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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Nearly every time we give a speech or conduct a workshop, someone asks, “Are leaders born or made?”

Managing PR in the Digital Age

Interview with Amy Binder, CEO of RF|Binder Partners, to discuss the current and future state of the PR business.

Power Up for Success: How to Increase Your Professional Voltage

How to increase your power and influence at work.

Practicing Preventive Management

Preventive management is a way to minimize problems in process or operations; a method for continuous improvement.

Presentation Horror Stories

Cue the scary music. Just in time for Halloween, <i>Performance & Profits</i> offers a sample of tales about presentation nightmares that are guaranteed to give you goose bumps. Don't read this alone....

Presentation Tips: 8 Ways to Captivate and Engage Your Audience

Memorable speakers have one thing in common: they know how to create a connection with their listeners. Here are 8 proven presentation tips to engage and involve your audience:

Preventing the Nightmare of Workplace Violence

Half of U.S. firms with 1,000 employees or more reported an incident of workplace violence within a 12-month period, according to a 2005 survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But about 70% of the establishments surveyed did not have a program or...

Pricing Strategy: Pricking the Veil of Value Exchange

Learn why today pricing must be focused on value exchange

Priority Project Management

Learn how to identify decision criteria by prioritizing scope, schedule and costs during project planning....

Corporate Productivity: How to Improve Productivity in an Organization

When times get tough, productivity becomes an overriding priority. Your organization has to get the most out of every resource, even while cutting nonessential costs. But which productivity-enhancement practices are most effective? In May 2008 the...