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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Stephen M. R. Covey on How to Build, Keep and Repair Trust

Stephen M.R. Covey is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. A Harvard MBA, he joined Covey Leadership Center as a Client Developer and later became National Sales Manager and then President & CEO. Unde

Stephen M.R. Covey on Using Trust for a New Year of Success

In this week's You've Been Spotted segment, Kevin Lee asks participants from AMA's course Coaching and Counseling for Outstanding Job Performance "about their "Trust Resolution" for the new year. Listen to these participants share practices, tips and guidelines they've learned from the course.

Stephen Woessner on Profitable Podcasting

Podcast consumption has been on a steady uptick and isn't going anywhere. Hosting a podcast is a great form of publicity and business development for even the smallest business owners but getting started can be daunting. Stephen Woessner , author of Profitable Podcasting , published by AMACOM, is he

Stephen Wunker on Jobs to Be Done

Stephen Wunker says most companies are innovating the wrong way. They're making what their customers say they want. Instead they should be asking "why" their customers want those things and making a product the customer didn't even know the needed. Today on Edgewise Stephen joins us to give examples

Stephen Wunker on Capturing New Markets

Exxon is to kerosene as Nintendo Wii is to Atari. In his book Capturing New Markets , Stephen Wunker expounds on the premise that with every successful new product, platform or medium, comes an underrepresented audience to be tapped into. Wunker explicitly explains how to leverage innovation for mar

Steve Kerr on Performance Rewards Systems That Really Work

It’s one of the thorniest management problems around: dealing with unmotivated, low-performing employees. It’s easy to point the finger of blame at them. But in most companies, it’s the reward system, not the workforce, that’s causing poor attitudes and performance: many reward systems actually disc

Steve McKee on What to Do When Growth Stalls

Stalled growth is the rule, not the exception—even for the best-managed companies. That’s especially true in unpredictable economic environments such as the one we’re experiencing today. Steve McKee commissioned a study of 700 companies that had at one time been among the nation’s fastest-growing bu

Steve Cone on Successful Marketing Through a Recession

With more than 35 years at the top of the marketing profession,   Steve Cone   has led campaigns for many companies including Citigroup, American Express, Fidelity, Apple, and United Airlines, as well as presidential campaigns for both major parties.

Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal on Optimizing Your Consciousness

Extasis is an ancient Greek word that refers to non-ordinary states of consciousness. While not all methods of achieving extasis are work friendly, having access to higher thought processes to solve problems creatively is a skill any employer would be happy to encourage. Steven Kotler and Jamie Whea

Steven Pressfield on Doing the Work

How many brilliant projects have you begun in your mind? In this episode of Edgewise, author Steven Pressfield discusses his latest book, Do the Work, which is geared to be a mental boot camp that kick starts artists and entrepreneurs out of their heads and into action. He takes on public enemy #1,