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.
Imagine you’re shopping for a new car. You’re browsing the lot and find two models: one domestically made at $28,000 and a nearly identical foreign sedan for $27,000. Naturally, you’d lean toward the cheaper option—until your country suddenly slaps a 25% import tax on foreign cars. That $27,000 ride now costs over $33,000, and suddenly the domestic $28,000 car looks like a steal. Welcome to the world of tariffs, basically.
What Are Tariffs?
Tariffs are taxes imposed on imported goods. They serve a couple of key purposes:
- Protecting Domestic Industries: By making foreign products more expensive, governments encourage consumers to buy domestic goods.
- Raising Revenue and Negotiating Power: Historically, tariffs have been a primary way for governments to generate income. They can also act as a bargaining chip in international trade disputes.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Like most economic policies, tariffs have pros and cons.
The Upside: Local Job Protection
Tariffs can help preserve—and even create—jobs in domestic industries like manufacturing and agriculture. When imported goods become pricier, local products gain a competitive edge, which can lead to more employment opportunities and a boost for local businesses.
The Downside: Higher Prices for Everyone
However, the benefits aren’t all sunshine and rainbows. When tariffs drive up the prices of imported goods, consumers and businesses alike end up paying more. Picture this: if avocados from Mexico suddenly face a 25% tariff, the cost goes up. That extra expense doesn’t just vanish; it trickles down to everyone, possibly leading you to buy fewer avocados at the grocery store.
Impact on Businesses
It’s not just about what you buy at the store. Industries that rely on imported materials might see their costs skyrocket, forcing them to make tough decisions—like cutting jobs or even reducing wages. Meanwhile, sectors that depend on exports could also take a hit if retaliatory tariffs slow global trade.
Navigating a Tariff-Heavy World
So, how do you cope when tariffs start affecting your wallet? While you might not be able to change government policy, you can certainly adapt:
- As a Consumer: Stay informed about current tariff policies. Opting for local products might save you money and support your community.
- As a Business Owner: Keep a close eye on tariff changes. Understanding these shifts can help you manage costs more effectively and remain competitive in an ever-changing market.
Wrapping It Up
Tariffs might sound like a dry, technical subject, but they have real-world implications—from the price of your car to the cost of your groceries. By understanding how tariffs work and the trade-offs they entail, you can make smarter decisions whether you’re buying a car, stocking up on avocados, or running a business. And that’s tariffs, basically.