Asking a baseball player who was active in the professional world about his second career We asked Yoshiaki Katagai (70), a former Chunichi Dragons who appeared last year in “The Interview-The Second Stage of Former Professional Baseball Players”, about the current situation. .. While serving as the director of the human resources department at “Yabaton Co., Ltd.” (Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture), he also serves as the director of the hardball baseball club team “Yabaton Boosters” launched by the company. How are you facing each other … We will deliver it as “The Interview Special Edition”.[Interview / Composition = Hiroki Ando]
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The violence of the new coronavirus continues over the years. The chain store of “Miso-katsu”, which represents Nagoya food, has also been greatly affected. Naturally, the activities of the baseball club were also affected, but the team activities are still ongoing.
Mr. Katagai With the understanding of the company, baseball activities continue without major restrictions. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get results last year. I think this also means that the team didn’t have the real power. It’s the same for all teams, even though Corona has made it difficult to practice. I also understood that it was too smooth so far. This year, I would like to regain the top position as a club team in the Tokai area and challenge for the first time against the city.
He has been involved since the start of the team, and revealed that he is strengthening the team as a manager even in the corona wreck. On the other hand, he explained as a “result” that the executive candidate, which was another goal when the team was founded, is starting to grow up from a baseball team member because he also serves as the general manager of the human resources department.
Mr. Katagai A store manager in his twenties was born for the first time from the first baseball club in the personnel affairs last fall. Until now, it has been customary for store managers to be over 30 years old. One of the purposes of establishing the baseball club was to train as an executive candidate, so I see this as an achievement.
It is said that the percentage of baseball team members who continue to work is increasing as they remain in the company even after retiring from active duty. In an interview last year, he said: “I have a relationship and I am still involved in baseball. I used to play baseball until college, but I have nowhere to go. I sympathize with the founding philosophy of wanting to create a place, and I have been indebted to the boosters since the launch. I would like to continue trying to create new models as a club team. ” One of the new model creations is the birth of executives.
Basically, baseball team members continue to hire new graduates from the university, and seven new graduates will be hired in the new year as well. It is a saucer for students who want to continue playing baseball, and it will continue to be a training ground for higher categories. On the other hand, for Mr. Katakai, whose second life goal was to find and train executive candidates who will be responsible for the future of his main business, the birth of a baseball team member who can be selected as a key position is bright as Corona continues to suffer. It can be said that it is a material.
Mr. Katagai Of course, we must take thorough measures against infection. In the unlikely event that an infected person appears, we have decided to decline participation in competitions, etc., and above all, it will have a great impact on companies that operate the restaurant business. Every time we tell the players, we thoroughly inform them of preventive measures.
After retiring from active duty, he worked for many years as a team staff such as scorer and motion analysis to develop new fields. Based on those experiences, in last year’s interview, he talked about the basis for living as an organization person as follows. “Even if you are the top in the world of baseball, once you enter the general public, the public evaluation will be blank from that moment. No matter what world you go to, you have no choice but to produce results as a professional in a new field. It is important to complete the task that you have been assigned to even small things first. I think it is important to gain confidence and increase withdrawals. You can organize your own path and start small things little by little. By producing results, we will be able to respond more. ” It seems that strengthening the baseball club and training employees will not stop even if the corona is bad.
◆ Yoshiaki Katagai Born September 27, 1951, from Gunma prefecture. After working for Maebashi Technical High School and Nippon Oil, he was nominated for Chunichi in the second place in the draft in 1972 and joined the team. As a catcher, one army has participated in 13 games in total. After retiring in 1980, he has been in charge of scorer, coach, and motion analysis. After leaving Chunichi in 2014, he changed to the miso katsu specialty store “Yabaton”, which is based in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture. Currently, he is the general manager of the Human Resources Department of the headquarters and the director of the club team “Yabaton Boosters”.
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