Gift-giving is indeed a knowledge worth studying. It is your ability to send out gifts smoothly; it is your ability to handle things satisfactorily after sending out gifts. ability. If you do not pay attention to the appropriate methods when giving gifts, not only will you not achieve the expected results, you may also encounter unexpected embarrassment and embarrassment, and even cause trouble, causing trouble for yourself and the recipient. This is especially true when giving gifts to leaders, so you should be especially careful when doing so.
Duan Hua is an employee of a large state-owned company. He has been working in this large state-owned company for three years. Duan Hua has always believed in hard work and believed that relying on his own ability to earn a living and win the recognition of his leaders with his own performance is the most reliable. However, he watched his colleagues with average ability and level get promoted one after another, while he kept standing still. In addition, his wife and son also ridiculed him for being a coward for this reason, and he felt a little panicked.
During the National Day this year, Duan Hua, who had always disdained to please his leaders and took the upper-level route, reflected on it and felt that it was necessary to learn from the practices of other colleagues, get close to the leaders, and give him some small gifts. gift. He plucked up the courage to call several leaders one by one, but leaders are leaders, and during the holidays, it was difficult to get through on the phone. Finally, a leader received his call, it was department manager Lao Zhang. Duan Hua knew that Lao Zhang had recently moved into a new home, so he said on the phone: "Manager Zhang, happy holidays, I want to see your new home." But Lao Zhang replied hesitantly on the phone: "I I’m going on a trip soon and I’m not at home today.” This made Duan Hua, who was already very reserved, very frustrated and no longer had the courage to call other leaders. Therefore, during the entire National Day Golden Week, Duan Hua and his wife carefully prepared several gifts, but none of them were given out.
The honest Duan Hua later realized that it is a very sensitive matter to go to the leader’s house during the holidays, so it is now popular in society to let the post office deliver gifts on his behalf, and it is not popular to visit the house. , I failed to give gifts for the first time, mainly because I chose the wrong time and method.
Compared with Duan Hua, his colleague Deng Yue appears to be much more mature in his conduct, and his gift-giving techniques are also very sophisticated. In the past two years in this large state-owned company, the flexible-minded Deng Yue has developed well and received a lot of care from his leaders. He always wanted to give something back, but there was no chance. One day, he accidentally discovered that the calligraphy and painting in the mahogany frame of the leader's home looked like a rubbing, which was not in harmony with the elegant furnishings of the home. It just so happened that Deng Yue's uncle was a well-known calligrapher in the country, and he still had calligraphy and paintings given to him by his uncle. So, Deng Yue immediately went home and took the calligraphy and painting given to him by his uncle, and took the initiative to put it in the mahogany frame. Instead of expressing any objection, the leader liked it very much. Deng Yue's purpose of giving gifts was achieved, and he also sent the gifts to the leaders' hearts.
It is human nature to give gifts to leaders to strengthen mutual emotional communication. As the saying goes, it's easy to enjoy the shade under a big tree. In the workplace, in addition to work pressure, you also have to face various conflicts of interest or discord. Your leader is both your mentor and your "big tree" at work. , since you have tried your best in your work and strive for perfection, why don't you take the appropriate opportunity to express your gratitude to the leader as the icing on the cake?
As mentioned before, gifts to leaders should not be too expensive. In addition, if your boss gives you a gift, your return gift does not have to be too expensive, as long as it is thoughtful. For example, you can give the leader a few best-selling books, a few music CDs, a magazine subscription, a few movie theater tickets, etc. Of course, these gifts must be to the taste of the leader.
Wang Xin works as a department manager in a foreign-funded enterprise. Her foreign boss thanked her for her hard work and bought her a high-end scarf worth $100. Since she had always had a relatively harmonious relationship with the foreign boss, and she knew that the foreign boss liked cooking very much, she bought a bottle of olive oil worth about US$15 and gave it to the foreign boss.
Wang Xin believes that in terms of price alone, although her return gift cannot be compared with the gift from the foreign boss, it is an expression of gratitude. She said: "You don't have to demand that the gifts you give must be equal to those of your boss. It's enough to express your sincerity in reciprocity."