Analytical Skills 
Improve business decisions by learning how to gather, interpret and present data.

Develop specialized skills and strategies to help you assess patterns, identify relevant questions, gain data-driven insights and effectively share analytical information with others.

Topics

Practicing Preventive Management

Preventive management is a way to minimize problems in process or operations; a method for continuous improvement.

Presentation Horror Stories

Cue the scary music. Just in time for Halloween, <i>Performance & Profits</i> offers a sample of tales about presentation nightmares that are guaranteed to give you goose bumps. Don't read this alone....

Power Up for Success: How to Increase Your Professional Voltage

How to increase your power and influence at work.

Presentation Tips: 8 Ways to Captivate and Engage Your Audience

Memorable speakers have one thing in common: they know how to create a connection with their listeners. Here are 8 proven presentation tips to engage and involve your audience:

Poised for Success

Is your hiring program based on the bipolar model that says potential employees are either "active" (looking for a job) or "passive" (employed and not looking)? If so, you could be missing out on the 70% of employees who don't fit either category. The...

Pricing Strategy: Pricking the Veil of Value Exchange

Learn why today pricing must be focused on value exchange

Preventing the Nightmare of Workplace Violence

Half of U.S. firms with 1,000 employees or more reported an incident of workplace violence within a 12-month period, according to a 2005 survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But about 70% of the establishments surveyed did not have a program or...

Priority Project Management

Learn how to identify decision criteria by prioritizing scope, schedule and costs during project planning....

Productivity and Office Design: Beyond Feng Shui

Imagine the typical office: drab decor, boring color scheme, sterile lighting. It's not a pretty picture. Nor is it a productive one, at least according to a recent survey conducted by Gensler, an architecture and design firm. The study found that the...