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

Resilience: The Secret to Success

Why do some people remain so calm and collected in the face of looming deadlines, combative meetings, impending layoffs, and turbulent changes? The key, the experts say, is resilience. The good news is that anyone can learn how to weather storms...

Resilience: A Lasting Advantage

Business often feels like a contact sport. Your competitors want to rough you up, blitz you with unexpected new products, undercut your prices, gang up on you via alliances or mergers and hammer away at your stock price. The important thing is a...

Resistance to Change: Martyrs, the Oasis, and Copycats

Learn how copycats, martyrs, and the oasis phenomenon interfere with positive change.

Resolutions You Can Keep

New Year's is the traditional time to set new goals, both for yourself and your organization. We asked Performance & Profits readers to tell us their New Year's resolutions for the workplace, and here's what they said....

Restructuring Professional Development in a Work-from-Home Economy

Heraclitus once stated that “the only constant in life is change.”

Retain Employees by Ignoring the Turnover Rate

i4cp looks at the relationship between the employee turnover rate and market performance.

Retention before the Fact

The time to start thinking about retention is not as your employees are walking out, but when they're walking in. Many firms have found that making retention a chief consideration in the recruitment process has reduced turnover and improved...

Rev Up Your Company's Driving Force

What is your company's "driving force"? It's your organization's people, according to Peter W. Schutz, former CEO of Porsche. In his new book, The Driving Force: Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People, Schutz offers ten ways you can change mediocre work to extraordinary performance....

Revealed: The Secrets to Becoming Organized

Do you waste precious minutes-or even hours-searching for information or documents? Do you find that despite your best intentions, your "to-do" list never morphs into a "got-it-done" list? These simple tips from organizational expert Carol Halsey will put you in control of your workday and your life

Reverse Engineer to Create Templates

Learn how to develop templates and save writing time.