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

Partners in Training: The Global Role of Unions

Increasingly, unions serve as useful training partners in some nations, but in others their role is minimal. Human Resource Institute examines unions' roles in training around the globe....

Outlook for European Employees in 2007

In Europe, training and development will take priority over pay raises in the coming year, according to a survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. And those employees who will be in highest demand will be people with sales and marketing skills....

Partying During the Downturn

To party or not to party? For many corporate leaders, that is indeed the question as 2008 limps to a close. In the wake of layoffs and a general climate of belt-tightening, one thing is sure: nobody's partying like it's 1999....

How Companies use Pay For Performance Effectively

High performance maintain a strong link between pay and performance.

Paying People to Show Up

The majority of companies use some sort of pay for performance method, but controversy around the practice has begun cropping up over the past few years.

How to Properly Rate Performance Management

Employee management trends come and go, but everyone agrees that there are no easy answers.

Performance Review Hooey

After calculating the time, expense, and lack of return on investment, companies like Lockheed, Adobe Systems, and NASA have pulled the plug on performance reviews. Are reviews just a bunch of “hooey”? Kevin Herring suggests an alternative.

Picking the Late Bloomers

Everyone's heard of Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Gen Yers. But according to Human Resource Institute (HRI), companies should pay attention to another, lesser-known group, the "late bloomers." These folks are mid-30s on up, experienced, smart and...

Playing not to Lose

High-performing companies are already planning for an upcoming war for talent.

Plato, Competencies, and the Ideal Employee

New insights from i4cp about talent competencies.