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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Cheryl Nash on the Highs and Lows of Financial Services

This week, Cheryl Nash talks about her perceived challenges of being a woman in a traditionally male-dominated industry, what qualities exemplify a great leader regardless of gender, and how she learned from her failures and how it helped her in her career. Instrumental to her leadership was the exa

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn on Simplifying Problem Solving

You'd think with all the technology at our fingertips we'd be making decisions faster than ever. But tech still needs a human driver and we're as fallible as ever. Cheryl Strauss Einhorn is here with her new book Problem Solved and her AREA method for streamlining solving complex problems.

Chester Elton on "Carrot" style motivation

Long-term organizational success is almost impossible without effective recognition of employees. Chester Elton explains the remarkably simple but powerful methods great managers use to provide their employees with effective recognition, which all managers can easily learn and begin practicing for i

Chief Experience Officers: Guides to the Experience Staging Journey

Chief experience officers must inhabit five roles to build experience staging into the fiber of an organization and make it a premier experience stager.

Chester Elton and Adrian Gostick on The Best Team Wins

We're back! After a short break we're back with a lineup of exciting guests we're excited to share with you. First, back from our hiatus, old friends of the AMA, The Carrot Guys: Chester Elton and Adrian Gostick. They're here to share some of their favorite stories of teamwork success from their new

China Takes on the Global 500

Learn about the state of Chinese firms

China's Quality Squeeze

Although 70% of product recalls in 2007 involved Chinese-produced goods, many experts predict that the country's supply-chain quality lapses won't slow business expansion in China....

Chip Bell on Extraordinary Customer Service

Chip is the author or co-author of sixteen books including Magnetic Service: Secrets for Creating Passionately Devoted Customers (with Bilijack Bell), Service Magic:The Art of Amazing Your Customers, Customers As Partners: Building Relationships That...

Chip Bell on Creating “Take Their Breath Away” Customer Service

Customers are bored! Service providers, chastised by the “less-than-exciting” results of their surveys, have put all their eggs in the “improvement” basket.” According to Chip Bell, “Take Their Breath Away” service is about bringing a new spirit to the service world. His new book Take Their Breath A

Choosing the Right Growth Strategy

OK, it's been decided that growth-whether in terms of revenue, profit, number of employees or customers, market share or number of locations-is essential to your company's future. Before management makes the leap, there are many questions that must...