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

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.

Performance...It's All About A+ Execution

Over the course of his career, former CEO Sander Flaum has learned that if you don't take control of your time, others will do it for you. Here are his strategies for leading more efficiently and effectively....

Peter Drucker to the Rescue

Over the course of his career, former CEO Sander Flaum has learned that if you don't take control of your time, others will do it for you. Here are his strategies for leading more efficiently and effectively....

Peter Drucker's Story of Two Vice Presidents (Why What Everybody Knows Is Frequently Wrong)

Long considered the world's greatest thinker and writer on management, Peter Drucker's teachings continue to inspire leaders. In this excerpt from his new book A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher (AMACOM, 2007), William Cohen describes a lesson he learne

Piecing Together the Engagement Puzzle

The gestalt principle tells us that the sum of the whole is greater than its parts, and that may be particularly true for organizations seeking to piece together the "engagement" puzzle. Since employee engagement is influenced by work, people, and...

Managing PR in the Digital Age

Interview with Amy Binder, CEO of RF|Binder Partners, to discuss the current and future state of the PR business.

Corporate Productivity: How to Improve Productivity in an Organization

When times get tough, productivity becomes an overriding priority. Your organization has to get the most out of every resource, even while cutting nonessential costs. But which productivity-enhancement practices are most effective? In May 2008 the...

Power Mentoring: How to Get the Most Out of a Mentoring Relationship

The authors of the new book Power Mentoring: How Successful Mentors and Proteges Get the Most Out of Their Relationships discuss the latest innovation in mentoring: a broad network of various types of mentors, rather than the old one-on-one model....

Productivity: Cut the Slackers Some Slack, Organizations Share the Blame

Did you ever have one of those days where it doesn't seem like you've accomplished anything? You might shrug your shoulders and tell yourself that every one has an "off day" occasionally. If you're anything like the average U.S. worker, however, you...