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

Jason Wingard on Keeping Up with Business Education

Jason Wingard , author of Learning to Succeed: Rethinking Corporate Education in a World of Unrelenting Change , has a formula for how to keep up with the ever-changing business environment. On this episode he lays out a concise training strategy and how to overcome barriers to learning integration,

Jennifer Kahnweiler on the Genius of Opposites

Introverts and extroverts have different and sometimes contradictory strengths. When they pair up and manage to find a way to work together, introverts and extroverts can create power teams. Jennifer Kahnweiler, Ph.D. , author of the new book The Genius of Opposites , joins us again to give us examp

Jeff Rosenblum on Stopping Friction for Your Customers

Friction is an unfortunate part of life but it can be overcome. Jeff Rosenblum , co-director of the new documentary The Naked Brand, joins us to talk about the various kinds of friction we encounter and how brands can remove what is stopping their customers from making purchasing decisions.

Jennifer Kahnweiler on the Introvert Advantage

According to Jennifer Kahnweiler , author of Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength, introversion is a trait shared by society’s most distinguished leaders: Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and President Obama. In this episode of Edgewise, she provides tips on how to harness attributes common

Jeremy Goldman on Going Social

Social media is the go-to tool for businesses to connect to their customers. However, many businesses use the wrong type of social media or lose sight of what is important to their business model. Join Jeremy Goldman , author of the book Going Social , as he talks about the traps and pitfalls a busi

Jill Griffin on Earning Loyalty in a Search and Switch World

The ability to compare price and product created by Internet search engines coupled with our insatiable desire for instant information have created a volatile new breed of buyer, the search and switch customer. In these bruising economic times, businesses unprepared to address this buyer are losing

Jim Champy on How to Outsmart Your Competition

Jim Champy inspired legions of business leaders with his bestseller Reengineering the Corporation. In his new book Outsmart! , Champy describes nine companies that have achieved breakthrough growth by consistently outsmarting the competition. Champy tells their fascinating success stories, revealing

Jim Collins and Mort Hansen on Flourishing in Uncertainty

Jim Collins and Mort Hansen , coauthors of the book Great By Choice , discuss their research on fundamental business concepts and why some companies excel in chaos, turbulence, and uncertainty while others do not. Collins describes it as the most fascinating analysis that he’s ever been associated w

Jim Leighton on Getting FIT

Are you a TGIF kind of worker or for you is it TGIM, Thank God It’s Monday? It might have to do with how much passion you have for your work. If your values and principles don’t align with your company’s, you might not be as successful in the workplace as you might think, your lack of enthusiasm eve

Jim Kirkpatrick on Revamping Training to Increase its Business Impact

Training can’t be a rote process; for the most effective results, job training needs to be customized to each specific audience. Sometimes it even needs to start backwards, focusing on the result first and then moving back to the process. That way training becomes streamlined, more effective, and co