This month's MVP is Kagawa Yuutaro, who is beginning to put down roots in Kamiyama.

My name is Kurihara and I work in the Webmaster Support Department (hereinafter referred to as the WS Department).
This month's MVP was awarded to Yuutaro Kagawa, who works at the Kamiyama Satellite Office.

Kagawa also received the MVP award last year, when he was recognized for his significant contributions to educating team members and stabilizing large-scale projects when the Kamiyama office was newly established.
Last time, we strongly recommended him for the MVP award as well, but this time, our desire for him to receive the MVP award was even stronger than before, and he was able to receive it.

As the "MVP of the Month" is "an honorable award given to the person who is considered to have worked the hardest this month," Kagawa won the award because he worked the hardest!

Not just this month, but the past few months? Years? It has been running at full speed.

Thank you for all your actions!

The reason he received the award is because of all of Kagawa's recent actions. He has performed his role properly, of course, but the reason he received the award is because he has acted with the entire WS department in mind.

Not only did you go out of your way to meet your personal and team budgets, but also to meet the department budget; when someone became ill, you took over the project and investigated various options to avoid causing inconvenience to our customers, even though we were already at full capacity; and not only did you handle that project, you also adjusted resources... I'm sure this month was a bigger burden than ever before, but I'm grateful that you made everything go smoothly.

And he handled it all responsibly, as if it were his own problem.

In addition, the WS Department has teams in two locations, Yoyogi and Kamiyama, and in order to improve team communication, they proactively plan general meetings within the department.

Normally, I should be supporting Kagawa on projects and team building, but instead, I'm in the position of being supported by him, and I feel both sorry and grateful.

It also gives me emotional support (laughs).

I want to become a strong, grown-up person.

I would like to tell you a little about Kagawa's personality.
Let's go back in time, my first encounter with Kagawa was about 5 years ago. He had no experience in the web industry and wanted to learn from scratch, so he came to an interview at Monosus. He still had a huge piercing in his left ear (he had taken it off for the interview), showing a glimpse of his youth, but

• A vague desire to learn about the Web and acquire a skill
• A vague sense of honesty

I wanted to work with him, so we started working together five years ago.

Over the past five years, he has had many experiences and experienced many changes in his environment, and has now grown to the point where he is in charge of managing the Kamiyama team.

He is now in his 30s and a grown-up. When I talk to him, who sometimes stays up late at night, I hear him say, "You're not an adult."

When I asked them why, I heard things like, "They have absolutely no common sense as a working adult," "They have too little experience as a working adult," and "As people..."

From my perspective, Kagawa is a mature guy. He's the most mature guy on the Kamiyama team (overtaking me, who's the oldest).

In the case of Kagawa, if we compare him to a tree, in the three years since he joined the company he has honed his design, direction, and coding skills, and has worked hard to grow the trunk and branches.
In the past two years, I have often struggled with various issues, not just about projects, but about my stance on work, my way of thinking, and my team. (Even now...)

He is currently in a period where he is learning interpersonal skills in order to firmly establish roots in his work, and I feel that this is steadily helping him become stronger.

I think the scenery I see now is completely different from the scenery I saw when I moved from Yoyogi to Kamiyama two years ago. (I'm even seeing scenery I don't want to see...)

This is something they can see because they have put down roots, and although I don't know if this is adulthood, they are someone you can rely on and are not afraid to face the reality of any situation.

The good things about Kagawa Yuutaro.

I think the good thing about Kagawa is that he doesn't overestimate himself.

He is always humble and says, "I still have a long way to go." He always has a set of skills that he is aiming for, and he is able to work hard toward that goal. He evaluates himself objectively, not just on a personal level. I think that because he has a set position for himself, he is able to continue taking steps to gain experience and improve his skills in order to reach his goal, just as he did when he joined the company.

In the web industry, technology and knowledge are updated at a rapid pace, and even if you learn something, it soon becomes outdated. In this environment, Kagawa, who does not set his own limits or scope of responsibility, always maintains a learning attitude, recognizes his own shortcomings, and takes action to make up for them, may be a person suited to the web industry.

I also think that his attitude of "listening to other people's opinions openly" is a good thing.
When I give advice, they listen to me and take action. When I don't understand the reasoning, they ask me questions and try to understand the reasoning and intentions, so that the next time the same situation occurs, it will be easier to deal with it.

He is a very good guy not only at work but also as a person.
He's a hopeless guy when he drinks.

It's hard to describe, but he's a good guy, and just saying he's friendly is not enough to describe him. First of all, he doesn't make enemies among his teammates, and there's probably no one who dislikes Kagawa.
Is that the human side of Kagawa? What is it?

Being human, of course there are times when I endure too much and get irritated. Sometimes this can leak out, but the adult Kagawa has been able to hold it in a lot more recently (laughs).

Kagawa's wife once said this.
"There's no one as nice as him. He's really a good guy."
Of course, Kagawa doesn't remember it because they were drinking, but I think it's wonderful that a wife can describe her husband like that, and I also think it's wonderful that Kagawa is such a person.

I believe that Kagawa's personality is reflected in his everyday actions and is what led to him winning the MVP award this time.

Finally, let's bring it back to reality. Let's continue to work together to make the WS Club even more successful so that it can become a strong, self-sufficient club with a trunk, branches, leaves, and roots!