Message from the President July.2018

We can take note of many things when we learn something. Whether to leave such things at the stage of realization or apply them to the next action is an extremely important point.

A special feature on learning was prepared for the summer 2018 issue of SYORYU（in-house newsletter）, our quarterly in-house newsletter. What I always think with regard to learning is that it is a process that ends when the things that are learned are connected to results. For example, awareness gained through training is a result of the passive act of receiving instruction only. We can connect the awareness gained to results by putting it into practice, absorbing it and becoming able to make the most of it actively.

I would like you to at least aim to ultimately reach a level where you can teach something you have learned to other people.

In my opinion, there are four steps involved in learning things:
1. Understanding concepts: gaining knowledge
2. Concrete understanding: trying out knowledge gained and turning it into an experience
3. Understanding effectiveness: absorbing knowledge and connecting it to results
4. Essential understanding: becoming able to teach things learned to other people and influence them (the condition of possessing good judgment)

At MEITEC, engineers in active service serve as in-house training lecturers.

Opportunities to learn from engineers on active duty have been extremely popular among trainees because they can apply the things they have learned to practice immediately. Let me look at this setup from a different angle and consider what such training means to our in-house training lecturers. They cannot act as lecturers with incomplete understanding because trainees are engineers themselves. The situation puts pressure on them as well. I believe that lecturers, who satisfy trainees beyond their expectations by stocktaking numerous accumulated experiences and applying their stored knowledge fully to training details, take delight in seeing their great satisfaction for those reasons. They can also gain results called new knowledge, experience and personal growth through their roles as lecturers. That is why lecturing is definitely worth trying.

Our engineers who have served as in-house training lecturers say in chorus, “You would be better off acting as an in-house training lecturer at least once.” Experiencing the tasks of an in-house training lecturer can be called precisely learning for the purposes of taking on a personal challenge and actualizing the condition of possessing good judgment mentioned above.

In the summer 2018 issue of the quarterly SYORYU（in-house newsletter）, we introduce employees who are trying to learn in various ways, their activities and person outside the MEITEC Group who are taking on the challenge of increasing the learning opportunities in our society. Please use this issue at all costs to learn from the things that matter the most and the things that interest you the most at present.