Our five senses Sight, Smell, Hear, Touch and Taste create and register the experiences in our mind. All of us at one time or the other has been deeply impacted by movies, which uses only two of our senses sight and hear. Imagine the impact or an experience we can create for ourselves and others using the five senses strikingly. Together, your five senses hearing, touch, taste, sight, and smell play a key role in your managerial style. Even if one or more of your senses is impaired we can use all the other senses at work.
Let’s talk about using five senses in our office. A soothing interior and layout of our office gives out a warm feeling to us and people. This way we will feel happy sitting in our office and the relations built in that office would be warm. Sweet and mild fragrance also affects people positively and anyone who enters the office will feel good. When greeting people, be genuinely happy it will show in your tone and people will feel happy when they will hear it. When we are genuinely happy people can feel the energy in our touch, when we shake hands. When we feel happy to meet someone we use more of our body to greet them. Finally for good taste give them some sweets or mouth freshener which will leave a good taste about our meeting.
Similarly, we can use five senses in our personal life as well. If we pay attention to our grooming and dress smartly, people will be happy to see us. Everyone likes to see beautiful and smart people. Personal hygiene is an important aspect, a stinking person can really turn off anyone, be it body odour or bad breath. If you are a smoker or have bad breath, use mouth freshener regularly. For body odour use deodorants and perfumes, you can carry one in your bag for regular usage. But also remember the fragrance should be mild and not over powering, it should not feel that you have bathed in the perfume. Excessive fragrance gives headaches to people. When meeting people always be genuinely happy and interested, it will show when we will greet them. Everyone likes to listen genuine words to pleasant voice and genuine words of expression. While greeting people shake hand firmly with genuine interest, do not extend few fingers for hand shake it is considered rude and says you are not interested to meet the person. In personal life wherever possible, it is always better if we hug the other person. The more body we use in meeting the person more interest and happiness it shows. Finally, share something to eat or drink with the other person. Share a chocolate or sweet, go out to eat or even for a coffee. This will create one more experience with the person.
We can see, touch, smell and taste our food and drink but we cannot hear them. This is considered one of the reasons that we do cheers before drinking and sizzlers have smoke and sound coming out of it. It is an experience where all five senses are used.