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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Changing the Way We Feel About Ourselves

Build a positive attitude about yourself.

Chaos Needs a Plan

One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been positives and negatives, but managers still need to plan for continued uncertainty.

Characteristics of Agile Leaders

Although the word “agility” is sometimes overused in the business world, major world events such as those we’re presently experiencing have made it an essential concept for a vast number of organizations.

Charlene Li on the Importance of Social Media to Promote Openness

Facebook isn’t just for college students anymore. Businesses are quickly learning that a social media presence, on Facebook, on Twitter, or on their blogs, can be vastly important to the company. In her new book Open Leadership , Charlene Li talks about how to use these new sites to generate interes

Charles Handy on Eudaemonia and Other Important Matters

Charles Handy is often referred to as Britain's greatest management thinker. He has written some of the most influential management articles and books of the past 30 years, including The Age of Unreason, The Elephant and the Flea, The Future or Work, and The Age of Paradox . In his latest book, Myse

Charles Jacobs on Why Feedback Doesn’t Work

Business people are taught to make decisions with facts and logic, and to avoid emotional bias. But according to the latest research, we almost never decide rationally, despite thinking that we do. Our experiences carry an emotional charge encoded in the synapses of our neurons. And when we try to d

Check In, Don't Check Up

Don't look now, but someone could be watching you as you read this e-mail! OK, maybe that's a little overdramatic, but in many companies employees are treated as if they can't be trusted without constant supervision. Jack Mitchell, best-selling author...

Check Out Your "Rule Book"

Each of us has our own ideas about the proper way of doing things-rules about everything from common courtesy to guidelines for working well with others. Unfortunately, when it comes to right vs. wrong behavior not everyone is on the same page-or even reading from the same book....

Performing a Business Credibility Check

How to avoid (or fix) the seven most common credibility "blind spots."

Checklist for the 21st-Century CFO

Few business roles have changed during the last decade as dramatically as that of the CFO. Formerly viewed as accountants focused on budgets and taxes, today's CFOs are business generalists involved in improving performance across the organization....