Baum Counseling Room Announces Practical Seminar on Using Google Workspace and Gemini to Improve Efficiency in Welfare and Care Workplaces, Marking the Release of Introduction to DX in Welfare Settings

Specified Nonprofit Corporation Baum Counseling Room will hold a practical seminar on the use of Google Workspace and Gemini to mark the release of Introduction to DX in Welfare Settings, a book by Hiromichi Sasatani focused on improving operational efficiency and promoting digital transformation in welfare and nursing care workplaces. As Japan moves toward the 2040 problem and an increasingly super-aged society, the welfare and nursing care sectors face not only severe labor shortages but also heavy administrative burdens such as documentation, reporting, billing, shift scheduling, and attendance management. Workplaces that still rely on paper-based operations and person-dependent management often see increased staff workloads, leading to overtime, turnover, and hiring difficulties. The book introduces ways to promote DX without relying solely on expensive dedicated systems. It explains how to use Google Workspace and AI tools in a low-cost, workplace-friendly manner. By using smartphones and cloud tools, organizations can streamline daily records, information sharing, staff training, and management tasks, helping staff secure more time for the support and care work they should be focusing on. Introduction to DX in Welfare Settings is not merely a theoretical book. It provides concrete guidance on building systems that can be practically used in welfare workplaces. Topics include digitizing handwritten records and paper forms with Google Forms and Google Sheets so staff can enter records from smartphones between support tasks; using voice input to make documentation easier for staff who are not comfortable typing and for foreign staff; improving administrative work such as billing checks, shift management, and attendance aggregation through Google Sheets functions and cloud integrations; and using NotebookLM and other AI tools to load internal manuals and procedures so staff can quickly check the information they need. This kind of environment can reduce the burden of training new employees and help reduce variation in decision-making. Author Hiromichi Sasatani says he has repeatedly seen motivated welfare workers become exhausted by the dilemma of wanting to do more for the users in front of them while having their time taken up by daily records, meetings, and miscellaneous tasks. He states that the true purpose of DX in welfare workplaces is the restoration of humanity. Technology exists to free people from non-creative work. DX in welfare is not simply about introducing new systems; its original purpose is to secure time for staff to face users and to create an environment where people working on the front line can feel secure and fully demonstrate their abilities. Hiromichi Sasatani was born in Aichi Prefecture on June 16, 1981. He is the chairperson of Specified Nonprofit Corporation Baum Counseling Room. While studying in the Faculty of Letters at Aichi University, he became interested in psychology and left the university. He later studied counseling at a night vocational school while participating in an organization supporting school refusal and socially withdrawn individuals. At age 24, he became independent and established a residential self-reliance support facility specializing in school refusal and social withdrawal. Today, the organization operates as an NPO with 30 locations, mainly focused on disability welfare services. His previous books, Management Techniques for Welfare Corporations Where Employees Do Not Quit and Toward a Welfare Organization That Does Not Quit or Give Up: A Human Resource Development Strategy That Promises Smiles and Growth, were also well received, and he has provided extensive consulting centered on human resource development, organizational development, and management improvement. The book explains DX methods that welfare corporations and care service providers can start using quickly, with a focus on Google Workspace and AI tools. Rather than relying on individual experience or intuition, it aims to help organizations build reproducible systems that improve operational quality across the entire corporation and support sustainable operations. Purchasers of the book will also receive reader-exclusive benefits useful for promoting DX in the workplace, as well as practical examples of specific settings and usage methods. To commemorate the release, a practical DX seminar will be held for welfare and nursing care providers. It is intended for business owners, executives, facility directors, managers, DX promotion staff, and front-line leaders who have heard of DX but do not know where to start, who have introduced Google Workspace but are not making full use of it, or who want to understand how AI can be used in welfare workplaces. The seminar is titled Introduction to DX in Welfare Settings: Improving Operational Efficiency with Google Workspace & Gemini. The speaker will be Hiromichi Sasatani, chairperson of Baum Counseling Room and author of the book. The seminar will be held online via Google Meet, participation is free, and the duration is approximately 60 minutes. Main topics include the 2040 problem and issues facing the welfare sector, the basic concept of DX in welfare workplaces, why Google Workspace is easy to use in welfare settings, concrete examples for streamlining records, reports, information sharing, and staff training, practical cases of business improvement using Gemini and other AI tools, and how to make DX take root in the workplace. Applications are accepted via the special website or by phone. Seminar application form: https://sites.google.com/baum16.com/dx-firstseminar?usp=sharing. Phone: 052-521-2334. Reception hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 17:00. Contact person: Daiki Kato, Consulting Business Department. Inquiries: Specified Nonprofit Corporation Baum Counseling Room, business hours 9:00 to 18:00, excluding Saturdays and Sundays. Contact for this matter: Yuma Ogawa, Public Relations. URL: http://baum16.com/. TEL: 052-521-2334. Mail: info@baum16.com.