As adults, work would have integrated and become a major part of our everyday lives. Each day, you could very possibly encounter a new and different challenge - be it dealing with demanding clients, or facing our boss’s ever changing requests or the working on the next big project.
Therefore, to make things easier for us at work, we have to equip and prepare ourselves well beforehand to know how to face these challenges when they arise. The following few points could give you some tips on what to prepare and be more equipped to face your challenge.

Emotions can blind us, causing us to fail to see what was most important at the moment, resulting in negative actions and consequences – which often happens in the heat of the moment.
Therefore, when a challenging or difficult incident occurs, we sometimes need to take a few minutes or even hours (if time allows) to internalise our surroundings, understand your circumstances and what lead to this situation before we can move on.

At times, a great solution to try to calm down is to seek help from a close colleague, friend or family that could help you soothe your feelings or help you resolve the problem. Or if nobody is available, you spend time to pen down your feelings.

But if nothing works to calm you down, and you cannot leave the premises, close your eyes and breathe long, slow and deep breaths using the 4-7-8 method. Breathe in deeply for 4 seconds, hold for 7 seconds and exhale from your mouth for 8 seconds.
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After you have calmed down, start focusing on solving the issue rather than dwelling on the anger, self-condemnation, or even starting a blaming game in your mind. Refocusing your thoughts helps you to not only solve your problem by tackling it, reducing your anxiety and anger as the issue has been solved.

Falling point is the potential first step where you have made that have caused this mistake. For example, an issue has aroused due to a careless mistake made from your forgetfulness. The falling point will be the moment when you received the information and did not note it down.

When the issue occurred, take time to trail back to the moments before the issue arose. It maybe due to a certain remark, a decision made or not made or it could be a mixture of both.
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But do note that we can never please everyone or avoid things that we cannot and have no authority to change. So, consider if this issue is a professional and technical work problem that you have to tackle, or it is an issue on a more personal level. If it is on a personal level, you can have the option to decide if the issue is worth salvaging. But on a professional level, we have to take into account of the consequences and thus, may need to manage it as best as you can.

Big projects, presentations or events can be very daunting, especially if they are important or of a topic that is new and foreign to us, as we may not know how or where to start and progress.

I would suggest to never just dive straight into the project without any understanding of it. Start by identifying the purpose and goals of the project and from there, think of the small sequential steps you need to take to reach the purpose and goals.

Small steps should be completed in sequential order which is heading towards your end goal and each task should not take more than a day to complete – best is that it can be done within several hours.

In addition, they should be easy to complete because easier tasks are more likely to make you feel more motivated to complete since it doesn’t take much effort or time.  
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The faster and more tasks you complete could also help give you more sense of achievement as it makes you see that you have made good progress, giving you an even better boost in motivation and productivity. Hence, a task that originally seemed challenging can now appear more manageable and even more enjoyable.

Most of the time, the circumstance or experience appears bad to us, may actually not as bad as it seems. It may be because we get caught up in our negativity and failures that we could not see the joy or opportunities that they may actually have.

Furthermore, most of the times, failures or challenging circumstances are stepping stones and learning steps towards success. There may be little and simple joys you have missed as well while we dwell in the negativity.
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We can begin by searching for the advantageous and beneficial points you can get to stop yourself from dwelling in your negativity and start looking at the issue in a different perspective.
For example, if you had a work conflict and negative consequences starts flooding your mind. Reframe it by seeing what you can gain out of it (be it when you resolve the conflict, or during the conflict’s cool down phase). This conflict may be help you to manage conflict better the next time round and could also help you improve on your communication and stress management skills.

​Do not give up in the face challenges and persevere on when you encounter them as these challenges more often than not provide you with life skills you can learn along the way in your life.
If you or your team at work need to place to for new challenges or learning skills, the links below could give you a suggestion to help!
They are a perfume workshop that not only helps you to understand yourself better, but also give you the spark and learning challenge to learning something novel yet fun!
For more information, or to register for a workshop, do head down to the links below.
 
Perfume Workshop Team Building links for more information:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com
 
OR:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com/perfume-team-building-singapore.html
 
Couple & Bridal Showers Perfume Workshop:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com/goodman-perfume-workshop.html
 

​Clients can be important financial support to businesses – be it freelancers or huge organizations. Therefore, the front liners who are meeting and liaising with the clients plays a significant role as they are the face of the company and projects the company image to others.
Hence, to make sure you grab the attention and wallet of the clients, knowing your clients’ needs are significant. It is only when the clients can see that your service or product has the capability to help them that they will recognize the worth of giving you their attention and money.

