The most impressive words

 

Yesterday (7/5/2023) was the first ISOWA Fellowship social gathering of this year.

 

The theme of this year's meeting was "sharing policies with employees," a topic that should be a concern for all managers.

 

The theme was discussed exclusively among management members.

 

What surprised me was the high level of self-disclosure by everyone.

Instead of just saying, "This is how we share (or have shared) our policies," they candidly said, "We are having trouble sharing our policies with our employees.”

I felt a great deal of empathy with their frank opinions.

 

No matter how wonderful a policy is, unless it is shared with employees and they put it into practice, it is nothing more than just an armchair theory.

Sharing policies is an eternal challenge for managers.

 

The tricky part is not knowing if the employees understand the company policies.

I can only guess, so therefore the only way to know the truth is to actually ask them.　

However, even if employees say they really feel empathy with the policies, they only think so, and even they don’t know if they really understand it.

Because the source of the policies is within me, no matter how many times I explain it, I have never been confident that I have successfully completely shared the essence of our company policies to all my employees.

In addition, do the employees see that “our president really wants to implement the policy?”

 

In response to this question, I was most impressed by the words of Mr. H, a member of our staff at the social gathering.

He said, "I decided to join ISOWA because I wanted to work with people like them.　

What I do is important, but who I work with makes a big difference in my motivation.”

 

Perhaps the feeling of "I want to work with this person (the president)" is the best way to share the policies.