Featuring everything you need to know about being an effective leader, The Leadership Skills Handbook will help you develop signature strengths and accelerate leadership success.
The Leadership Skills Handbook gives you the 100 essential tools you need to be an outstanding leader. Taking you beyond just theory, it shows you what works in real life, in a concise, easy-to-follow format. Based on research from over a thousand leaders around the world, from the public, private and voluntary sectors, it identifies the key practical skills that will make you even more successful.
Thoroughly updated to take into account the permanent move to remote and hybrid working and the challenges raised for leadership by artificial intelligence (AI), Jo Owen shows you how you can learn to disagree well, the best ways to get things done, develop your human and political skills in an increasingly AI world and explains how leaders can add value to any organization.
Learn how to become the leader that people want to follow with The Leadership Skills Handbook.
- 336 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART ONE Mindset skills
- 01 Positive leadership
- 02 Responsibility
- 03 High aspirations
- 04 Have courage
- 05 Be adaptable
- 06 Learn to be lucky
- 07 Managing stress
- 08 Honesty
- 09 Self-awareness
- 10 Working to win
- PART TWO Career skills
- 11 Your leadership journey: key principles
- 12 Managing your leadership journey: the map
- 13 Discover your rules of success
- 14 Build your career
- 15 Careers versus careering: avoiding the death stars
- 16 How to gain promotion
- 17 Knowing when to move on
- 18 Coach yourself to success
- 19 Running the leadership marathon
- 20 Staying employable
- PART THREE People skills
- 21 Understand yourself
- 22 Understand others
- 23 Understand how you affect others
- 24 Delegating
- 25 Motivating
- 26 Disagree well
- 27 Valuing others: cultural intelligence
- 28 Give and take
- 29 Managing performance
- 30 Managing professionals
- PART FOUR Moment of truth skills
- 31 Taking control
- 32 Conflict management
- 33 Crisis management
- 34 Dealing with bullies
- 35 Getting your way
- 36 Fighting battles
- 37 Power
- 38 Managing adversity
- 39 Knowing who to trust
- 40 Stepping up
- PART FIVE Daily skills
- 41 Reading
- 42 Writing
- 43 Presenting
- 44 Storytelling
- 45 Listening
- 46 Doing numbers
- 47 Problem solving
- 48 Getting stuff done
- 49 Hearing feedback
- 50 Leading in an AI world
- PART SIX Organization skills
- 51 Making decisions
- 52 Making decisions in uncertainty
- 53 Being productive in an unproductive world
- 54 Effective meetings
- 55 Managing projects
- 56 Setting goals
- 57 Selling and persuading
- 58 Reorganizing
- 59 Selecting your team
- 60 Developing your team
- PART SEVEN Political skills
- 61 Influencing people
- 62 Achieving influence and power
- 63 Influencing decisions
- 64 Learning to say ‘no’
- 65 The partnership principle
- 66 Negotiations
- 67 Networking
- 68 Altitude sickness: dealing with top management
- 69 Managing upwards
- 70 Flattery
- PART EIGHT Financial skills
- 71 Managing budgets
- 72 Negotiating budgets
- 73 Reviewing budgets
- 74 Understand the nature of your costs
- 75 Cutting costs
- 76 Balanced scorecard
- 77 Making an investment case
- 78 Understand your business drivers
- 79 Managing pricing
- 80 Decoding CAPM
- PART NINE The art of strategy
- 81 Creating a vision
- 82 Classical strategy
- 83 Post-modern strategy
- 84 Strategic discussions
- 85 Competitive strategy
- 86 Understanding the customer
- 87 Marketing strategy
- 88 Pricing strategy
- 89 Dealing with advertising
- 90 The advertising brief
- PART TEN The 21st-century challenge
- 91 Why leadership is different in the 21st century
- 92 What’s the point of a manager in the 21st century? The change challenge
- 93 Resilience and the 21st-century leadership marathon
- 94 Leading hybrid teams
- 95 Managing change
- 96 Setting goals for success
- 97 The global leadership challenge
- 98 Leading global teams
- 99 Leading a diverse workforce
- 100 Back to the future: timeless lessons in leadership
- Further reading
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