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

The Seven Keys to Effective Delegation

Delegation tips for managers from Brian Tracy's book Delegation & Supervision.

The Seven Rules That Lead to Great Ideas

Ask the right question and you're already halfway to the right answer. Here are seven tips that will help you bring your problem into sharp focus....

The Seven Secrets of Inspirational Leaders

If you adopt these secrets of leaders who inspire, motivate, and exert a positive influence on their people, customers will want to do business with you, employees will want to work with you, and investors will want to back you....

The Seven-Second Advantage

For better or worse, most people form an opinion of you in just seven seconds. Psychologist Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D., explains how to make those crucial moments work in your favor....

The Silent Language of Leadership

Peter Drucker once said, "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said." Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D., explains how your body language may be getting in the way of what you want to say....

The Six Keys to Growing Your Company the Old-Fashioned Way

A new book shows how 22 companies including SYSCO, Outback Steakhouse, and Best Buy prosper by growing organically-increasing their customer base, creating new products, and mastering operational efficiency-without resorting to accounting...

The Six Essential Characteristics of Successful People

Liza Siegel, Ph.D., the consulting psychologist for the hit reality show "The Apprentice" and author of the new book Suite Success, discusses what it takes to succeed, whether on a reality show or in reality....

The Six Principles of the Psychology of Growth

These six principles promote entrepreneurship, growth strategy, and business innovation, the key elements to achieving and sustaining business growth.

The Skills Managers Need to Fix the Digital Workplace

The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a sudden and aggressive shift to virtual work.

The Skills Humans Need to Stay Relevant In The Smart Machine Age

In the coming decades, the smart machine age will transform organizations through artificial intelligence and other technologies. As a variety of jobs are automated, the disruption will equal that of the Industrial Revolution, according to Edward Hess, professor and Batten Executive-in-Residence at