Have you ever felt 'afraid to share information yourself'?
When writing a blog for the company, I sometimes hear things like this from the people around me.
"I used to write a blog, but after getting some terrible comments back then, I grew to hate writing blogs..."
"I'd like to try writing a blog too, but is it okay for someone like me to write one?"
"When I post announcements on the company bulletin board, I'm so worried about what the other employees will think that I always end up being very brief..."
(Please forgive the bias in the first-person pronouns, as our company has a high percentage of male employees...)
There seem to be two main patterns for why people hesitate to share information: the pattern of lacking self-confidence, thinking "Is it really okay for someone like me to share this?", and the pattern of being swayed by the invisible opinions of others, thinking "I'm afraid because I'm worried about what people around me will think.".
As for a solution... though it might not be much of one, I think that in order to get rid of the fear of sharing information yourself, it is important to keep just one thought in your mind.
"Even if others think what they want, it's fine as long as I myself am convinced by what I have shared."
Whether I am writing a blog for myself or the company, writing for the company note, or posting a notice about a website renewal on the company bulletin board, I have never once felt 'afraid to share information'.
That may be partly due to the good fortune of never having received soul-crushing anti-comments, but above all, I think the biggest factor is that I am firmly convinced within myself that "there are no mistakes in what I have written."
Of course, I am human too, so when I publish a blog and the number of views doesn't grow, or there are few 'likes' on a note, or there are few emoji reactions of 'confirmed' on the company bulletin board, I sometimes feel down, thinking, 'I went to the trouble of writing it, but maybe it's not being read at all...'
But, as is obvious, the number of views and reactions are not things I can control with my own power. I think it is also worth considering that it is exhausting to overreact to events where others have the decision-making power.
Rather than that, whether you, as the number one reader, can be genuinely convinced that 'this is truly how it is' regarding the content you have shared. If you use your own level of conviction as a standard rather than the evaluation of others, you will surely no longer be afraid to share information yourself.