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.
VUCA: an acronym for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. It was coined by the US Army War College to describe the unpredictable state of the post-Cold War world. But recent times have become very VUCA indeed!
We have volatility in the markets due to Brexit (the plunging pound) and Trump (the soaring dollar). We have uncertainty in the political sphere with a US president who believes in impulsive tweeting, the rejection of expert advice, and cozying up to some countries (Russia) while provoking others (Mexico, China, and North Korea). We have complexity in rapid technological change and shifting geopolitical power balances, especially in Asia. And we have ambiguity—a blurring of the lines between the real and virtual worlds, between AI and human intelligence.
Most of all, we simply do not know what the future holds in our volatile, uncertain and complex times.
As the new year begins, we all need to ask ourselves, “What is the best way to survive and thrive in this VUCA world?” My answer is that we need to cultivate a positive attitude to help navigate a way through all this uncertainty. So my counterpunch to VUCA is another four-letter word: VEDA.
Veda means wisdom in Sanskrit (as in “Ayurveda,” which means “life-wisdom”). But what does the VEDA acronym stand for?
- Vision
- Education
- Dialogue
- Action
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V is for vision.
Even if the overall view is unclear, you need a steady sense of direction in order to have a path to follow. A clear, overarching vision will help guide you.
But that’s not only true for you—it’s also true for your team, your organization, your community, and your country. A strong vision helps us focus our efforts in even the most VUCA times.
E is for education.
In a complex world, it’s important to get your hands on as much information as you can―from primary sources. You should gather data, acquire knowledge, analyze, and discuss things so you can make sound decisions even in a turbulent environment. Education has never been more important.
D is for dialogue.
The year 2016 was all about divides opening up in society. Brexit and the election of Donald Trump highlighted the gap between different groups—rural and urban, old and young, university educated and high school educated, immigrants and non-immigrants. Elites who were out of touch with other sections of society were caught completely by surprise.
To bridge those divides, it’s important to reach out to people with different points of view and engage them in ongoing dialogue.
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A is for action.
However volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous the world may be, sitting in the corner doing nothing is not a constructive option. It is important to do something. Why? Because any action—even a wrong action—necessarily produces a reaction. That reaction constitutes direct feedback to help you live in an ambiguous world. Without action, ambiguity remains in place. With action, you start to get clarity.
Action generates hints and signals to guide you through the VUCA world.
Think VEDA!
While it may seem like we’re living in more volatile times than ever, the truth is that things are never as steady and peaceful as nostalgic hindsight sometimes suggests. So don’t focus on the past, pining away for that perfect age of peace and prosperity that probably never was. Instead, focus your mind on the future.
I think most successful leaders will agree that achieving the right mindset is half the battle. We will never be 100% free of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. VUCA is part of our reality, but it doesn’t have to define our reality. As long as you focus on the negative, the negative will pull you down.
So instead, embrace your vision. Educate yourself. Start a dialogue about how to make things better. And most importantly, take action. Embrace VEDA!