Online Class Notes (Jesse)

review your notes and write down 3-4 questions (if you have any) about anything in the notes you don’t 100% understand and think you may make that mistake again.

Grammar

I have traveled there many times in my life
I had traveled there many times before I visited in 2010

it’s worth it / it’s worth the time

nouns – which one? / how many?

active: I drink the water
passive: The water is drunk

on tomorrow = on next day

Vocabulary

I can’t be autonomous under my boss

micromanager
eg. he is a micromanager so he micromanages everything

This week I felt a little bit frustrated, because I found I was just an implemental staff. That is not my truly goals of career purposes. When I transform my job, I wanted to make some change about the Logitech China in future, such as social ecommerce business and live streaming influencers, but more than 4 months be passed, nothing can be refreshed, even a little shift.
Furthermore, our new global CEO will bring the management team arrive in China next week, I need attend the round table to open talks with them, especially my dotted line manager, who is responsible for the etail business around world, she already arranged a 1 on 1 conversation with me during that week. I will encounter the really challenging about my English capability.
So, I need to make lots of preparations for conversation, for example, the trends of China’s ecommerce platform developments, and our competitors‘ innovations about online business, and find out some solutions for the currently challenges in next year…etc.
If you aske me which is most important thing on my side, I think that is to improve my of colleagues’ the awareness abilities to each ecommerce platforms, such as the knowledges for Alibaba and Pinduoduo, and can clearly find the differences between the JD.com and Taobao, and clearly know why we call the social ecommerce as an advantage toolkits. That’s the only way can consistently expand our online business, because if we reach these insights level, we could predict the platforms trends about future.

This week I felt a little bit frustrated, because I found (that) I was just an implemental staff. That is not the true goal of my career. When I transform my job, I wanted to make some change about the Logitech China in the future, such as our social ecommerce business and live streaming influencers, but more than 4 months have passed, nothing can be refreshed / we can’t refresh anything, even a little shift.
Furthermore, our new global CEO will bring the management team to arrive in China next week, and I need to attend the round table to open / have talks with them, especially my dotted line manager, who is responsible for the etail business around the world / for the global etail business, she already arranged a 1 on 1 face to face conversation with me during that week. I will encounter a real challenge about my English capability.
So, I need to make lots of preparations for conversation, for example, the trends of China’s ecommerce platform developments, and our competitors‘ innovations about online business, and find out some solutions for the current challenges in next year…etc.
If you ask me which is the most important thing on my side, I think that is to improve my of colleagues’ the awareness abilities to each ecommerce platform, such as the knowledge of Alibaba and Pinduoduo, and can clearly find the differences between the JD.com and Taobao, and clearly know why we call the social ecommerce as an advantage toolkits. That’s the only way we can consistently expand our online business, because if we reach this insight level, we could predict the platform trends of the future.

Questions for your line-manager

it’s so nice to finally meet you in the flesh / face to face / in person / with my own eyes 

how is your trip going? / how has your trip been going?

do you have any big plans during the weekend? like visiting some famous places or anything?

so you have you noticed much difference between your last trip in July and this time? like the air pollution isn’t so good these days, right?