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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John Kotter on Adjusting Your Management Style

Complacency is a real problem in the workforce but panicking and crying wolf to combat it doesn't work. What John Kotter , author of That's Not How We Do It Here!, calls "sustained urgency" will eventually wear off and complacency will set in again. Instead, as research as shown, positive energy can

John Hoover and Paul Gorrell on Connecting Coaching to the Organization

Coaching has traditionally focused entirely on the individual…sometimes even at the expense of improving measurable business results for the company. The Coaching Connection (AMACOM) by John Hoover and Paul J. Gorrell shows managers how they can use contextual coaching to simultaneously promote both

John Kotter on How to Get the People in Your Life to Buy In to Your Ideas

You’ve got a great idea and you’ve made it all the way to that important meeting. Now you’ve just got to get everyone else to agree with you. John Kotter’s new book Buy In is for you. He’s distilled the most common objections to ideas and written right responses to push back and not take “no” (or “n

John Kotter on Using Urgency to Your Advantage

Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change , John Kotter revealed why change is so hard, and provided an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations. The boo

John Mariotti on Conquering the Complexity Crisis

In the quest to grow their business in flat or declining markets, many companies have created dozens of new products and services to increase their customer, vendor, and marketplace relationships. But even as top-line revenues go up, this rising tide of complexity is drowning bottom-line p

John Mattone on Creating a Sustainable Organization through Leadership Management and Development

John Mattone, author of Talent Leadership: A Proven Method for Identifying and Developing High-Potential Employees, joins us on Edgewise today to share the findings of his extensive research on talent management. Mattone explains how organizations can mitigate their operating risk and drive breakthr

John Putzier and Dave Baker on Making HR an Integral Part of the Company

Gone are the days of HR only being good for the company picnic. John Putzier and Dave Baker , authors of the new book The Everything HR Kit , want Human Resources to start inspiring their employees on day one and then never stop. Though HR often has to take a legal stance and say no sometimes, they

John Quelch on Best Marketing Practices in a Recession

John Quelch   is the author of   Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy . John was one of ten marketing experts profiled in the 2007 book,   Conversations with Marketing Masters , authored by Laura Mazur and Louella Miles. A professor at Harvard Business School si

John Beeson on the Unwritten Rules of Getting Ahead

You work hard and get consistently solid performance reviews but still haven’t landed the coveted management level promotion you know you deserve. In his new book, Unwritten Rules , John Beeson explains that you need to be much more than a workhorse to transcend the cubicle walls and just how take t

Johnny Taylor on Getting Good Hires Now

Even with the economy in a downturn, companies still need to invest in new talent. Johnny Taylor says that the race to find good talent is coming soon and smart employers are starting early.