​You can easily identify if the pitch you are presenting to your client is well-prepared or not, what’s more the client that you are facing.
Before you jump into crafting and presenting your pitch, research on the client’s profile, the organization they are representing, what’s their organization’s vision and goals, and what service and products they provide etc.
These are very important information to help you to make an intelligent inference on what kind of needs your client may be seeking. Furthermore, from the information and inference gathered, you can craft a better script, tailoring it to the needs of your clients.

Active listening – a good method to use in trying to listen for why your client is saying what he/she is saying, and why it is important to them and the company.
Ask questions to clarify when there are any unclear points that needed clarifications, do not jump into conclusions and fall into the trap of assumptions.
Minimize all distractions from your surroundings as much as possible that will take away your focus on the client such as your electronic devices like your phone – watches included, as it can distract you from taking too much notice of the time instead.
All these can help you to focus better and understand the client before you, to recognize their needs, helping you to plan possible ways to proceed in presenting you work in relation to their needs.

​By this time, you probably already have a clearer idea on what your client may or would need.
What you can do now is to mentally and briefly formulate plan on how you can match the needs of your clients using your existing resources, and service you provide or offer other possible feasible ideas.
If you do not have any ideas or suggestions that could help the clients, you can carry on and continue to show interest, give your full attention to listen and understand the clients you are facing.

Give a simple, polite and sincere message or email after your meeting with the client to show your appreciation for the time he/she gave you and offer further assistance or clarifications if your client needs it.
In addition, to not forget, quickly jot down your client’s profile, their possible and recognizable needs in a notebook or your phone, where you can analyse them more deeply later and research on ways you how you can assist them further. It is also good to note down how to improve your pitch better the next time round as well.
If you have found other ideas to help the client, you can then send her another follow up message to request another meet up or an email to give her the information you have found that may help.

​To be understand the client’s needs better, pre-preparation such as researching on the client’s profile, which company the clients are representing, and key information on the organization should be made before making the appointment.
During the appointment, make an effort to actively seek understanding in what you are listening, and do a follow-up with the client after the appointment to understand their needs better and improve on your previous pitch for the next session.

Activities together with your clients can also help you kill any awkwardness while understanding your client better as well. The links below provide Workshop sessions of a Perfume Workshop.
They provide personality quizzes to understand yourself and one another better, mini interactive games, and even a novel and fun experience to personalize your very own perfume.
You can book a session for 2 people or for a larger group for team building now using the links below or just to find out more!
Perfume Workshop Team Building/General links for more information:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com
 
OR:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com/perfume-team-building-singapore.html
 
Couple & Bridal Showers Perfume Workshop:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com/goodman-perfume-workshop.html
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​Statistics have surveyed and shown surprisingly high percentage of young adults did not enter a job for their passion, often settling for a routine job that could secure a livelihood for themselves and their family.
Do not misunderstand, there will definitely be days where we feel lethargic, losing the momentum and drive to work, however, if this happens on a daily basis, we have to re-evaluate why we have lost the drive we have promised ourselves or the company and if our original purpose in joining this organization is now still as important to you.

​People in a passion-driven team has an open-minded mindset towards learning and is willing to try new things to broaden their perspectives – not restricting their learning to only the scope of their field.
Using their wide world view and experience, they are able to solve things in a creative and out-of-the-box method that often produces amazing results.

They are usually people in the job for not just the money but the experience they can get and learn from it. They collect experience, skills and the knowledge gained from the exposure rather than just being in it for the money.
To them, the adrenaline, joy, sense of accomplishment and fulfilment weighs more than what money could give them.

Passion are great driving force that motivates people to take initiative. These people recognize opportunities, grabs it and make sure they complete them without the need for others to push them to do it, even if this task is not within their job scope.
They are also friendly and approachable people who are willing to share and contribute their ideas as a team. Teaching others is a advantages trait that helps both the individual as well as the team as it reemphasizes your learning and skill and help others to do it too.

​Since their learning takes priority, more often than not, they are not afraid of failing as they recognize that failure is one effective way for them to learn and recognize where they can further improve their skill.
Just like Albert Einstein who invented the light bulb by effort and perseverance, failing thousands of times, but never giving in to peer pressure, nay-sayers or self-condemnation because of their failures.
It is more often that we only able to see the glorious side of success but forget the process of it is the more important part to reaching success. Therefore, a team that is fuelled by passion possess a great culture of not falling and feel discouraged in the face of failure.

In a team where passion is their distinct trait, you could see their shine when they work as they have a sense of purpose in working what they are working on and because of that find the sense of accomplishment in their job.
Wanting to try out new things with your team? A fun and novel experience like a Perfume Workshop could be your next team building or skill building activity for your team!

 
To find out more or book a session for your team, head down to the links below!
Perfume Workshop Team Building links for more information:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com
 
OR:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com/perfume-team-building-singapore.html
 
Couple & Bridal Showers Perfume Workshop:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com/goodman-perfume-workshop.html
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