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.
From 1986–1991 Japan went through an economic bubble. Then, in early 1992, the economy crashed.
Many companies lost fortunes by speculating on risky stocks and properties that were unrelated to their main line of business. This lead to Japan’s “lost decade” of economic stagnation. Many hard lessons were learned during this period.
A fundamental one is this: Live within your means.
While many companies floundered, many enduring companies with centuries of history behind them survived because they had not made any of those dangerous speculative investments. The reason? They stuck to what they know.
This type of management is a common trait among Japan’s long-lasting firms.
Deciding to practice frugality because you are “X” type of company or taking on new challenges because you are “Y” type of company can be very powerful.
Operating simply and frugally, however, does not mean that long-lasting companies avoid taking risks.
Until sake manufacturer Ozeki (founded 1711) introduced its revolutionary “One Cup” single serving in 1964, sake had only been sold in 1.8-liter bottles. By introducing a new product, they revolutionized the industry.
The first company to individually package katsuobushi (smoked skipjack tuna), which had previously only been sold in large bags, was Ninben (founded 1699).
These firms place utmost importance on gradual and continuous growth. That is, they aim to grow 2% this year and 2% the next, rather than growing 20% next year, but not knowing what will happen after that.
Gradual, continuous growth is key.
I’ve conducted research that found many enduring companies remain firm in their commitment to practicing simplicity and frugality. Higashimaru Shoyu, founded in Tatsuno City, Hyogo Prefecture in 1942 (with roots back to the 16th century), uses a company currency called the “Higashimaru Shoyu Yen.” When somebody is called into a meeting, there is a cost associated with that. Essentially, they are instilling a very high awareness of cost in employees.
When an investment is considered at trading firm Okaya & Co., Ltd., no matter how small the investment is, the issue is discussed at a board meeting attended by the president.
Attention to detail and practicing frugality are simple ideas, yet they can have an enormous impact on a company’s performance.
Whatever industry you are in, that’s something all businesses should all keep in mind.