In the Business Development department here, there are 2 team leads. L & V. Trust me, no matter who you get as your leader, you will be doomed. (1) V is guy who has 0 leadership skill, its basically like being taught by a little boy on how to do sales. He is good at making his own sales but super bad when teaching his own team on how to do it. (2) Lets not forget, the micromanaging. You will basically be controlled and asked on your current location, even though you are sitting in the office every damn day. (3) Nonsense monthly appraisal. Instead of talking about legit working points during the appraisal, he will ask you regarding unreasonable stuffs and gossips about yourself. You will practically lose about 30 minutes for that conversation. Also, that nonsense gossip points... yeah, it will be put into your official appraisal as well. (4) No sense of trust with his own team member. He will always be questioning the dumbest things that will make me questioned back my own sanity. Okay, now lets get to the juicy part. L is another team lead there, who is more senior in terms of age and working term with this company. I am trying to come up with a good thing for him, but sadly, I couldn't. (1) He is a yes-man to the Chairman, in hoping that one day, he will becoming the company Country Manager, but everyone knows, that he is not capable and not qualified to hold that position. (2) This is the guy that have a huge amount of Debtor list, to the point that it is unrealistic anymore. Talking about sales aficionado... more like a mess after a sales tornado. (3) Micromanage. His situation here is as bad as V. (4) Bragging about his achievement and kept on saying that he is one of the best salesperson there, especially about his MarryBrown deal. Little did he know that, WE (most of the BDMs there), knows that MarryBrown is just an old client of his, since 2020. (5) Manually-raised PI. His invoice to-date is super low, but his PI is unreasonably high. So, need me to say more...? (6) Favoritism. Will always back up his favorite BDMs in his team, especially due to skin color & race. (7) Made a racist comment once, during the Wednesday Sales Meeting where he mentioned the statement "because Chinese is educated" when our Chairman asked why do Chinese clients asked for a different training session in Mandarin language. Logically thinking, how is that educated? Malay & Indian clients have never asked for any training session in their language because they can understand English perfectly. And yet, your race is the educated one??? Make it make sense please. (8) Broken english. This point is pretty petty but I do expect a Team Leader to possessed an excellent English skills, in both written and verbal method. (9) Bad time management. Forget about asking this guy for any help, he will not have time to entertain your questions and needs, even though you urgently need guidance to handle a client at that moment. Sometimes it made me wonder, does he do that on purpose so that I couldn't close that particular sale? Especially when it comes to big clients. Last and also the most crucial point, both team leads, L & V hates it when all of the BDMs under their teams directly consult the Chairman for any advice or special price. Apparently, the team leads have a huge egos when their teams didn't consult them first. But in our defense, the chairman himself did specifically mentioned MANY times during the sales meeting TO CONSULT HIM at any times as he is the only person who can give special price and great advice. So tell me, why in the world do I need to consult the TL first when I can just simply skip that step and go directly to the chairman (who offers the solution to my problem in about 2 swift minutes only).
