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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The Orange Revolution: The Carrot Principle

What does it take to create a superstar team? The fundamentals are fairly simple, says the coauthor of the new book The Orange Revolution: How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization. To begin, focus on “bringing the wow.”

The Essentials of Communicating with Tact and Diplomacy in the Workplace

Communicating with tact and diplomacy is critical to success for business leaders. When people lack these qualities in their workplace interactions, situations such as this arise:

The Importance of High-Impact Succession Planning

Your goals must be clear if you want to take succession planning seriously. In order to create a talent pipeline to meet emerging leadership needs, it's important to tie performance and potential together. This will enable you to fill critical...

The Importance of Leadership Training for All Employees - AMA

Traditionally, leaders are responsible for establishing and communicating the vision and mission of the organization to their groups. Today, however, the job must extend to leadership training.

The Innovation Coach

A challenge for leaders is to communicate the importance of innovation and renewal and to create a culture that encourages those within the organization to learn and to change. The means to learn this skill may rest with study of species of birds.

The Ins and Outs of Innovation

Is strengthening a firm's internal capacity for innovation a key differentiator when it comes to business competition? Or is it okay-even preferable, perhaps-to seek innovation from external sources? Such is the conundrum facing today's organizations....

The Introvert's Guide to Connecting

You can advance your career if you step out of your shell and become a more effective communicator.

The Intangibles of Leadership

Here's a list of leadership values to keep on your bulletin board.

The Invisible Employee

With Halloween just around the corner, here's a scary management story: there are terrifying, unseen creatures lurking in your workplace. And like the undead in a B-horror movie, they threaten to sap the life force from everyone they meet. The authors of a new book call this creature "the invisible

The Latest on Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance

From e-mail monitoring and Website blocking to phone tapping and GPS tracking, employers increasingly combine technology with policy to manage productivity and minimize litigation, security, and other risks.