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.

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Jeff Rosenblum on Stopping Friction for Your Customers

Friction is an unfortunate part of life but it can be overcome. Jeff Rosenblum , co-director of the new documentary The Naked Brand, joins us to talk about the various kinds of friction we encounter and how brands can remove what is stopping their customers from making purchasing decisions.

Jeffrey Hollender on Key Business Lessons in Going Green

Back when “green” was just a color and not a movement, Seventh Generation was already at work creating earth-friendly, non-toxic, energy-conserving products.  Jeffrey Hollender , co-founder and chairman of Seventh Generation, believes that the companies that will succeed are the one

Jennifer Kahnweiler on Quiet Influence

Introverts can have trouble getting recognition for their accomplishments. They do great work but they do their best work quietly and alone. Skills like writing and research are crucial but not always attention grabbing. Jennifer Kahnweiler , author of the new book Quiet Influence: The Introvert's G

Jennifer Kahnweiler on the Genius of Opposites

Introverts and extroverts have different and sometimes contradictory strengths. When they pair up and manage to find a way to work together, introverts and extroverts can create power teams. Jennifer Kahnweiler, Ph.D. , author of the new book The Genius of Opposites , joins us again to give us examp

Jennifer Kahnweiler on the Introvert Advantage

According to Jennifer Kahnweiler , author of Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength, introversion is a trait shared by society’s most distinguished leaders: Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and President Obama. In this episode of Edgewise, she provides tips on how to harness attributes common

Jeremy Goldman on Going Social

Social media is the go-to tool for businesses to connect to their customers. However, many businesses use the wrong type of social media or lose sight of what is important to their business model. Join Jeremy Goldman , author of the book Going Social , as he talks about the traps and pitfalls a busi

Jill Griffin on Earning Loyalty in a Search and Switch World

The ability to compare price and product created by Internet search engines coupled with our insatiable desire for instant information have created a volatile new breed of buyer, the search and switch customer. In these bruising economic times, businesses unprepared to address this buyer are losing

Jim Leighton on Getting FIT

Are you a TGIF kind of worker or for you is it TGIM, Thank God It’s Monday? It might have to do with how much passion you have for your work. If your values and principles don’t align with your company’s, you might not be as successful in the workplace as you might think, your lack of enthusiasm eve

Jim Kirkpatrick on Revamping Training to Increase its Business Impact

Training can’t be a rote process; for the most effective results, job training needs to be customized to each specific audience. Sometimes it even needs to start backwards, focusing on the result first and then moving back to the process. That way training becomes streamlined, more effective, and co

Jim McCann on Conversational Leadership

James F. "Jim" McCann is an American entrepreneur who founded 1-800-Flowers, which was one of the first companies to pioneer and popularize the use of both toll-free telephone numbers and websites to sell goods and services directly to consumers.