[Organizational Culture Committee] What kind of training facilitates communication?
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Hello!
I'm Inoue, the Persian cat at Beyond Shikoku office.
Five new graduates joined our company in April.
In April, May, and June, the Organizational Culture Committee (Soshibun), to which I belong
, conducted training sessions once a month to promote communication across departmental boundaries.
Part 1: Searching for the Same Thing
"Finding Similarities" is a game where each group introduces themselves and tries to find common ground with each other.
We divided into groups of about five people and played the game.
All five people need to have something in common.
So, it's surprisingly difficult to find something that everyone has in common, even though it seems easy.
The purpose of Finding Similarities is for members who have just started working together to get to know each other.
You might discover that you have the same hobbies or the same favorite foods as someone you didn't expect, which makes for lively conversation.
When people find common ground, they suddenly feel a sense of closeness to that person.
The aim is to use this sense of closeness to help people quickly become closer.
Part 2: Praise Jobs
"Homejozu" is a game where you roll dice, draw a card of a specified color according to the number rolled,
and use the word written on the card to compliment someone.
Even members who were still new to the company and had little interaction with others participated, but
everyone was creative in using the specified words to compliment others.
This term's Soshibun theme is "Complimenting," so the game was conducted
with the aim of focusing on the wonderful aspects of others rather than their negative ones.
It's easy to find someone's flaws.
However, finding someone's wonderful qualities
is difficult unless you have emotional space and a perspective that allows you to appreciate what's great about that person.
The goal of using Homejozu cards to consciously compliment others is to encourage people to practice "complimenting" in their daily work.
Being complimented regularly gives people a sense of "acknowledgment."
Once this feeling of "acknowledgment" takes root, they become more accepting of "criticism.
" The effects and wonderful benefits of "complimenting" are discussed in the previous blog post, so please take a look.
Does it boost self-esteem? ! A Persian cat has started a praise-giving lifestyle.
Can repeated praise make you like your job? Based on real-life experiences and the culture of praise
, "Homejozu" is a fun game to play with people you don't know well,
as well as with people you know well, so I recommend it!
Part 3: Anger Management
Anger management is a game where you predict and guess how angry the parent is about an angry event described in a prompt. You
get 2 points if you guess exactly the anger level chosen by the parent, and 1 point if you're close.
As the name suggests, it's a game about managing your own anger. The goal of
anger management is to learn about the differences between what makes you angry and what degree of anger you feel, and to realize that
"you're different from others," so that you can manage your own anger.
Everyone has different triggers for anger.
When it comes time to check your answers, some people will understand why the parent chose that anger level, while
others will think, "Ah, that's another way of looking at it." You might be surprised
that someone who seems mild-mannered is actually angry, or that someone who seems short-tempered isn't.
Discovering these unexpected sides of people is one of the interesting aspects of anger management.
When you work at a company, you're bound to encounter things that you don't agree with.
In those situations, anger management can be helpful.
It's said that anger peaks about six seconds after you feel it.
When you feel annoyed, try taking six deep breaths to calm yourself down. You
'll likely find that your anger level has decreased compared to when you first felt it. In both
work and personal life, it's easy to lose control and yell, but this can damage relationships.
Depending on the relationship, it can take a long time to repair damaged relationships.
Therefore, anger management is important in daily life.
Building relationships while understanding that "you and I have different values" is something that seems basic but is actually quite difficult.
Thank you card
After each training session, we set aside about 15 minutes for everyone to write a thank-you card.
I believe that expressing gratitude, even for small things, is very important.
There are many opportunities to say thank you in our daily work. I decided to distribute these thank-you cards
to our new employees so that they could experience the importance of saying thank you and the feeling of happiness that comes back to them when they do!
In the future, I would like to spread the use of thank-you cards not only in new employee training but throughout Beyond as a whole. I believe that
expressing gratitude for things that we may not be able to say face-to-face can boost each other's motivation, reaffirm that we are needed by each other, and reaffirm the importance of each other's roles.
If there are any companies that are actually using thank-you cards internally, I would love to hear about your success stories and failures!
Finally
This year, for the first time, we implemented a training program for new graduates at Socibun.
Since there was no precedent, planning the training was challenging.
Even more challenging was that, because the participants were located in different locations, there were always some who participated online
, requiring some minor rule changes to ensure the training was conducted effectively online.
The Socibun members worked hard to create this training, so we were truly happy when the participants
said things like, "It was fun!" and "I want to do it again!"
In the future, we plan to use "Praise Jobs" and "Anger Management" in team-based training sessions and exchange events between bases
Growing every day, moving forward every day.
I must update myself every single day!!!
Thank you for reading to the end.
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