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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Are Your Employees Sabotaging Your Company’s Accountability?

Lack of accountability like those identified in this article can undermine company reputation.

Arrows in the Decision-Making Quiver

What's the best way to make a decision? Should you use your power of intuition, as Malcolm Gladwell advocates in his best-seller Blink? Or should you rely on careful reasoning and painstaking evidence, as Stanford professors Jeffrey Pfeffer and...

articles/a-nine-step-cure-for-tough-boss-syndrome

Most tough boss problems center on communication. If you take the time to ask yourself nine basic questions about how you and your boss communicate, your boss will learn to value and trust you more. And most important-you'll learn how to ask for and get what you need to become happier and more produ

As Above, So Below

Employees look to their leaders to personify positive values.

Ash Seddeek on Being a Leader of Leaders

AMA Faculty member and author Ash Seddeek joins us to review some of FranklinCovey's 7 Habits and share some of the things he's learned from his years as an executive coach. and trainer

Asi Burak on Learning from Video Games

Good news! All that time you've spent playing video games is actually good for you. Asi Burak , coauthor, along with Laura Parker, of Power Play: How Video Games Can Change the World , is here to talk about how playing video games can be beneficial to learning as well as what other companies should

Assembling The Right People For Strategic Business Planning

As an organization works to establish its position and direction in the marketplace, the strategic business planning team takes on great importance.

Asian-Pacific Companies are Looking for Home-Grown Leaders

Major companies based in the Asia-Pacific region are intensifying their search for local executives, rather than relying on expatriate leaders brought in from other areas of the world, according to a new report....

Are You the "Boss from Hell?"

What do your people really think of you? If you're guilty of more than a few of the sins outlined in Bruce Katcher's new book Reasons Employers Hate Their Managers , the answer may not be pretty. The good news is that there is a lot that...

Attention Innovators and Problem Solvers: We Want to Hear from You

A look back at the past five winners of AMA's annual Innovation Award for Administrative Professionals.