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

Picking the Late Bloomers

Everyone's heard of Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Gen Yers. But according to Human Resource Institute (HRI), companies should pay attention to another, lesser-known group, the "late bloomers." These folks are mid-30s on up, experienced, smart and...

Picture This

Did you know that the brain processes images 60,000 times faster than words alone? Even the simplest hand-drawn pictures can illustrate an idea with powerful results. Dan Roam, author of the new book <i>The Back of the Napkin</i>, describes how the...

Piecing Together the Engagement Puzzle

The gestalt principle tells us that the sum of the whole is greater than its parts, and that may be particularly true for organizations seeking to piece together the "engagement" puzzle. Since employee engagement is influenced by work, people, and...

Piyanka Jain on How to Make the Right Decisions

It can be nerve-wracking to make decisions. How will you know if it's the right decision? Sometimes you can't know until it's already too late. Piyanka Jain , in her new book Behind Every Good Decision , co-written by Puneet Sharma and published by AMACOM, offers a framework to sort through all the

Plan to Succeed in 2014

Brian Tracy's tips for achieving goals and executing strategy.

Playing not to Lose

High-performing companies are already planning for an upcoming war for talent.

Plato, Competencies, and the Ideal Employee

New insights from i4cp about talent competencies.

Poised for Success

Is your hiring program based on the bipolar model that says potential employees are either "active" (looking for a job) or "passive" (employed and not looking)? If so, you could be missing out on the 70% of employees who don't fit either category. The...

Power Mentoring: How to Get the Most Out of a Mentoring Relationship

The authors of the new book Power Mentoring: How Successful Mentors and Proteges Get the Most Out of Their Relationships discuss the latest innovation in mentoring: a broad network of various types of mentors, rather than the old one-on-one model....