What Yosuke Ito showed when he won the MVP award:
Monosus' way of creating "your own work"

Hello, this is Vice President Nagai.
This month's MVP is Yosuke Ito, who is in charge of "education" at Monosus and works in the position of "executive assistant." Ito retired as the head of the Coding Factory Department about a year and a half ago, and has been active without belonging to any department.
In the first place, Monosus's method of deciding on an MVP is to have the department manager bring in one nominee from each department and hold a discussion, and Ito, who does not belong to a department, was not even considered for selection.
Meanwhile, the heads of other departments recommended him across departments, and all the department heads were happy with the award.

The decision to take over as manager and the difficult period that followed

This was almost two years ago, so it's a bit of an old story now, so I think I'll share it here.
I remember that Ito's first approach was to "leave Monosus." The Coding Factory department had many issues, but it was growing steadily and beginning to produce results. Ito himself had been a coder at the Coding Factory since he joined, and he had been rapidly rising to become a leader and then a manager, and it seemed like he was growing well along with the growth of the Coding Factory.

Why at this timing...? With this question in mind, I spoke with Ito several times. The reasons Ito talked about for quitting his job were not dissatisfaction with the current situation, but that he wanted to start a company, create a business, create an app that would have an impact on the world, or even that he wanted to mess up his own life once, or that he wanted to be someone who could earn 800 million yen (for some reason, this part was very specific. lol).
As I listened to each of his incoherent stories, I felt that Ito had something inside him that he hadn't used yet. And I would be happy if Ito would continue to work closely with me and Monosas in the future.

Of course, we did consider various things in reality. The damage caused by Ito leaving the Coding Factory business, which was progressing smoothly, was considerable at the time. We wondered whether the company should accept Ito who wanted to do such a thing, and whether it was possible for him to continue working as a Monosus employee when he had not even decided what kind of work he would be doing.
Ito also seemed to feel a sense of guilt towards the people whose burden would increase if he stepped down as department manager, and I also seemed to have a lot of conflict before he decided to retract his intention to resign and remain at Monosus.

However, Ito and Monosus accepted these challenges and took action.

And so began Ito's start, in a position where he had no idea what he was going to do (!).

The only thing I decided was to report once a week on what I had done that week and what I was going to do the next week. At first, the report meeting made no progress at all. Every time I researched various things and went to meet people, my thoughts went back and forth. However, as I thought about it and tried to move forward, I looked back on my work so far and began to focus on the joy of witnessing people's growth and the joy of being involved in it.

The joy and excitement I feel when I am imparting my knowledge and know-how to someone.
Once I realized this, I started to look for needs myself, gather students, think about lecture content, and use street academies to gradually bring what I wanted to do closer to the kind of "work" that the world was in demand.

And so Ito discovered the theme of his work: "education."

Meanwhile, it was decided that the Monosasu Juku would be held in Kamiyama again in 2017, and Ito ran to become the principal and instructor for the third term as one way of realizing the theme of his work, "education."

Ito, who teaches at Monosasu Juku, seemed to have a different kind of cheerfulness to him than when he was personally involved in projects or in his role as a department manager.

The pain and joy of deciding your own work.
And after the joy, there will probably be pain too.

At the end of last year, the third six-month Monosasu School term was successfully completed, and of the nine graduates, seven went on to join Monosasu as new employees.
In recent years, we have had a hard time recruiting new employees, considering various conditions such as expecting them to have specialized technical knowledge, practical skills such as directing customers, and empathy with Monosus's philosophy of "work and life." In the midst of all this, we are truly pleased to have nurtured many members whose desire to "join Monosus" matches the desire of each department to "come here."
Ito, who served as the school principal and lecturer for six months, not only taught classes but also at times got involved in the students' lives, must have felt a great sense of accomplishment.

A scene from the graduation ceremony for the 3rd Monosasu Juku. Both Ito and the graduates are smiling with joy, saying they have completed the six months! Their matching T-shirts say "Morosasu"...?!

This was best illustrated by the words that Hayashi spoke along with his congratulatory comments upon receiving the MVP award.
"Ito-san seems to be having a lot of fun these days."

Find what you want to do and make it happen. If there are people who want it, it will become a way to make money.
Ito created this kind of "his own job" for himself.

On the day of the MVP announcement, Ito was unable to come to work due to suspected influenza and instead participated in a Hangout.

However, Ito still has a long way to go before he can solidify the theme of "education" as "his job."
This time, the reason for the MVP award was the results of the education provided by the third Monosasu Juku, but as technology advances, the content of the teaching will change, and we hope that Ito's theme of "education" will expand beyond Monosasu's human resource education to include nurturing people who will go out into the world to improve the web and IT industries as a whole.
That's right. Education is profound and an eternal theme in any job. After enjoying it, you can then struggle to move on to the next stage (laughs).