If the design is definitely unworkable, then I will explain the reason to the buyer. Maybe it is due to the machine’s limit or other objective reasons. Usually, I support the supplier to find the workable solution for our special requirements. What I insist on is better quality and more effective bulk production. I will Share a case about the Esquel shirt. As we know Esquel is a very good supplier with many kinds of advanced machinery. But at the beginning, they couldn’t make the collar full enough, which was unacceptable. As a high quality shirt, the collar is very important. It must be full on the body. I talked with the supplier and taught them how to make it. But I found out it is because their automatic machine can’t sew the ease between the top and bottom layers. Compared with other normal factories, I found out they could improve their mould by adding some pads between the two layers. I sent the mould images to them and shared my thoughts. Thanks to Ms. Du, the merchandiser at the Esquel factory. She organized their IT team and garment technician to improve their machines. Last Oct. when I visited the Esquel factory, the guide told me the machine they improved is just for P11 requirement. I am so proud to hear this. But I found the machine hadn’t been optimized. So the collar points are still easily turning up. At that time, I talked with their tech and suggested they add small pads near the collar points. Finally I received a better collar from Esquel.

Pronunciation

Capacity: /kəˈpæs.ə.t̬i/

Moreover: /ˌmɔːrˈoʊ.vɚ/

Initiative: /ɪˈnɪʃətɪv/

Persistence: /pɚˈsɪs.təns/

analyze: /ˈæn.əl.aɪz/

Determining: /dɪˈtəːmɪnɪŋ/

Effectiveness: /ɪˈfek·tɪv·nəs/

Positively: /ˈpɑː.zə.t̬ɪv.li/

Product: /ˈprɑː.dʌkt/

Persuade: /pɚˈsweɪd/