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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Facebook vs. Face Time

The value of face to face communication in our high-tech age.

Executing Strategy: Achieving Results

Here are five bridges to close strategy execution gaps.

Facebook's Libra: Friend or Foe for Mainstreaming Blockchain Technology?

Facebook’s announcement of its entry into the cryptocurrency space with “Libra” has created quite a bit of attention and controversy. Understanding what the underlying technology is and what Facebook’s intent is will help individuals better evaluate if it is a welcome addition to the blockchain conv

Facing Down the Dragon: How American Firms Can Successfully Compete with Chinese Competition

Think your company can't compete with the Chinese? There is some good news. For starters, the Chinese operate under four disadvantages: longer shipping time, higher freight costs, less flexibility and a limited capacity to customize products and...

Facing the Challenge of Stalled Growth

Many fast-growth companies suffer from stalled growth in good times and bad. In his book When Growth Stalls, Steve McKee shares his insights into how it happens and what to do about it. In an interview, the president of McKee Wallwork Cleveland Advertising identified three external factors and four

Factors That Determine a Manager’s Level of Authority

Where does a manager’s authority in an organization come from? Officially, it is given to them by the company’s upper management.

Failing Your Way to Success

Had any good failures lately? If not, maybe you haven't had any great successes, either. Forward-thinking organizations looking to increase innovation have discovered that if they want their people to find out of the box solutions, they have to...

If you Fail to Plan you Plan to Fail

An introduction to project management for administrative professionals.

Faith at Work Is No Longer Taboo

How should a company respond to requests for prayer breakfasts? How about e-mail sign-offs that quote Scripture? These are just two of the challenges presented by the burgeoning "faith-at-work movement." Time will tell whether these issues will become a legal minefield or a source of competitive adv

Famous Objections and How to Overcome Them

What do you do when a prospect tells you, "Send me information about your company/products/services in the mail?" Paul S. Goldner, the author of Red-Hot Cold Call Selling, has two, not one, surefire responses....