Leading High Performing Remote Teams
How can leaders ensure that performance remains high in remote or hybrid-work environments?
Content Marketing
In this course, you’ll learn how compelling blogs, videos, podcasts, and other media can reach customers and drive sales. You’ll also learn steps for creating an effective content marketing plan, and some important ways to measure its impact and success.
Content marketing is a essential digital marketing strategy for companies looking to provide relevant and useful information to support your community and attract new customers.
Get started on your content marketing journey today.
Sustainable Innovation in Times of Disruption: Choices for a Better Society
There are opportunities for progress all around us. The key is to innovate on these opportunities sustainably.
To help identify most effective path forward, you'll need to gain a global perspective to these challenges in an open discussion. How can Japan and the world take action to create a more sustainable, innovative world? Where do you fit in?
It's time to find out.
Social Media & Digital Communications: Impact on Global Public Opinion
Social and digital media have dominated the communications industry for decades. But it's no secret that social media has the power to sway public opinion, and the way in which many companies use these platforms could be seen as manipulative.
What do companies need to be aware of when utilizing social and digital media? How can these mediums be used to better communicate strategically with the world?
Discover what top media and communications experts have to say.
CAGE Distance Framework
Want to expand overseas? The CAGE distance framework can help ensure you're constructing a solid global strategy in four areas: cultural, administrative, economic, and geographic. Learn how to leverage useful differences between countries, identify potential obstacles, and achieve global business success.
Servant Leadership
There's more to leadership than driving a team to profit. In fact, there's a word for looking beyond self-interest to prioritize individual growth: servant leadership. Try this course for a quick breakdown of what that is, how it works, and how it can lead to organizational success.
Strategy: Creating Value Inside Your Company
Have you ever wondered why certain companies are more successful than others? The answer is strategy: internal processes that control costs, allocate resources, and create value. This course from GLOBIS Unlimited can give you the tools you need for that strategic edge.
Strategy: Understanding the External Environment
To plan strategy on any level, you need to understand your company's external environment. In fact, your level of understanding can impact hiring, budgeting, marketing, or nearly any other part of the business world. Want to learn how to do all that? This course from GLOBIS Unlimited is the perfect first step!
Using Japanese Values to Thrive in Global Business
Japanese companies have unique cultural, communication, and operational challenges. But they also have values that have led to remarkable longevity. Check out this seminar to hear how these values help earn trust from overseas head offices and develop employees.
Marketing: Reaching Your Target
Every company works hard to get its products into the hands of customers. Are you doing everything you can to compete? In this course, you’ll find a winning formula to turn a product idea into real sales. Follow along through the fundamentals of the marketing mix and see how companies successfully bring products to market.
Basic Accounting: Financial Analysis
Want to compare your performance vs. a competitor? Or evaluate a potential vendor? Then you'll need to conduct a financial analysis. This course will teach you how to use three financial statements and evaluate financial performance in terms of profitability, efficiency, soundness, growth, and overall strength.
Career Anchors
What drives you to be good at your job?
Career anchors are based on your values, desires, motivations, and abilities. They are the immovable parts of your professional self-image that guide you throughout your career journey.
Try this short GLOBIS Unlimited course to identify which of the eight career anchors is yours!
Leadership with Passion through Kokorozashi
The key ingredient to success? Passion.
Finding your kokorozashi will unify your passions and skills to create positive change in society. This GLOBIS Unlimited course will help you develop the values and lifelong goals you need to become a strong, passion-driven leader.
These last few weeks, we’ve all witnessed how Mother Nature can bring the global population (and economy) to its knees frighteningly fast. Schools closed, events were canceled, theme parks shut down…then flights were slashed, borders were shut, and curfews came into play.
Parents found themselves at home with their kids 24/7.
University students no longer had access to classrooms or on-campus resources.
Companies began insisting employees work from home.
But humans are adaptable and, what’s more, love learning. Thanks to the digital age, innovations in all forms of education are springing up during the COVID-19 shutdowns.
Quarantine Days Are Not Snow Days
At the beginning of March, 99% of Japanese public elementary schools were shut down. After China, where the outbreak originated, Japan was the first country to take such measures, and while it may have seemed extraordinary in the moment, other countries across the globe fell in line like dominoes.
In fact, here’s how things look as of March 18, 2020:
Stuck at home for the foreseeable future with their kids, parents quickly leveraged social networks to share resources online, and companies picked up on the new trend fast.
Scholastic launched its Learn at Home website with “cross-curricular journeys” for kids. The New York City Department of Education, compensating for rapidly accelerating stages of lockdown, has a 10-day curriculum set up online for grades Pre-K through 12.
Of course, there’s more to life than book learning. Virtual field trips are allowing kids (and cabin fever-afflicted adults) to explore zoos, aquariums, museums, famous historical sites…even Mars (via NASA) and the Matterhorn (thanks to Google Earth VR). Some are hand-held walkthroughs, others live webcam stories. Many have been live for years, but are only now getting integrated into homeschooling curricula thanks to parents’ eagerness to keep kids both entertained and challenged.
Adults Are (Bored) People, Too
The online learning trend is by no means limited to children.
Universities, including GLOBIS, were quick to move classes online—a change that had been in the early stages of integration for many institutions until the virus threat. With no choice and little time to plan, instructors found (and continue to find) themselves diving headlong into digital alternatives, and students are proving how adaptable they can be.
“What has been most amazing about this,” says Darren Menabney, Business Presentation lecturer at GLOBIS, “is how quickly our students have adapted, and how much they loved it!”
Even beyond universities, there’s plenty of demand for intellectual stimulation.
Coursera, the popular online learning platform, has used its “Coursera for Campus” extension to make learning free for campuses impacted by the virus. GLOBIS Unlimited, which offers online business microlearning, made its service available for free to corporate users, and has now opened the offer to individual learners through April 7. Other internet solution providers, including software developers, have started sharing previously locked software or slashed prices to speed up access to online environments for universities and individuals alike.
We All Need Arts & Leisure
A rounded education is key.
Virtual tours of museums, from Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum to the Vatican, are just the start to bringing art into the home. The Metropolitan Opera—perhaps one of the last institutions you’d think would go digital for the sheer impact of the live experience—is streaming a free performance from its catalogue daily until its doors reopen. The Paris Opera has just announced similar plans to bring some of its top performances online for free. That’s hours of cultural entertainment in a single show!
Broadway stars and pop singers are streaming from their living rooms. Some are even on a schedule so people know when to tune in, such as Katharine McPhee and David Foster, who have promised to go live on Instagram at 5:30pm PT every day.
On the less traditional side of entertainment, a new Google Chrome extension called Netflix Party pairs group chat with synchronized streaming so people can watch Netflix offerings together from multiple locations. Teachers, parents, and other study bugs can take advantage of options like this to build communities around documentaries and other educational programs.
In short, there’s no reason these days of social distancing must be faced in solitude. We’re already tunneling to each other through innovative digital networks. And who knows? We all might just learn a thing or two before coronavirus passes.