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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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....

Cheryl Nash on the Highs and Lows of Financial Services

This week, Cheryl Nash talks about her perceived challenges of being a woman in a traditionally male-dominated industry, what qualities exemplify a great leader regardless of gender, and how she learned from her failures and how it helped her in her career. Instrumental to her leadership was the exa

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn on Simplifying Problem Solving

You'd think with all the technology at our fingertips we'd be making decisions faster than ever. But tech still needs a human driver and we're as fallible as ever. Cheryl Strauss Einhorn is here with her new book Problem Solved and her AREA method for streamlining solving complex problems.

Chester Elton on "Carrot" style motivation

Long-term organizational success is almost impossible without effective recognition of employees. Chester Elton explains the remarkably simple but powerful methods great managers use to provide their employees with effective recognition, which all managers can easily learn and begin practicing for i

Chester Elton and Adrian Gostick on The Best Team Wins

We're back! After a short break we're back with a lineup of exciting guests we're excited to share with you. First, back from our hiatus, old friends of the AMA, The Carrot Guys: Chester Elton and Adrian Gostick. They're here to share some of their favorite stories of teamwork success from their new

Chief Experience Officers: Guides to the Experience Staging Journey

Chief experience officers must inhabit five roles to build experience staging into the fiber of an organization and make it a premier experience stager.

China Takes on the Global 500

Learn about the state of Chinese firms

China's Talent Crunch

Would you believe that China, the world's most populous nation, is experiencing a serious talent shortage? Believe it. A talent-management "perfect storm" of rapid growth, increasing wages, and a skills lag threaten to derail even established...

Chip Bell on Creating “Take Their Breath Away” Customer Service

Customers are bored! Service providers, chastised by the “less-than-exciting” results of their surveys, have put all their eggs in the “improvement” basket.” According to Chip Bell, “Take Their Breath Away” service is about bringing a new spirit to the service world. His new book Take Their Breath A