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.
Everyone has heard of Bill Gates, Jack Welch, and Richard Branson. They’re among the most successful business leaders of our times. The internet is flooded with their accomplishments, motivational quotes, and ambitions.
But what about Julius Caesar? Can a Roman politician, general, and writer who was assassinated more than 2,000 years ago offer us any valuable life lessons for the modern world?
I believe he can.
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The Life & Times of Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar was only sixteen when his father died. Because of his family’s connection to the losing side in a civil war, he was immediately stripped of his inheritance. He was short of money for most of his career as a result.
But that didn’t stop him doing two very important things.
1. Investing in his education
In his mid-twenties, Julius Caesar travelled to Greece to study public speaking under Apollonius Molon, a famous orator who had also trained Cicero. Being a good public speaker was an indispensable skill for a Roman politician—and Julius Caesar knew that. So despite his limited funds, he made his education happen, and it paid off.
2. Investing in his network
Julius Caesar spent vast amounts of money hosting expensive dinners designed to win the support of his fellow politicians. He also put on lavish festivals to win the support of ordinary people. For this, he needed to go heavily into debt.
Most of the things Julius Caesar is known for today—invading Gaul and Britain, taking control of the republic, etc.—happened after he was appointed consul in his early forties. That means it was only in the last third of his life that his investments in his education and his network really paid off.
While there are some things about Julius Caesar that you wouldn’t want to imitate—his habit of sleeping with other men’s wives, for one—you’ve got to admire the way he invested in himself, especially considering how little money he had to do so. The limits and obstacles we perceive between us and our ambitions can almost always be overcome with the right attitude and drive.
And, yes, a little luck.
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Caesar Your Opportunities!
I was lucky. Even though my family was not well off, my parents were committed to funding my education. I also won scholarships, such as for a high-school exchange program in Australia (where I learned to speak English) and a company sponsorship to Harvard Business School.
But I believe in lifelong education, and that dictated how I directed the luck that came my way. It’s also why I regularly attend conferences to educate myself about the global stage and my role in shaping society. I’ve attended meetings at the Aspen Institute in Colorado, the World Economic Forum at Davos, the Singularity University in Silicon Valley, and the Vedanta Academy in India, to name a few.
Similarly, I continue to invest in building my network. I belong to the Entrepreneur’s Organization and the Young President’s Organization. The annual G1 conferences, which GLOBIS launched in 2009, have grown to become a powerful network. In other words, I don’t just network for myself. I try to find ways to build networks that benefit greater, even new, communities.
Ultimately, your biggest asset is never financial. Your biggest asset consists of your skills (which are derived from your education) and the size of your network (which is based on trust).
That’s why I urge everyone to learn from Julius Caesar. Invest in your education and your network when you are young, and in later life you will be well positioned to perform heroic feats of business that will echo through the ages!