Online Class Notes (Olivia)

Review of previous class;

excited/exciting:

Last night, I have an exciting activity and see live rock and roll. I feel excited and people are full and the event was crowded.

exhausted / exhausting

After the event, I felt exhausted. The whole night of screaming and shouting was very exhausting.

tough/ aggressive

In my company, my leader is aggressive and can easily work with tough daily work.

In my company, my leader has an aggressive work style, he/she can easily put up with daily tough tasks.

Climbing a mountain is a tough activity/task for anyone.

I have had a tough couple of days, because of my overwhelming workload.

demanding/consuming

consumption – daily consumption of sugar should be lower than —-

Working as an IT specialist can be very demanding, because it requires a very strong knowledge base and 24/7 availability to handle any emerging crisis.

soothing

Staying in my bed is very soothing for me.

think / thing

the thing I think need to be thoroughly thought out is the thing that they also thought

Conduct v/ n

we conducted an event to promote our products for International women’s day.

student conduct/ employee conduct

gather v, gathering n.

we gathered all the information from our products and consumers to support our IT team.

holistic  adj, holistically adv

I rotated for 3 positions to have a holistic view about my job.

engage with v

Our IT always engage with business stakeholders to drive our business.

collaboration  n, collaborate

The collaboration between IT and business stakeholders make our company better.

Introducing a company:

1. name, when, where, who, company purpose

2. histories – how it expanded to —-industry, milestone moments, recognitions/awards,

3. main business areas, specialised areas

4. future strategy (opportunity + risks)

words to use:

founded, established, recognised, continued for, heritage, legacy, potential, growth,

Today I will introduce my company to you, the company I work for is called Loreal. Loreal is established in French in 1907, and it is established by a person called almond shelale, she created a healthy hair dye for the first time and shook/amazed the industry earned his name in the industry. In 1997, Loreal came to China and became the biggest cosmetic company in China and they bought a lot of brand like Lancome and Loreal Paris.

The main business areas for Loreal covers mostly cosmetics, we have four divisions in our company, we divided our brand into 4 parts, including luxury division, consumer product division, active consumer division and PPD. I think there are many opportunities/potential for Loreal to grow/expand their business, especially in today’s life, we have online and offline sales channels for the consumers. After the Corona Virus, we are paying more attention on the online channels like DY, TM and JD. I think the opportunity is that emerging technology applications will better support our business to customise better products and services to better serve our consumers needs, hence, improving sales performance.

The headwind for Loreal in China is that there are too many brands competing in the same market segment, so it is important that we emphasis on building consumers loyalty and keep them engaged/ interested, which might be tough for a cosmetic company. But last year is our 25th anniversary for Loreal China (we celebrated Loreal China’s 25th anniversary), and we won an award as we sold the highest volume of products in the whole of Asia. So we are confident as Loreal continues on its effort in the digital transformation in the future and I’m sure we will be a winning company in China, we have great prospects in China. (we will have bigger improvement in the future.)

potential n

potentially, adv

emerging adj, emerging opportunities.risks, appearing

hence, afterwards, therefore,

headwind – the risks/ potential issues that might hurt your company n

tailwind – n opposite of headwind

emphasis on – v, focus on

prospect n, prosperity (national prosperity is our goal to achieve in 2030 for China)

After graduating from Harvard, he/she has a great prospect (outlook) in his/her career.

serve, v, products to better serve our customers

anniversary n, memorable date