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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A New Look at a Leader's "First 100 Days"

The first 100 days on the job are critical for any new leader. How to succeed? Concentrate less on endless meetings and e-mails and focus on planning and achieving top line growth....

A Performance Review System That Works For Everyone

Here are 20 questions as foundation of an effective performance review.

A Reminder About Empowerment

Learn some rules about empowerment

A Q-and-A with Jim Kilts, Former CEO of Gillette

During his time at Gillette, Jim Kilts cemented his reputation as one of the most talented CEOs in America by turning around a once-great company that had lost its edge. <A href="http://podcast.amanet....

A Roadmap to Challenging Conversations

A three-step approach to difficult workplace conversations: prepare, plan, and practice.

A Roadmap to Successful Enterprise Transformation

Learn the mistakes in organization transformation.

Simple Strategies to Boost Your Career

How writing regular status updates for you boss can help your career.

A Study of Building Analytical Skills in the Workforce

Read about AMA/i4cp study on analytics that showed increasing interest in analytics by companies.

A Smarter Way to Brainstorm

Linus Pauling once said: "If you want great ideas, you need to have lots of ideas." Brainstorming is the most popular technique for producing lots of ideas. But although it is widely practiced, brainstorming is seldom utilized to its full potential....

A Socratic Approach to Successful Selling

The Socratic Method remains as relevant today as it was in ancient Greece. Using targeted Q&A, the savvy salesperson can create a Socratic dialog with the customer to determine how to best meet the customer's needs-and close the sale....