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
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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.
In the nineteenth century, business leaders and investors focused on returns. In the twentieth century, they shifted to a risk-return measurement model. Now, on the brink of the Impact Revolution, it’s time for us to adopt a new paradigm of risk-return-impact.
The value of impact investment can be found by asking ourselves a simple question: “What kind of world do we want to live in?”
“That’s the question confronting all of us today,” says Sir Ronald Cohen in his book Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change. “Envision a world where inequality is shrinking, where natural resources are regenerated, and people can unlock their full potential and benefit from shared prosperity.”
This, he says, is the world we can achieve with the Impact Revolution.
The way to the Impact Revolution will be paved by impact capitalism, an ecosystem which is driven not by profit alone, but by impact and profit together. When a company pursues impact investment, it does so with the intention to achieve positive social/environmental outcomes, in addition to financial return.
Sir Ronald Cohen: The Father of Impact Capitalism
A pioneering philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator, Sir Ronald Cohen is a driving force in the global Impact Revolution.
He also has an extraordinary life story.
When he was 11, he and his family were forced to flee Egypt during the Suez Crisis and settle in the UK as refugees. With virtually no English language skills, Cohen was dropped into a British school, and his family struggled to survive in poverty. Despite all this, he managed to rise to the top of his class, earn a scholarship, and graduate from Oxford University. He then went on to get an MBA at Harvard Business School.
Cohen was drawn to venture capitalism because he wanted to help people. When he was 26, he cofounded Apax Partners. This would not only become the first venture capital firm in Europe, but also the leading firm in the region.
Over the course of his career, Cohen worked closely with the British prime minister, the G8 Social Investment Impact Taskforce, and other individuals who would go on to become key players in the impact investment industry.
All of these efforts led him to a simple conclusion: capitalism is no longer answering the needs of our planet. We need a new way forward.
That way, he determined, is impact capitalism.
Beyond Theory, Impact Promises Solutions
Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change describes the journey of the Impact Revolution over the past twenty years and the roles of the principal players. The book is organized into seven chapters, each with a clear message. Here are a few:
We must shift impact to the center of our consciousness.
It is possible to do well and do good at the same time.
There is a will, there is a way, and now is the time to act.
Through diverse case studies and concrete solutions, the book is an Impact Revolution roadmap for all.
One of the most notable solutions is impact-weighted accounts. These are financial accounts (represented by profit and loss statements and balance sheets) that reflect both the financial performance of a company and the impact that company creates on people and the planet through products, employment, and operations.
With COVID-19, the need for such innovations in accounting is more critical than ever.
After the Wall Street crash of 1929, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) were created. Similarly, with the COVID-19 crisis, Cohen proposes that we need generally accepted impact principles (GAIP) going forward. COVID-19 has shaken our values and called us to question capitalism. We have an opportunity to rethink capitalism and transform our economy and society.
Adam Smith introduced the concept of the “invisible hand” of markets in his book, The Wealth of Nations. Essentially, he proposes that competition generated between individual traders in a free market scenario with no government control will lead the market in a positive direction.
Impact-weighted accounts would enable us to measure and manage impact so that we can bring the “invisible heart” to the market, as well.
What will be your role?
In Japan, a rapidly aging society and increasing fiscal deficits make it difficult for the government alone to manage social issues. Largely for this reason, and at Sir Ronald Cohen’s request, GLOBIS launched the KIBOW Impact Investment Fund in 2015. KIBOW invests in entrepreneurs who can solve social issues and generate a new flow of funds for social good.
But whether you are an entrepreneur, an investor, a politician or just a curious consumer or employee, everyone has a role to play.
Entrepreneurs can develop innovative businesses that deliver and measure positive impact.
Business leaders can set measurable impact objectives alongside financial ones and report their achievements.
Governments can focus on preventing costly social problems through pay-for-success strategies.
And, of course, customers can purchase products and services that help improve our lives and the planet. As Sir Ronald Cohen so eloquently puts it, “The story of the Impact Revolution will be written by you.”