Achieving a society where 'everyone continues to grow proactively' through peer mentoring.

Our company endorses April Dream, an initiative to make April 1st a day for announcing dreams. This press release represents the dream of "Kiduku Network."

Kiduku Network Co., Ltd. (Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City https://kiduku-network.com) is creating mechanisms for continuous growth by transforming daily insights and efforts into transferable "assets." As part of this, we are challenging ourselves to realize "a society where everyone belonging to an organization continues to grow proactively" through the introduction and operational support of peer mentoring systems.

*Peer Mentoring: An initiative where employees in equal positions (peers) regularly create opportunities to learn from and support each other, with the aim of proactive growth and mutual development.

Background for Realizing the Dream

Based on the philosophy of "what can be done within the client, should be done within the client," our company provides support for building systems and assets that lead to continuous growth within clients, including system construction support, in-house training support, one-time purchase video sales, teaching material sales, and operating a platform for selling training content. This is driven by our strong belief that the value of a support company lies in "enabling clients to continue growing even after our support ends."

In this context, we often hear the following challenges from our clients: "Many employees lack initiative and desire for growth," "The training itself was good, but implementation and retention afterward are issues," "There is a weak awareness of development or a lack of development skills," and "There's no budget, or employees are too busy to implement a development system." However, there are limits to addressing these challenges with external support alone.

Initiatives targeting only specific individuals or one-off efforts are meaningless, as all members within an organization need to be proactive in their growth, engage in self-activity, reflect, and continuously develop. Furthermore, we believe that issues of initiative, desire for growth, and development awareness are often just a matter of individuals not realizing their potential or lacking interest due to a lack of successful experiences; everyone possesses a desire for growth, self-actualization, and contribution.

Therefore, what we strongly wish to expand in the future is support for the introduction and operation of peer mentoring systems that make growth and development commonplace.

The Dream We Want to Realize

Our dream is to achieve "a society where everyone continues to grow proactively," where peer mentoring is widespread in all companies and organizations, and growth and development are the norm.

Currently, peer mentoring is offered as a follow-up service for companies that have undergone training with us. However, this initiative itself is possible even without prior training, incurs almost no cost, can be implemented across all departments and levels, and yields significant visible effects and growth.

・Changes in individual awareness and behavior

・Improvement in individual and organizational performance and output

・Acquisition of individual confidence, proactive growth

1. Compulsion to practice: Regular opportunities to share efforts and reflections with others and receive comments act as a compelling force.

2. Objective insights: Comments from others on one's own efforts and reflections, and objective insights gained by reviewing the efforts and reflections of others.

3. Successful experiences: To continue new initiatives, successful experiences are essential. Accumulating successful experiences through changes and results from practice leads to motivation for the next PDCA cycle.

・What I decided often became vague, but regularly reflecting on it provided an opportunity to think and act, which was good.
・By listening to others' efforts, I gained perspectives and ideas I hadn't noticed myself. Also, my own challenges and future improvements became clear.
・Receiving feedback and opinions from everyone objectively broadened my perspective.
・There were many parts of other branches' initiatives that I could refer to, and also similar aspects, which gave me an opportunity to objectively re-evaluate my own workplace.
・By documenting things, I could confirm "what I was trying to do," "the results," and "the content of my reflections," allowing me to see my gradual growth.
・It became clear that doing this leads to that.
・Workplace problems and challenges were discovered, and by working to solve those challenges, results were achieved.
・Opportunities to share and report with other members were helpful. The feeling of being watched also motivated me.
・By proceeding with tasks with a goal in mind, and sharing that goal not just individually but also with other departments, new insights emerged. This clarified problems, allowed solutions to be shared, and led to future improvements.
・By summarizing the implementation objectives in a PDCA sheet, it became easy to comprehensively consider and judge from the current situation to practice and continuation, and I learned the importance of outputting my thoughts.

In this way, we will steadily increase the number of companies and organizations adopting peer mentoring, which promotes definite changes in awareness and behavior, results, and proactive growth, one by one, challenging ourselves to realize "a society where everyone belonging to an organization continues to grow proactively."

Future Initiatives for Realizing the Dream

We will provide support for the introduction and establishment of peer mentoring, regardless of whether companies have undergone our training.

First, we will start by proposing this to existing clients who have utilized services other than past training, and then gradually extend support to new clients.

・Introduction of peer mentoring system (support for considering operational methods, initial 3-month facilitation代行)

・Operational support for peer mentoring (support for utilizing output, support for initiatives to prevent formalization)

*"April Dream" is a project by PR TIMES where companies announce dreams they wish to realize on April 1st. We are seriously aiming to achieve this dream.

Head Office: 5F Daiichi Sun Building, 4-1-18 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka 810-0001

Tokyo Office: 2F Shinjuku Entresalon Building, 2-12-13 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0022

Representative Director: Yoshiaki Takeda

Established: January 11, 2011

Capital: 3 million yen

Tel: 092-738-5056

URL: https://kiduku-network.com

Business Activities: Consulting, training, development and sales of educational materials, video production, operation of training content platform