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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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....

Paul Smith on Selling with a Story

Paul Smith , author of Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story , has come out with a third installment of the series: Sell with a Story . He joins us to talk about how to set aside a portion of your sales pitch to tell stories to make your selling even more effective.

Pricing Strategy: Pricking the Veil of Value Exchange

Learn why today pricing must be focused on value exchange

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:

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...

Productivity and Office Design: Beyond Feng Shui

Imagine the typical office: drab decor, boring color scheme, sterile lighting. It's not a pretty picture. Nor is it a productive one, at least according to a recent survey conducted by Gensler, an architecture and design firm. The study found that the...

Productivity: Cut the Slackers Some Slack, Organizations Share the Blame

Did you ever have one of those days where it doesn't seem like you've accomplished anything? You might shrug your shoulders and tell yourself that every one has an "off day" occasionally. If you're anything like the average U.S. worker, however, you...

Profitability vs. Growth: How to Achieve Both

Bottom-line margin or top-line growth? Ask managers which they want and they will tell you "both." But research into over a thousand companies shows that only 32% are able to achieve both more often than not. With the odds stacked against them, how...

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