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

Chaos Needs a Plan

One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been positives and negatives, but managers still need to plan for continued uncertainty.

Charlene Li on the Importance of Social Media to Promote Openness

Facebook isn’t just for college students anymore. Businesses are quickly learning that a social media presence, on Facebook, on Twitter, or on their blogs, can be vastly important to the company. In her new book Open Leadership , Charlene Li talks about how to use these new sites to generate interes

Characteristics of Agile Leaders

Although the word “agility” is sometimes overused in the business world, major world events such as those we’re presently experiencing have made it an essential concept for a vast number of organizations.

Casting the Staff for Your Service Department

Here are three qualities to use to hire top performers for your service department

Check In, Don't Check Up

Don't look now, but someone could be watching you as you read this e-mail! OK, maybe that's a little overdramatic, but in many companies employees are treated as if they can't be trusted without constant supervision. Jack Mitchell, best-selling author...

Charles Jacobs on Why Feedback Doesn’t Work

Business people are taught to make decisions with facts and logic, and to avoid emotional bias. But according to the latest research, we almost never decide rationally, despite thinking that we do. Our experiences carry an emotional charge encoded in the synapses of our neurons. And when we try to d

Change Leadership for Complex Business Transformation

Constant change is the new normal in business.

Performing a Business Credibility Check

How to avoid (or fix) the seven most common credibility "blind spots."

Checking in with Cia Sherman

An update with the winner of the 2013 AMA Innovation Award for Administrative Professionals.

Checklist for the 21st-Century CFO

Few business roles have changed during the last decade as dramatically as that of the CFO. Formerly viewed as accountants focused on budgets and taxes, today's CFOs are business generalists involved in improving performance across the organization....