What is the aim of IT companies that implement in-house English training programs?

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before I knew itthe person in charge of English language trainingThis is Kikuchi from the Systems Solutions Department, and

Beyondan internal English training program where employeeshasduring work hoursonline English instructionreceive.

English language trainingtwice a weekis held

 

This time,"Why does Beyond, an IT company, offer English language training?"we'll discuss

I wrote an article about what I thought as an English training instructor

 

 

A training officer's thoughts on "Why IT company Beyond provides English training"

To put it simply,

the company業philosophy and achieve the company missionI believe it is

 

 

What made me think about "Why do I take English training?"

IMy motivation for thinking about the reasons for conducting English language training began when.

 

until I became the person in charge of English language traininghad never considered why my company provided English language training.

The reason is thatEnglish language training was already a company policy when I joined the company a year ago.

(the English language training program started three years agoApparently,

 

So until now, I

「This company offers English training for people who want to study English」

That was all I thought, and Ididn't really care what the purpose of the English language training was.

 

However,now it's necessary to understand and consider the purpose of the English language training.

because

「What a great deal to receive free English lessons!!」

With this in mind (and a sense of mission because there were so few participants), I, a heavy user of English training,

at the timeI stood out in a situation where there were almost no attendees, I was appointed to the English language training coordinator position.

 

Therefore, as the person in charge of English language training,employeesIto participate in English language training.

"Please participate in the English training!"Since they are calling out,

it was necessary to understand the purpose of the English language trainingI felt

 

 

We asked the president, "Why did we start English training?"

in the first placeWhy did I even start paying for English language training?

When I asked the president about this, the answer I got was even more moving than I expected

 

starting English language trainingfor.カナto achieve their goal of opening a branch in Canadaめ"was

(I suspect that in order to open a branch in Canada, they thought, "Let's learn to speak English, which is the official language of Canada!")

 

of opening a branch in CanadaNow that we have achieved our goal,

It's moving to imagine how united we all were at the time, striving to establish a branch in Canada

 

However, achieving the goal meansthe reason for starting the English language training has also been resolvedthat

So, now that things have settled down,is it necessary to continue the English language training?

definitely be an English language training coordinator, including myselfthere shouldI believe

 

*Photo of the exterior of the Canadian office

[Conclusion] Why take English training?

As I wrote at the beginning,the reason why Beyond conducts English training, from my perspective as the person in charge of English training,is

 

Our company's "corporate philosophy" isto continue creating and supporting together.

We act in accordance with this idea, and our "mission" isto make the world a little "easier."

 

I think this is to achieve this

 

in our corporate philosophy,"to create and support together,

not only our customers and partners,This includes.

 

As mentioned above, we currently have a branch in Canada, and currently have two employees who were hired locally

At this stage, there are no members in the Canadian branch who cannot speak Japanese,

at some pointa possibility that someone who needs to communicate in English will join the companyThere's

 

When that happens,in order to communicate with the people you are creating with,

it's necessary to be able to communicate in EnglishI believe

 

So why does Beyond have a branch in Canada?

The purpose of opening the Canadian branch was to "eliminate night shifts due to time differences," but that was not all

because our mission, "to make the world a little easier," is"to set our stage on the.

 

To make the world a better place,the universal languagethere will be situations where we need to use English,

Beyond to succeed in hisIn order forbecome necessary.

 

As the person in charge of English training, I believe these are the reasons why our company provides English training

 

 

[Bonus] The reason we came to this conclusion was because of the employees' opinions

we had previously conducted among all employeesthe responses to a surveyI had the opportunity to look at

The survey items included the following: (I will briefly introduce the survey results below.)

 

• Do you use English in your work?　(Approximately 90% answered "I think it's somewhat necessary" or "It's essential.")
• Are you interested in learning English?　(Approximately 80% answered "yes.")
• Reasons for being interested in learning English　(various reasons such as wanting to be able to read English documents used at work, wanting to broaden life choices, wanting to interact with people from various countries, wanting to maintain the English skills gained through studying abroad, or wanting to have more foreign colleagues)
• What people seek in English language training　(various reasons such as wanting to learn about foreign cultures, wanting to start from the beginner level, wanting opportunities to speak, wanting to learn English useful for programming, wanting to learn business conversation, wanting to improve reading skills, etc.)

 

My first impression when I saw the results was, "There's a lot going on."

Do you use English at work? Are you interested in learning English? Why do you want to learn English? What do you want from English training?

on each aspectvariousforopinionsる中,all employees to participate in English language trainingwhat the reason should beI was wondering

*All employees will be able to participate in the new system starting in June (excluding employees who already have sufficient English proficiency)

 

At that time, I heard the words "corporate philosophy and mission" that the president mentioned at the English training meeting

all participants have in commonるthingis that they all work under the same "corporate philosophy and mission."

I realized that was the case

 

Therefore, in order to achieve the common goal of all Beyond employees, "Continue to create and support together, making the world a little easier,"

receiving English training as part of my job would allow me to learn what was necessary to fulfill our "philosophy and mission."I thought that

 

I think some people feel embarrassed to speak English in front of others

(Because that's me...)

In order to "create together in the world," I think there will be opportunities to speak English in front of multiple people,

I think it would be good to practice this during English training

(English language training is a place where you can make as many mistakes as you like!)

[Bonus 2] An overview of our English training

Our English training is currently run as follows:

 

Date and Time：

Every Wednesday 12:30~13:15 / Every Thursday 12:30~13:15

* Conducted during business hours

 

Classification：

Beginners class (Wednesday) / Intermediate/Advanced class (Thursday)

 

teacher：

Maya-san (an acquaintance of our company's director)

Currently living in the US with her American husband

So I'm getting some English lessons online ^^

Maya Sensei's husband also works in the IT industry, so she seems to have a great grasp of IT terminology!

 

Currently, we operate under the rule that all people who need to learn English must participate in the English training described above at least once a month

 

lastly

In this article, we have introduced the purpose of English training, focusing on its philosophy and mission

When working in the engineering or IT industry, being exposed to primary sources of information in English is a great advantage

 

I hope to publish another article about English training someday

We hope that the contents of this article will be useful to companies and others considering introducing English training