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

Why Managers Need to Think Strategically

Learn the eight steps importrant to strategic thinking.

Why Our Leaders Need to Change Their Focus NOW

Sander A. Flaum urges U.S. leaders to embrace their natural inner paranoia and act now to restore our country's scientific and technological expertise before it's too late....

Why Projects Fail

Statistics vary as to how many projects fail, but everyone agrees the number is too high. AMA’s seminar Project Team Leadership: Building Commitment Through Superior Communication lists four main reasons for project failure. #1: Projects are not clearly defined at the executive level.

Why Running a Business Is Like Raising a Teenager

Like a 15-year-old who is told "no" by one parent and "yes" by another, employees become confused and less effective if they receive mixed messages from senior management....

Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail

What makes the difference between successful and unsuccessful firms.

Why Some Work Teams Collaborate Better Than Others

Why do some teams work well together while others don’t? It seems like such a simple question, but the secret to building a high-performing team is not so obvious.

Why Workforce Talk Tells You What You Got

learn how staff conversations reflect work style and employee approach to work.

Why Your Corporate Strategy Should Be Dynamic

Whether you’re a startup producing the latest innovations or an established organization, your corporate strategic planning process must deliver a dynamic strategy to build agility organization-wide.

Why Your Employees Should Join the Army

What if everyone in your organization were as dedicated to its success as the CEO or the owner? The workforce would function as “an army of entrepreneurs,” which just happens to be the title of an insightful new book by Jennifer Prosek. Adopt her strategies and watch employee motivation, productivit

Why So Many Changes Fail—and What You Can Do About It

Here are four key steps that will enable you to make change happen.