Your Motto｜Sharestart and Learning Organization Training Case Study

Introduction: Sharestart and the Learning Organization

At Holo Solution, we believe that people are the most important asset of an organization.

For this reason, we hold a monthly corporate Sharestart activity.

It is not simply an employee event, nor is it a one-way training session. Instead, each activity is designed to create an environment where employees can learn independently, think actively, express their ideas, and gain a sense of achievement through work and interaction.

When individuals are able to learn autonomously, make judgments, and communicate their observations and ideas through sharing and discussion, the organization gradually develops its own capacity for growth.

Rather than relying solely on the decisions and management of a small number of people, a company can continue to adapt through the learning, interaction, and adjustment of its members.

This is one of the key ideas behind a learning organization: organizational learning does not exist only in formal courses or training programs. It also takes place through everyday work, reflection, communication, and shared experience.

We believe an organization is a living system.

Just like a living organism, it can recover when something goes wrong, regain balance after periods of excitement or disruption, and gradually discover new ways to move forward through repeated learning and interaction.

This is why Holo Solution continues to promote Sharestart and learning organization activities.

For records of previous learning organization activities, please see: <<Learning Organization｜Corporate Sharestart>>

This Month’s Learning Organization Topic: Your Motto

The theme of this month’s corporate Sharestart session was:

“Your Motto”

Most people have at least one phrase that they return to when making decisions or reminding themselves how they want to live.

It may come from a book, a movie, a family member, or simply a sentence encountered at an important moment in life.

Thinking about your own motto can be a way of understanding yourself more clearly.

By looking back at the phrases we believed in during different stages of life, we can observe how our values, priorities, and ways of seeing the world have changed over time.

Choosing a new motto for the present can also become a way of setting direction for the next stage of life.

This direction does not necessarily concern career goals or performance.

It is closer to asking:

“How do I want to face life as the person I am today?”

How Do We Discover Our Most Honest Motto?

Before asking participants to formally write down their mottos, the facilitator used a simple method to “borrow” some clues from everyone first.

The method was surprisingly straightforward:

Look at the status message below each person’s LINE profile name.

Some people change their status frequently, while others keep the same sentence for years.

These short phrases, written casually and without the pressure of a formal questionnaire, may sometimes reveal more about what a person genuinely values at that moment.

The frequency, wording, and tone of these status messages can also reflect changes in personality, mood, and life priorities.

This simple warm-up encouraged everyone to consider a basic question:

What is the phrase I truly keep reminding myself of?

Sharing Our Mottos

One participant shared the concept of “donkanryoku,” or the power of being less sensitive to external noise.

Strictly speaking, it may not be a traditional motto, but the idea behind it can still function as a personal guiding principle.

In a world filled with social media and constant messaging, people can experience a large amount of interpersonal interaction without even leaving home.

A careless comment, an emotionally charged conversation, or even a message that does not receive the response we expected can easily lead to overthinking and emotional exhaustion.

The idea of donkanryoku does not mean becoming indifferent.

Instead, it can be understood as the ability to return attention to what truly matters and to avoid allowing every external stimulus to consume emotional energy and time.

For people who are highly sensitive to the emotions and opinions of others, this kind of mindset can become a valuable reminder.

Another participant shared the phrase:

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

From the most direct interpretation, the message is simple: if we want a different outcome, we need to try a different approach rather than repeating the same method.

But another perspective emerged during the discussion:

If we never repeat anything, how do we achieve mastery?

If someone performs the same action one thousand or ten thousand times, will the result truly remain identical?

Practice, manufacturing, design, sports, and professional experience all involve repetition, yet each repetition can generate subtle differences, accumulated knowledge, and improvement.

When the same motto is placed within different life experiences, it can lead to very different interpretations.

That contrast was one of the most interesting parts of the activity.

A Motto Is Not the Answer—It Is a Way to Understand One Another

The purpose of this activity was not to identify the “best” motto.

The same phrase can influence people in very different ways and may even produce completely opposite interpretations.

What matters is the process of thinking and sharing.

While discussing their mottos, some participants also shared the experiences behind them, the situations that shaped those beliefs, and why certain phrases had remained meaningful over time.

Through these stories, we were not simply hearing a sentence.

We were learning about each person’s experiences, values, and ways of making sense of the world.

In daily work, we may know what a colleague is responsible for and what they are good at, but we may not understand why they think the way they do.

Simple activities like this create a kind of space that is often missing from routine work.

They allow people to understand one another beyond tasks and responsibilities.

Communication becomes not only about “what should we do?”, but also about “how do we think?”

What a Motto Can Teach Us About a Learning Organization

A learning organization does not always require complex courses or large-scale training programs.

Sometimes, a simple question such as:

“What is your motto?”

is enough to encourage people to reflect on their experiences, organize their thoughts, and learn more about one another through conversation.

Self-awareness, reflection, expression, and listening may seem like small actions, but they are all part of organizational learning.

For Holo Solution, the purpose of corporate Sharestart is not to teach employees a new technical skill every month.

The goal is to continuously create opportunities for people to think, express themselves, listen to others, and build mutual understanding.

When these behaviors gradually become part of everyday work, learning is no longer limited to a single activity or training session.

It begins to become part of the organization’s culture.