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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Nancy Duarte on Telling Your Story

Storytelling is an incredibly important business skill, it makes you and your message instantly more memorable. While speed and brevity are essential to a good presentation, a bad story is already too long. Nancy Duarte joins us to talk about the importance of well-constructed stories.

Narnia in the Workplace: Discovering Your Wizard and Warrior Personas

Rather than limit themselves to analyst and caregiver roles, today's leaders and managers need to assume the more dynamic personas of wizard and warrior, bringing creativity and vision to organization cultures that analytic and caregiver models can...

Navigating Your Top Leadership Challenges

Tips for newly promoted admin leaders, from AMA's seminar Stepping Up to Leadership

Need a "Do-over at Work? How to Recover from Stupid Mistakes

Next time you make a mistake at work, follow a strategy well-known to children everywhere-ask for a "do-over." Humorist Judy Carter explains....

How to Negotiate Like a Professional

Negotiation tips from Brian Tracy's book, Management.

Need Talented Performers? Join the Crowd.

"A company's greatest asset is its people," goes the old axiom. But a new business model is arising that could make that statement obsolete. Whether you call it crowd sourcing, mass collaboration or Wikinomics, it could change the way you think about...

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Next time you make a mistake at work, follow a strategy well-known to children everywhere-ask for a "do-over." Humorist Judy Carter explains....

Negotiating Abroad: Overcoming Challenges

Srategies for dealing with the challenges faced by global negotiators.

Negotiating without Wrecking a Relationship

When you're involved in a negotiation with someone who you'll never have to see again, the object of the game is simple: may the best negotiator win. But what about when your counterpart in the negotiation is someone whom you'll have to work with often? Michael Watkins, best-selling author of The Fi