01An unfamiliar task took longer than expected
Yuliya Pilipenko joined Business Code while working as an art director at a children's center.
One of her most memorable experiences was the assignment to list a thousand wishes. She expected it to take a few hours, started late and finished much later than planned. She approached the deadline under considerable stress.
Her practical conclusion was to start unfamiliar tasks early, allowing enough time to understand them and finish calmly.
02Trusting a partner does not replace an agreement
Yuliya highlights interviewing, communication and partner relationships among the useful topics.
Previously, she had mainly thought about how to get someone interested in working together. She did not discuss the terms for leaving a partnership: relationships relied on people's word and mutual trust.
After the sessions, she began noticing that these questions also need to be discussed in advance. She does not report having actually left a partnership.
03She wanted more time devoted to team management
Yuliya says she would have liked more detailed work on teams, interviewing and motivating people.
Not all the marketing presentations suited her equally well: she found some guest specialists' material difficult to follow.
She says she was already applying some of what she learned at work, but was not building her own business at that point. This is an employee's review of work-related skills and new questions raised during the program.
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