One thing I really like about the company is its diversity. People have very diverse backgrounds. There are people from China, Brazil, Ireland, and of course America. There are people already married with kids or still in high school. They interact with each other all the time talking about our backgrounds naturally and proudly. It\u2019s a different environment from the university where there seems an invisible line between different groups of people. One factor that helps foster the organizational culture is its size. It is a small group with around 25 people so that people establish close relationship with each other through working together now and then on streets and networking during team nights every Thursday.<\/p>\n
Within all the relationships, the relationship between team leaders and interns is an indispensable part of the organizational culture. Every intern has a team leader that serves as his or her coacher and mentor. Every day, we go to the field in a team with several other interns and one or several team leaders. Team leaders have their own leadership styles. Leander, my team leader, is sensitive and supportive. He uses participative leadership asking for my input on what needs to work on. He asked for my opinion once when he had an interviewee. Team leaders tend to establish individualized personal relationship with their interns even on the very first day when interns were interviewed so that followers tend to trust and look up to their team leaders when they learn the systems to do sales in the beginning. At first, interns tend to be grouped with their own team leaders to go to the field together. After one or two weeks when interns start to do sales on their own, they start to be grouped with other team leaders. The strength is that they start to see different sales styles and get to interact with more team leaders. At the same time, the challenge is that because of different leadership styles of different team leaders they may not feel as supportive as they were with their own team leaders. Therefore, it is important for team leaders to keep checking on their interns and maintain the close relationship throughout the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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