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

Overcoming Objections

How to deal with customer objections, from Brian Tracy's new book Unlimited Sales Success.

Overcoming the Barriers to Decision Making

If your boss is away or unavailable, do you have the ability and confidence to step up and deal with decisions that must be made immediately? These tips from AMA’s seminar “Partnering with Your Boss: Strategic Skills for Administrative Professionals,” will help you discover new ways to enhance your

Overcoming the Enemies of Business Agility

Addiction to success and overlooking the value of small changes are two key obstacles to agility.

Overcoming the Five Barriers to Influence

Clear the path for your great idea to succeed by planning a route around each of these five roadblocks to successful influence....

Overcoming the Top Five Networking Stumbling Blocks

What's keeping you from growing your professional network? Are you shy? Or are you worried about appearing pushy? Business etiquette expert Lydia Ramsey explains what to do when your networking skills are not working....

Overused Buzzwords: It's All Good at the End of the Day

At the end of the day, we’re all on the same page about the need to interface about thinking outside the box. Huh? If you’ve ever been tempted to play “buzz word bingo” during a meeting or presentation, check out this new survey of the most annoying and overused business buzzwords. (We’ll circle bac

Paddy Miller on Mission Critical Innovation

Paddy Miller is professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School. Dr. Miller is the author of a recent book, Mission Critical Leadership . Dr. Miller’s specializes in leadership, change management, and innovation, with a focus on multinational organizations. Dr. Miller has becom

Own the Room: Shape Your Organization's Conversation About Presence

There is no question that beyond technical skills and a results orientation, having leadership presence sets a high-potential professional apart from the rest.

Painting a Picture Gives You Executive Presence

A brief description of how to convey a powerful presence

Pandemic Preparations

How will businesses worldwide be affected if the worst-case scenario of a bird flu pandemic becomes a reality? Governments around the world are just beginning to prepare for a major pandemic. So far, only about 30 countries have national plans. What...