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.
When a new academic year starts at school or college, students get presented with a curriculum of mandatory and elective courses. After you graduate, that changes completely: if you want to learn as an adult, you’re the one who has to devise your own curriculum.
I got my MBA at the age of 29 and launched GLOBIS, my business school/VC firm at 30. Since it was my own company, I had no boss or senior colleagues to learn from. How, then, could I develop the skills I needed to become a better leader?
Well, the first thing I did was to ask several people I admired to sit on my company’s board as external directors to mentor to me. That was a start, but it was not enough. Determined to meet more leaders from whom I could learn, I started attending all sorts of seminars, conferences, and later the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Where do you want to go today?
At the age of 33, I decided to draw up a long-term vision for myself and my company. I imagined what sort of person I would be at the age of sixty.
The vision for my business school was to become the No. 1 business school in Asia. That meant I had to become Asia’s No.1 dean or president. I therefore set about envisioning what kind of skills I should have as a 60-year-old top dean or president.
I created a self-development framework comprising three elements:
1. Mental abilities
2. Skills & knowledge
3. Physical health & fitness.
In other words: Mind, brain and body.
Based on these three elements, I drew up a “dream image” of the person I wanted to be in 30 years’ time. For example, in the mental abilities category, I needed to be furnished with a calm, resilient mind capable of confronting any kind of adversity. In the skills & knowledge category, I wanted to understand every aspect of management with a particular focus on entrepreneurship and technology. In physical health & fitness, I wanted to stay fit, healthy and active.
To turn this vision into a reality, I started to plan step by step and year by year. At the start of every calendar year, I drew up a personal curriculum for myself. This has a detailed to-do list of achievable numerical goals in each of my three categories.
For example, in 2017 my physical goals were:
・To do 100 sit-ups, 10 squats, and stretch every morning
・To climb the stairs to my 9th-floor office every day
・To swim 3 times a week
・To go mountain climbing 8 times in summer
・To go snowboarding 15 times in winter
Meanwhile, as part of my long-term goal of staying on top of the latest technology trends (in skills & knowledge), I visited the factories of various cutting-edge companies like legendary factory robot maker Fanuc and car-component maker Denso (who also invented the QR code!), as well as going to KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in Daejeon, visiting the headquarters of tech companies Tencent and Huawei in Shenzhen, visiting the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, and attending a course at the Singularity University in Silicon Valley.
Since I store my annual curriculum in the cloud, I can access it easily from my iPhone or iPad to keep tabs on how well I am achieving my various goals during the year. At the end of December, I conduct a final tally of what I have done and what I have failed to do. Handily enough, whatever I have not done, I can simply carry over and try to do again in the upcoming year, and add new goals on top. I have been doing this for over 20 years now.
Repetition. Repetition. Repetition.
As the president of a business school and the father of five boys, I have studied brain science, cognitive science, educational methodologies etc. to understand how people can improve their skills. My simple conclusion? Repetition is the secret to mastering anything. Whether you want to be good at swimming or public speaking, you have simply got to practice over and over (and over!) again.
With enough repetition, we can all get good at anything.
The only limiting factor is time. There are only 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year. You need to decide what skills you want to get, and allocate as much time as you can to practicing them.
The best way to do that is (a) to find yourself good teachers, mentors and role models and (b) to draw up a year-long curriculum with clear numerical targets and, then, practice, practice, practice, repeatedly.
Happy New Year developing your new skills in 2018!