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.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Take advantage of this time at home!
Stay productive!
Remember, Shakespeare wrote King Lear during the plague!
Setting aside the fact that the Shakespeare comparison is wildly unfair (least because he was, you know, Shakespeare), the truth is, times of crisis are not ideal for putting extra pressure on yourself. In other words, it’s not so easy to survive COVID-19—and not just true physically. While this might seem to be (and in some ways is) a prime opportunity to self-reflect, help others, and finish off some of those waylaid projects, there is a middle ground between the Tasmanian devil tornado of productivity and couch potato-hood.
If you’re feeling overworked, overwhelmed, or overly worried, look yourself in the selfie cam and recite these three mantras to keep a sound mind and body during COVID-19.
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Mantra #1: “It’s OK if I’m not productive right now.”
Panic-buying, that frenzied hoarding that has led to aggressive shopping behavior and shortages of necessities across the globe, is something we have all sadly grown familiar with since COVID-19 descended. But panic-working, as INSEAD associate professor of organizational behavior Gianpiero Petriglieri calls it, is also something we need to keep an eye on.
The urge to run ourselves ragged during times of stress is a manic defense mechanism that kicks in as we grope for a sense of control. But pushing to get as much done in a day as we possibly can won’t bring the comfort we’re seeking. In fact, it’s far more likely to have a detrimental impact on our true ability to cope—not to mention on our relationships, which are more important now than ever.
Think about it: have you ever heard someone complain about (or personally had to deal with) a manager pushing too hard in the single-minded pursuit of a target? That type of panic-working damages team trust and productivity. The same thing can happen when we push ourselves too hard at home.
Give yourself permission to sit down and do nothing for a while, to wait to answer an email until Monday, or to leave a few dirty dishes in the sink. If you find yourself itching to go from activity to activity, here’s your first mantra to survive COVID-19:
“It’s OK if I’m not productive right now.”
Mantra #2: “I can be present in this new reality.”
Even the toughest COVID-19 lockdown allows people to go out for supplies. More lax restrictions are merely enforcing curfews or closing offices. But under these conditions, assuming you follow the now common-sense social distancing advice, the journey to the supermarket doesn’t have to be a rushed in-an-out activity. Take the opportunity for a mindset reset.
If you walk to the grocery store, look up from the sidewalk. Take in the world around you. We may never see our neighborhoods or city streets this empty again. Take a moment to consider what’s changed beyond the absence of people. Venice, famously, has seen a transformation of its canals and streets. China, South Korea, Italy, and other countries are enjoying drastic improvements in air quality thanks to reduced traffic.
What’s changed in your neighborhood? Are there more birds? More flowers or changing leaves? Is it quieter? Is the air cleaner? Anything you might like to continue seeing after COVID-19 is over?
Your next mantra:
“I can be present in this new reality.”

Mantra #3: “I may not bounce back, but I can bounce forward.”
In recent years, psychologists have expanded the study of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and begun researching another outcome of trauma: post-traumatic growth (PTG). Just like PTSD, PTG can come out of any tragedy, from illness to loss, accidents to divorce.
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and best-selling author of Lean In, experienced PTG firsthand with the tragic loss of her husband. “Post-traumatic growth actually affects more people by a lot than post-traumatic stress,” she says. “What it means is that there’s an aspect of your life that’s better because of the trauma you faced.”
To be clear, PTG isn’t about valuing trauma or being glad that bad things happened. It’s about finding new quality of life after the storm passes. People who experience PTG find ways to appreciate their survival and achieve new awareness in the aftermath—awareness of themselves, their loved ones, their purpose, their limitations, and their strengths.
Dr. Steve Taylor writes in Scientific American that his ten years of research have examined PTG’s eventual evolution into post-traumatic transformation. “After a period of intense suffering,” he says, “a person may undergo a sudden shift of identity … All of a sudden, they [experience] heightened sensory awareness, an increased sense of compassion and connection, and new values or goals.”
Many of us would agree that our society could use some of those things.
We cannot avoid the trauma of coronavirus—we’re already suffering it. But if each of us reaches the transformation stage, we could come out the other side with a deeper sense of connection to ourselves and to each other.
For your final mantra to survive COVID-19, paraphrase Sandberg:
“I may not bounce back, but I can bounce forward.”