simon chong kai yuen
From the industrial talk by 1 of the founders of Pin Tea Malaysia – Mr David on 14th June 2022, 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm,
at Webex online meeting platform. I learned how they started up their business. He is a diploma graduate from Inti College,
Malaysia, and last he and his partners decided to start their own business with Pin Tea Malaysia. He does not like 9 to 6 work,
although it pays more, he and his partners faced conflict during the business. Still, it is really ordinary when working in a
team, everyone has different opinions, ideas and thoughts, try to solve them together and talk to each other instead of just
keeping silent. The level of misunderstanding or argument will be increased. His diploma education is not being helpful or
useful to him if he could travel back to the timeframe before he furthered his study to diploma level, he said he would not
go for it, he would start his business journey directly. Furthermore, by inspiration from Mr David, I have learned the
difficulty of start-up a journey as a business, it is not as easy as I thought, and need to grab the opportunity, have
the ability of time management, patience, passion, and responsibility. Besides, from Mr David’s talk, he traveled a lot,
he went to China, he got a culture shock because he saw how advanced is China, developed rapidly, that was a great experience
for him, he learned from Chinese in China how they operate their business successfully. Therefore, I think we cannot only
just stay within our comfort zone, we must take our first step, try to look around the world, we could have a different perspective.
Other than that, I also learned that we have to be patient when facing conflict among team members, keeping silent will
not be the best decision, it might bring a worse situation. Try to communicate with them, figure out the solution, think
about the causes, and make the best decision for each of the team members. In the future, I know how to handle
in-team conflict, even currently studying, we have our own time and might have some conflict. Besides, I have to be courageous
to step out of the first step, fearless of failure in a critical situation, failure never makes you fail, but fear does.