Will repeating [praise] make you like your job more? What is the culture of experience and praise?
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Hello!
This is Inoue, a Persian cat from Beyond Shikoku Office.
I participated in the 2nd Next Generation Leadership Development Training Seminar!
This may be a bit sudden, but do you like your job?
Managers, do you have any subordinates in your company or department who are clearly losing motivation?
To be honest, when I first joined the company, I dreaded going to work every day.
But now I can answer that I like my job.
Why is that?
What does it take for employees to love their jobs?
Imagine the vision you want to achieve
I believe that having a goal and imagining what it will be like as you work makes work rewarding. I
believe that rewarding work does not come from the content of the work, but from your own mindset.
A goal is to identify what you are not currently able to do or what you have not yet achieved, and take action to achieve it.
When setting a goal, you need to derive the following three things.
Think about the causes using Missy and analyze them using a logic tree.
- Problems (current issues)
- Cause (why the problem is occurring)
- Countermeasures (think of measures to solve the problem)
It's important to consider what steps you can take to achieve your goals.
You don't have to work alone to achieve your goals.
It's also important to rely on your superiors, seniors, and sometimes junior colleagues and coworkers.
My current goal, roughly speaking, is
to "develop and support people."
Why did "develop and support people" become my goal?
It's because I was assigned to mentor new graduates starting in August and to provide on-the-job training for new employees starting in September.
My biggest problem is my limited IT skills. I
also have many areas of immaturity as a working professional.
This is because I was hired mid-career and joined the founding team of the Shikoku office, so I've never had a mentor or on-the-job training, and I
don't know how to actually accomplish my duties.
a solution , I need to increase my IT skills input, obtain qualifications, and deepen my knowledge. I
also need to make an effort to build good relationships.
What are the characteristics of a company where many people love their work?
What kind of company do you think has many people who love their work?
After taking the training, I nodded in agreement and found that the defining characteristic of a company with many people who love their work is a company with a "culture of mutual praise."
of doing work and receiving praise,
we naturally come to love our work.
about the importance of giving praise my previous blog, "Praise Activities," so please take a look.
I mentioned the following points as important points to praise during training:
■Points to praise
- Praise them immediately when they do something good
- Praise the person (and their actions and efforts)
- Praise specific actions (praise what they did well)
- Praise them even when they fail (communicate expectations for the future)
- Praise the way you do things (praise the process)
- Praise repeatedly
I can relate to this.
When I still hated my company, a senior colleague praised me, saying
, "You work so hard that I don't know how you manage to get all that work done during working hours
.
That one sentence saved me, or rather, it helped me break out of the shell of not being able to like my job.
It's strange, isn't it?
I had been struggling for months with not being able to like my job, and yet one word from just one person saved me.
I think the fact that I had a lot of respect for that senior colleague and saw him as someone I wanted to be is a big factor.
Japanese people are somehow not good at giving or receiving praise. This
is because Japan has a culture of humility.
But try praising a colleague at work, even if it's just with simple choice of words. You
'll surely feel a surge of energy from it.
The act of "praising" doesn't just make the person who is praised happy;
it can also make the person who gives the praise happy.
I believe that people who can "praise" others are people who can find the "good points" in others, and such people appear to shine.
People who know many of the "good points" of others make others happy and are happy themselves.
The culture of praise practiced at Beyond
Our company has a lunch meeting every day.
At the meeting, the person in charge of the lunch meeting gives a short talk on a topic that has been decided for the day.
On odd-numbered Fridays "This week's best XX," and on even-numbered Fridays, the topic is
"Someone I want to thank recently." At this time, we practice employee praise for employee.
In fact, these short talks at lunch meetings create a warm and relaxed atmosphere, and everyone applauds.
Also, something I practice every day is wasting "thank you." (laughs)
There are things that someone has to do at work, but anyone can do, right?
Even for those small things, when I notice that someone did it first, I always say "thank you."
Conversely, when someone says "thank you" to me during those tasks, I say "thank you" back. I say "thank you" back
with the feeling,
"Thank you for noticing what I did" and
"Thank you for saying thank you." It's a small thing, but there are actually a lot of people who can't do this small thing.
People who can say "thank you" are the ones who receive a lot of "thank you."
"Thank you" is a magic word that doesn't make anyone feel bad, and I think it's the easiest compliment to give.
Following the Second Next-Generation Leadership Training
We talked about
coming up with your own catchphrase! What is your selling point?
It seems that if you have a catchphrase that conveys what kind of person you are in one sentence, you will be better at selling yourself.
Hmm... what's my catchphrase...? ?
Maybe I should say "I'm just a communication genius"? (lol) It might be
a good idea to not only come up with your own catchphrase, but also ask people around you what their image of you is.
It might also help you see yourself from a different angle.
I will have a catchphrase too, and I will do my best to be a person who is as good as the image of the person I'm portraying!
Growing every day, moving forward every day.
I have to update myself every day! ! !
Thank you for reading to the end.
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