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

Happy for Good Reasons

Learn how to make your staff happy and, thereby, productive.

Have More Fun at Work

Cindy Lauper famously sang that "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," but it turns out that employees need some fun, too. Business professor/author Leslie Yerkes explains how a pleasurable work environment can boost both worker morale and the bottom line....

Checking for Diversity Blindspots

How to ensure that others perceive you accurately.

Have You Heard About “Mesh” Businesses?

Learn about how companies are using the data collection skills from the Internet to create a new form of business.

Harnessing Your Company's “Rudolphs” to Drive Innovation

How to identify and nurture your company's top innovators ("Rudolphs").

Having a Hard Time Managing Change? You're Not Alone

The ever-accelerating pace of change is one of the greatest challenges facing business today, but according to a new study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity, many companies aren't ready for it....

Having Trouble Dealing with Change? Get a Life!

Here's some shocking but encouraging news: the people who are most adept at dealing with organizational change are those who not only have a career-they actually have a life....

Haydn Shaw on the Influx of the New Generation

There has been a recent influx of new Gen-X workers, causing much confusion in the workplace for the older generations. Hadyn Shaw , author of the book Sticking Point , analyzes some of the points of aggravation that causes friction in the workplace when working with such broad generational gap. One

Heads Up Leaders: It's Time to Make "Friends" with Web 2.0

If you don’t know what a wiki is, it’s time to move your business out of the 20th century.