Kadowaki Natsumi is steadily growing day by day.

Hello, this is Kojima from the Coding Factory Club (hereinafter referred to as CF).
This month's MVP was decided to be Natsumi Kadowaki from the Compact Football Club.

Time flies, and it's been almost a year since I graduated from Monosasu Juku (3rd term) and started working at Monosasu. Over the past year, I have grown steadily and honestly, and I always approach every project with a cheerful and sincere attitude. As a result, I have seen visible results in my work over the past few months. This attitude and results were recognized, and I was awarded this prize.

Every day, honestly and steadily

If it was another member, I might have chosen words like "quickly and steadily getting stronger...", but in her case, the words that come to mind are "growing steadily." Maybe it's because I tend to see things from a parent's perspective, but she's really faithful to the basics and has a heartwarming, pleasant frankness about her, which makes me want to teach her carefully and engage with her, so I think it's a good spiral.

Every day, sincerely and diligently, faithfully following the basics

I think another big reason why this positive spiral has been created is that we are faithful to the basics, or rather, we carefully follow the basics.
For example, he organizes his questions in advance and asks them, listens carefully to what people say (listens intently and digests every word), takes notes of what he understands and what inspires him, chews it over again and tries it out right away - I get the impression that he really does these things carefully, one by one, every day. He's not someone who understands things quickly, and he's not the type to be able to expand one thing into ten, but he steadily builds up what he hears and understands every day, so when I look back and add it up, I can see that he's made a solid accumulation and there's a sense of stability.

What I think is even better is that they are always asking questions to improve. When they achieve one thing, they don't stop there, but ask the next question so that they can improve even more from the view they see.
In the CF department, after joining the company, there is an OJT period for six months under the supervision of a senior employee, and in the monthly OJT interviews (where the employee, the trainer, and the manager reflect on the OJT for that month and talk about issues, questions, and problems), it is clear that the employee was able to do this this month, that they found this difficult, and that they would like to try this next time so that they can do this. What is interesting here is that there are walls or "CF issues" that are hit one after another in the process of becoming able to do the job, but in general, they are stepping on those "issues" without fail?! They are stepping on them carefully. So, what did they step on this month? What did they worry about? How did they solve it and acquire it? I was personally looking forward to hearing about these things in the monthly OJT interviews, and it really made me smile that they really exuded a sense of "growing up".

Kadowaki (right) was selected as the MVP and received a comment from Kojima.

Taking on new challenges

Seeing them grow up makes us want to give them various challenges (demons),
I asked them to do mass production projects of several hundred pages, and to be a spot instructor at Monosasu Juku (Git, Sass, Gulp course). I thought that they would feel anxious or worried that it would be difficult, but to my surprise, when I asked them about each project, they said "I would love to do it" without any hesitation and with sparkling eyes. That was also surprising, but another thing that surprised me was that not only did they complete the project properly, but when I asked them how it went after they were done, they said "It was hard, but it was fun" and "This was the problem that didn't go well, so I'll do it like this next time," and they said it with sparkling eyes again. When I actually tried each of them, I think that they were really hard and had a lot of down moments along the way, but I thought that their attitude of finding fun and facing things positively without losing motivation and their attitude of trying to move on to the next thing was really wonderful.

And now,

A year has passed like this. Next year, the 4th batch of Monosasu Juku students will join, so they will become "seniors," but whether they become seniors or not, they should be confident and not stressed out.
Her sparkling eyes and big smile are truly beautiful, so I sincerely hope that she will keep up this feeling, remain consistent and unwavering, make the most of her seniors, juniors, managers, the company, and the company kitchen (lol), and continue to forge ahead as a beloved character in CFs.
I will also do my best to keep watching over and supporting the team so that those smiles don't fade, and to work together with them to create a wonderful team.

Kadowaki poses with a smile while making bechamel sauce in the kitchen.