Do you agree that in order to survive in an unprecedented crisis we have to upgrade our skill? People say that the future is a mystery; we do not know what happens in a few years later. But as human beings, it is our basics skill to adapt if the world is changing quickly.
I believe that most of you hear or read that many businesses go bankrupt due to the Coronavirus situation. And in this article, I only focus on small businesses or home-based businesses. Indeed, I agree because of this crisis makes many people feel nervous. However, facing it in a positive mind will open a new door that brings us to a new opportunity. One door is closed and another door opens. What I am trying to say is that we have to adapt.
If the world changes rapidly and so are we. Adapting to the crisis we are in, it leads us to the next step. In order to do it that learning something new is a good decision. I remember a few years ago one of my friends asked me for advice. She wanted to make additional money to support her kids because she was in the divorce process. I talked to her that she needed to open small businesses at home by making cookies and cakes. By promoting her products on social media such as Instagram and Twitter would drive more customers. Besides, using another tool that popular in the community, WhatsApp for example, would make it easier for customers to orders and get in touch. Why I gave her that suggestion? My friend had a talent for baking and randomly her friends ordered. Moreover, she used to use social media in her daily life for unnecessary things. I thought she just needed to change her behavior by using social media as an advertising and showing to people what she capable of. The good thing is that it is a free Ad. Unfortunately, she said she could not do it because the market was not promising and did not know how to sell cookies on media social. Instead of trying she chose to give up. To be honest, I was disappointed. And today we are in Coronavirus year, if she had built the business back then, her businesses will thrive because the Covid-19 crisis urged businesses to go digital and creative. Read my other article that related to this topic here, https://ichi-journey.blogspot.com/2020/10/surviving-businesses-are-one-whose.html
We can not expect that every day is always a rainbow; sometimes storm comes. To deal with this condition it is important to upgrade our knowledge, our skill, or even our degree. Who would have known what happen in the future, it could be an economic or diseases crisis. By learning something new or take advanced knowledge, we can embrace the pandemic. Taking courses, class, or even self-taught in your field or another subject will give you the possibility to create a new opportunity or "just" survive. For example: if your business collapsed or you lose your job, what would you do? Whether you like it or not, you should learn something and upgrade skills to transforming your business or yourself. Without upskilling, it is virtually impossible to get through this pandemic.
Let's say you were selling fresh fruits before. A slowdown in sales during this Coronavirus crisis force you to close down the business. By upskilling your strategies on how to make fresh juice, using a tool to promote the product then drive new customers, and how to deliver orders without direct contact with customers, it is possible for you to keep your business run in a rough situation. Furthermore, you can make another product such as dessert made from fruit too.
For of all, in the end as a human being, it is basic knowledge for us to survive in any condition. Pulling up ourselves together to embrace the crisis by upgrading skills and knowledge to level up our life. Otherwise, without adaptation, we are unable to carry on with our lives, the most important is our future.
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- Written by Acik Mardhiyanti
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