Usha Sahoo: Founder, Yeh China Education Pvt. Ltd.

1. What is your philosophy of efficient leadership in a corporate setting?

I feel like as a leader we must analyze our own strengths and shortcomings. In a leadership position, we always try to see things from our own perspective, but its important to understand the team’s perspective on each and every goal setting. As a leader knowing the organization and its products well will help us to set a clear vision and achievable goals. The important role of a leader is to constantly motivate the team, taking risks and giving decision-making powers to them will be beneficial.

2. Given the chance, how would you redefine woman entrepreneurship?

The whole concept of “women entrepreneurship” has been redefined in recent years. There are innumerable numbers of micro, small, medium and large businesses are running by women. Women are always natural entrepreneurs. Looking at my 20 years of homemaking before starting yeh china, i honestly feel we know how to budget, save, spend and do money management. The only thing is as women we need to start taking the risk, take our own decision, support and engage with fellow entrepreneurs and get trained and mentored to become a new age entrepreneur.

3. Tell us about yeh china education.

We do a very simple yet powerful skilling. We solve the language barrier between two large nations india and china. One of the largest trade partner of india and the world , chinese language comes as the biggest road block and communication barrier between people . Our work is to train people in mandarin chinese language skill and help them communicate to 1.3 billion people and connect to a deeper level not just in asia but across the world. Not just business or corporate our young learners enjoys learning mandarin chinese as well. As rightly said by edmund de waal “with languages, you are at home anywhere”, our philosophy is give people confidence to communicate with mandarin chinese speakers.

4. What are your organization’s vision and core values?

We strive to give our clients and students real world language skills and help them speak ni hao with engaging and fun filled methods. Our core values are always empowering women and building more language entrepreneurs customer satisfaction, constant innovation and blended learning with technology and efficient teachers.

5. What would you choose between following your passion and being practical? Why?

I will like to become practical. My first entrepreneurship project failed because i was too passionate about it, but could not handle the day to day practical problems i faced. We can all be passionate about our dreams, ventures or businesses, but at the end of the day, a successful enterprise will need a practical approach to solve problems, make profits, take good care of employees and provide better service to stakeholders. Passion can build a great product but we all need to be practical to work hard and take it to our consumers.