[Internal Management] What is the Organizational Culture Committee?

Hello!
This is Inoue, a Persian cat from Beyond Shikoku Office.

At our company, we have a team called [Sosibun].
[Sosibun] is an abbreviation for [Organizational Culture Committee], and its role is to facilitate communication within the company.
So what exactly are you doing?

Sosibun's main activities

1. beyond lunch
2. coffee break
3. Luncheon
4. Holding an online drinking party

beyond lunch

Beyond Lunch, as the name suggests, involves employees having lunch together.
It is held once a month, and the schedule is adjusted and groups of about 5 people have lunch during the one-hour lunch break.
At our company, we have four bases in Osaka, Yokohama, Shikoku, and Canada,
and due to the effects of the new coronavirus outbreak, we are mainly working from home, so
online Beyond Lunch has become mainstream.
The Canadian office ends up having dinner, and of course Canadian members also eat together.
Alternatively, it may be held as a brunch to coincide with Canadian work hours.

coffee break

Coffee break will be held every Friday after the lunch meeting (12:30-13:00).
Coffee breaks are not compulsory, but are held by inviting people who are willing to participate.
We started this in order to alleviate the lack of communication between employees due to the increased number of people working from home.
During coffee breaks, we often talk about hobbies and personal updates rather than work.
Also, since everyone at Beyond speaks regardless of their department, I think the lack of communication between departments will be resolved.
In Beyond, where you can freely style your hair, there are many members who dye their hair in various colors, and
hair is often a topic of conversation.
We get excited by talking about hair care and stories about how we dyed our hair.
At Beyond, there are many people who like anime and games, so we often have fun talking about those things.

Luncheon

Beyond holds a lunch meeting every day from 12:15 to which all members can participate.
At the lunch meeting, everyone is on duty for the lunch meeting, regardless of whether it is the president or the members.
When I am on luncheon duty, I am of course in charge of facilitating the luncheon, but
I also give a 1-3 minute speech based on the topic of today's luncheon.
It is the organizational culture committee's job to come up with the ``lunchtime theme.''
The topics change approximately every six months.
The current theme has been decided to focus on finding good things among employees and praising each other.
The topics for the luncheon are as follows.

Wednesday is the day for praise, so when I finish my speech, there is spontaneous applause, creating a warm atmosphere.

I feel that
finding and knowing the good points in everyday life is very important when working together When you listen to compliments of other members,
you can learn about good things about the members that you were unaware of, such as, ``This person has such good qualities.
'' The person on duty at lunchtime is also amazing.''

online drinking party

Beyond has been holding online drinking parties once a month since the coronavirus outbreak began.
Recently,
we played a game where we randomly divided teams on ZOOM, selected members by drawing them using a roulette app, and praised the selected members' good qualities for 5 minutes.
This project was surprisingly popular and became very popular.
You can praise anything, whether it's on the outside or on the inside.
Anyway, I'll keep praising her for 5 minutes! !
President Haraoka said, ``I want more time to receive praise! It feels really good!'' (lol)
In addition, we played ``Eshiritori'' as a game that can be played online.
An unexpected artist appeared, and the game became even more exciting, making for a time filled with endless laughter.
During chat time, it has become popular to use Snapchat to transform into someone of the opposite sex.
The image is of our president, Haraoka.

As the night progresses, members who can play musical instruments begin to play and sing.
It's a truly free online drinking party, with some people even falling asleep!
We also held online hobby drinking parties.
where you fill out a questionnaire about your hobbies in advance, and then form groups of about 5 people with the same hobbies
to have a heated discussion about your hobbies.
There are various categories such as ``Anime'', ``Outdoor'', ``Music'', ``Drama/Movies'', and ``Games''.
I often don't know about the hobbies of other members, so it was a new discovery for me to talk with people who have the same hobbies.
After all, it's good that we have something in common.
We have an online drinking party once a month, so it's difficult for us as the Organizational Culture Committee to come up with the plan, but
everyone's words, ``Today was fun too~'' will save us.

Finally

The Organizational Culture Committee
holds MTG meetings several times a month to create a workplace where all members can work comfortably, and we come up with various ideas and improvement ideas.

we would like to come up with various plans and make improvements to
ensure smooth communication between members that we are not only a company that is easy to work in, but also a company where members can respect each other and
make coming to work fun!

Growing every day, moving forward every day.
I have to update myself every day! ! !
Thank you for reading to the end.