The Leadership Skills Handbook

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.

• Section - 01: MINDSET SKILLS;
• • Chapter - 01: Positive leadership;
  • Chapter - 02: Responsibility;
  • Chapter - 03: High aspirations;
  • Chapter - 04: Have courage;
  • Chapter - 05: Be adaptable;
  • Chapter - 06: Learn to be lucky;
  • Chapter - 07: Managing stress;
  • Chapter - 08: Honesty;
  • Chapter - 09: Self-awareness;
  • Chapter - 10: Working to win;
• Section - 02: CAREER SKILLS
• • Chapter - 01: Your leadership journey: key principles;
  • Chapter - 02: Managing your leadership journey;
  • Chapter - 03: Discover your rules of success;
  • Chapter - 04: Build your career;
  • Chapter - 05: Careers versus careering: avoiding the death stars;
  • Chapter - 06: How not to get promoted;
  • Chapter - 07: Knowing when to move on;
  • Chapter - 08: Coach yourself to success;
  • Chapter - 09: Running the leadership marathon;
  • Chapter - 10: Staying employable;
• Section - 03: PEOPLE SKILLS;
• • Chapter - 01: Understand yourself;
  • Chapter - 02: Understand others;
  • Chapter - 03: Understand how you affect others;
  • Chapter - 04: Delegating;
  • Chapter - 05: Motivating;
  • Chapter - 06: Coaching;
  • Chapter - 07: Valuing others: cultural intelligence;
  • Chapter - 08: Managing expectations;
  • Chapter - 09: Managing performance;
  • Chapter - 10: Managing Professionals;
• Section - 04: MOMENT OF TRUTH SKILLS;
• • Chapter - 01: Taking control;
  • Chapter - 02: Conflict Management;
  • Chapter - 03: Crisis Management;
  • Chapter - 04: Dealing With Bullies;
  • Chapter - 05: Negative Feedback;
  • Chapter - 06: Fighting battles;
  • Chapter - 07: Power;
  • Chapter - 08: Managing adversity;
  • Chapter - 09: Knowing who to trust;
  • Chapter - 10: Stepping up;
• Section - 05: DAILY SKILLS
• • Chapter - 01: Reading;
  • Chapter - 02: Writing;
  • Chapter - 03: Presenting;
  • Chapter - 04: Storytelling;
  • Chapter - 05: Listening;
  • Chapter - 06: Doing Numbers;
  • Chapter - 07: Problem Solving;
  • