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

Understanding the Changing Relationship Between Strategy and Culture

A critical goal for leaders is to deliver on their strategy promises to stakeholders. When leaders understand the relationship affecting strategy, culture, and execution, they can achieve this goal.

Understanding the Characteristics and Motivations of Generation Z

AMA Quarterly spoke with Angie Read, co-author with Jeff Fromm of Marketing to Gen Z: The Rules for Reaching This Vast—and Very Different—Generation of Influencers (AMACOM, 2018).

Understanding the Ecosystem of Consumer Demand

Here's some food for thought: if you really want to please your customers, stop listening to them. Instead, design and market your product or service around the landscapes of people's lives-the projects, tasks, jobs, concerns, and activities that...

Understanding the Myths About Project Status Meetings

Learn how to successfully run a project status meeting.

Understanding What's Behind Change Firms

An interview with McKinsey's Claudio Feser on his study of serial innovators.

Understanding Your Coaching Role

Learn how important coaching is to your role as manager and leader.

University Health System's Administrative Professionals Academy: A Case Study in Excellence

University Health System's Administrative Professionals Academy is a case study in excellence.

Unlocking Big Data: A Strategy for Workforce Analytics

Learn how to convert workforce data into meaningful insights to grow your company.

Unlocking the Leader Within: Conquering Stage Fright

Next week Bob, a junior executive, has to present his team’s project status to senior management. Whenever he even thinks about his presentation, his hands start shaking, he starts perspiring, and his stomach starts dancing the jitterbug.

Using "No Limit" Poker Strategies to Win in Business

Winning in business is much like winning at poker: you've got to know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. The authors of No Limit: The Texas Hold 'Em Guide to Winning in Business share theair proven strategies to raise your odds...v