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

Hang Out the Lifelines

Here are ways to open up communication with staff and peers.

Hang on to Your New Hires

How to retain new and existing employees.

Happy for Good Reasons

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

Harnessing the Power of Collaboration

Why collaboration is critical to an organization's survival.

Harnessing Your Company's “Rudolphs” to Drive Innovation

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

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.

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