Mr. Richard from Barrick actively introduced Shandong Gold Group delegation to the venue and invited Board Chairman Chen Yumin to communicate with the staff at the venue through video
wait to take photos before the closet with our names.
What’s more, they also prepared Chinese working lunch at headquarters of Barrick and in the mine to take care of our taste, and the dishes were marked by their names like “Mapo Tofu”, though there were only fve or six kinds of home cooking in pots. The conference room became a dining room, people of different colors and speaking different languages sat or stood, eating, chatting and feeling exotic favor and warmth.
Appreciating Each Other Naturally and Honestly
Appreciating and being honest with each other is very important. Considerate courtesy and warm reception were obviously not enough to support Chairman Chen Yumin’s argument at the beginning of this article. All of their preparations for communication, detailed explanations to doubts and confusions and in-depth visit introductions from headquarters of Barrick to the mine made us feel the joy of “having friends coming from afar” and regretful that we did not meet each other earlier.
Executive Vice President and Talent Management Darian Rich apologized to the waiting colleagues of next group: “sorry, I’m afraid I have to take up your time.” Because of a tight schedule and lots of introducers, we unanimously agreed to have lunch in the conference room for the convenience of having the meeting after lunch. Sometimes, several interpreters gave hints, supplements or corrections to each other for the translation of a paragraph and even a word, and even President Woo Lee joined in and repeatedly communicated with both sides in English and Chinese in order to make the translation faithful.
COO Richard Williams rushed to take part in the weekly video conference, so he didn’t have time to interact with us after introducing the situation, and he initiatively invited us to visit the video conference room at appointed time. We thought that we only need to keep silent and observe calmly when facing meeting-place lens of Barrick Gold Corporation around the world. However, Mr. Williams initiatively introduced the visit of Shandong Gold of China to each affliated meeting place and invited Chairman Chen Yumin to have video communications with them. The hospitality were showed between the lines.
In underground mine, we visited far more than one or two operation felds. And we also had operations like drilling, ventilating, excavation and loading and transportation on the spot by ourselves,, and discussed and communicated problems in noise and smoke dust. What’s more, we were asked differences between Barrick and Shandong Gold and relevant experience. Fellow colleagues Peng Hui and Jiang Wenxin made video-recording with professional video recorder and mobile phone during the entire course, and expressed their surprise that they didn’t expect that they were allowed to make video recording and that they could record the real operation scenes.
Tacit Understanding Resulted in Mutual Affinity
Hearts which have a common beat are linked. That’s only applicable to friends who can understand each other tacitly. As the executives exchanged visits up to nine times in nine months, we have had deep enough communications between us in spite of short time. Given the exchanges between executives, I assume that employees on both sides
Barrick's Mine roadway with overlay support
