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

Avoiding the Responsibility Trap

Extremes in taking or giving responsibility can produce conflict because of the reaction they produce in others. When one person fails to take responsibility, others can resent being left with the blame or the work.

Avoiding the Commitment Dip

During any change initiative, there's a point when employee focus and commitment falls off. A new survey reveals the steps high-performing leaders take to get things back on track-before it's too late....

Baker Street Irregular Behavior in Your Organization

Conflict often erupts between different individuals and groups that each assume that the other individuals and groups were present only as bit players or, as the author refers to them, as "Baker Street Irregulars or Red Shirts in Star Trek movies."

Banishing Boring Meetings

How to make business meetings more effective, from the author of Boring Meetings Suck.

Be Credible or Be Cooked

Learn why credibility is what is important as a leader.

Be a Gold Medal Communicator

Advice on being an outstanding communicator

Be As Resilient as a Rubber BAND

Here are four critical qualities of resiliency.

Barry Libert on How "We" Are Smarter Than "Me"

Online Social Networking is a reality. The millions of people who have a Facebook or MySpace page, or anyone who uses Wikipedia or Google, knows this. But for today's companies, the question remains, how can we profit from the crowds who are swarming all over the internet? Drawing on their own resea

Be Decisive

Decisions are what define a leader. One CEO I interviewed said that you need leaders only for the big decisions that affected the organization as a whole.