Olivier Balavoine

Skype Pseudo: balavoineo

International Skills: A Life experience and sixth-sense development
• Recognize that keeping an open mind helps break-down barriers
• Smile and be oneself: it establishes a relationship
• Speak English, Spanish and French with good Mandarin Chinese base
• Have lived and worked in Ivory Coast, England, China and Mexico
• Integrate cultural differences quickly
• Comprehend importance of global vision in today's world without forgetting local needs
• Find solutions which are inventive

Business Selling Skills: Targeting the Supply and Demand
• Define and convince my client what he needs
• Believe in self-motivation and team work to accomplish that task
• Incorporate benchmarking in decision making process: Curiosity for competitors products
• Negotiate with buyer from the smallest to the most international clients in every kind of market
• Build a long terms partnership with my distributors in their organization and buying opportunities
• Meet my yearly sales targets

Engineering Skills which apply to Sales: Building and Manufacturing the goods
Earned a degree in Civil and Coastal Engineering: Plymouth University, England
• Plan and budget with cost-efficiencies restraints for the work to be done
• Design and construct project
* Integrate manufacturing techniques with their machinery and process limits
* Insure Quality Assurance with precise procedures and quality criteria
• Participate in Bidding, Contracting and Supervising processes

Project Management and Communication Skills: Building a team
Embrace power of communications
• Bring people with different expertise and background towards the same goal:
* Help create and define common rules to work together
* Instill team work values
* Define tasks of team members according to abilities and set goals
* Evaluate and define improvement points
• Build and nurture bridges between departments of the company
• Recognize individual accomplishment