Personal Message from Tak Kawatani: Some Day You Must Decide…

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Let's face the fact. Japanese companies Do NOT necessarily make everyone happy. Some fit in, some don't. You know their culture is so dissimilar to yours.

 

That's their “strength” in areas including a harmonious culture and consensus-based decision-making but “weakness” in building a dynamic team and aggressive soldiers because of the same reasons.

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Aggressive action is a good virtue in many Western or even Asian businesses. But it is not in Japan as you know. They like the opposites: reticent, cautious, reflective types who try to "fit in". However, many result-oriented individuals in today's world do NOT think it is their job to fit in. They challenge their bosses and the bosses like that.

 

But you will be shunned in a Japanese company doing so. You know that too.

So you must ask yourself one last time -- why you have decided to join your company at the very beginning. Whatever issues you are having now, you believe there must be something you can do to turn the situation around. That’s why you are reading my message now.

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After you have learnt deep knowledge and practical skills from this seminar and change your actions from a "mutual" benefit point of view for a reasonable period of time (they need time to change too), if you still don't see any hope, at some point, you need to judge --- accept it, give it up or move on.

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Frankly, your success rate will be 50/50. 50/50 is a very good chance!!  There ARE certain things you can do to turn your situation around to make you happy while making them happy at the same time.

 

Two hours is short, but I believe you will learn a lot if you are serious in making your life better. If you still have respect to what Japanese culture can offer to your work and life in the midst of egos and antagonism, I want you to stay on happily.

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How This Seminar Can Help You Turn Around the Situation (what you will learn):

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1. Dilemmas of Non-Japanese Employees’ and Japanese Bosses’ in Japan and Abroad

・lost venues to get trained to be a leader before leaving Japan

・absence of honest conversations about mutual future 同床異夢

・overseas subsidiaries as a place of extraterritoriality 治外法権

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2. Who fits in and who doesn’t with Japanese companies?

・behaviours and attitudes they frown upon and treasure

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3. MUST Actions and Skills to Increase Recognition in Japanese Organisations 

・how to make your bosses and customers realise your proactiveness is not for self-promotion but simply for doing a good job (the definition of “a good job” is culture-bound)

・how to communicate your concerns about the future of the company in terms of business expansion and

localisation of employees without backing them into a corner

・how to become the “indispensable” person whom they have no choice but to depend upon

・how to let three functions of sodan 相談or consultation for synergy work maximumly well (strategic

move and benefit of sodan is little understood)

・special Japanese phrases to open the door of their honne 本音 or true intentions (but it is your job to enter honne!)

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4. Three Success Factors: Reliability-Dependability-Trustworthiness

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5. Group coaching about personal issues and questions

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Join this program to find the clues to your questions unanswered for a long time. I will show you how to take a step forward to your satisfying and meaningful career!!

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Remember mastering how to shine in Japanese companies will prepare you to shine in any global companies seeking ways to survive in an increasingly VUCA world today (Vague, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous)!

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Sincerely,

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Tak Kawatani

Crosscultural Management Consultant Who Has Trained 20,000 Japanese & Local Managers Globally

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