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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Customized Training Empowers ABB’s Global, Technical Workforce

ABB is a pioneering technology leader in power grids, electrification products, industrial automation, and robotics and motion, serving customers globally in utilities, industry and transport, and infrastructure.

Delivering Excellent and Ethical Customer Service

Chip R. Bell learned some life-long lessons about customer service growing up on a cattle ranch.

Disinterest in Your Customer's Needs

Regardless of the economy, not all sales personnel seem motivated to attend to their customers.

Does Your Business Need a Chief Customer Officer?

Is a C-level customer service person the key to taking your company's sales to the next level? Maybe. Or maybe not. An experienced CCO offers advice to help you decide....

Eight Tips for Changing Your Customer Service Culture

Improving customer service is not a quick-fix process. It starts with a total commitment to cultural change and a long-term commitment to quality that is accepted by everyone in the organization, from top to bottom. Here are eight essential rules for...

Eight Tips for Hiring Talented Service Staff

To get the right kind of people for your company's service department, you have to know what you're looking for and how to look for them. More specifically, here are eight gudielines to ensure you bring the best employees into your service oepration.

Everything She Knows as a CEO She Learned as a Waitress

Before she became CEO of her own $29-million transportation and distribution company, Carolyn Gable spent her time waiting on tables and worrying about how she was going to feed her seven kids. She didn't earn an MBA at a famous B school; she didn't even attend college. Remarkably, as she explains i

Framing Your Messages for Improved Business Communication

A frame is a lens through which people interpret the information they receive. As it relates to improving business communication, framing a message is about positioning it so that both the intention and the content are interpreted as they were meant.

Hear Them Roar (and See Them Buy): How to Capture Today's Hottest Market

Women-owned businesses in the United States employ over 19 million people and generate $2.5 trillion in revenues. If your business isn't marketing to this growing, powerful segment, it's missing a huge opportunity....

Hiring the Cast for Your Service Department

Hiring out your service department with people who can star in their roles is the key to success in customer service.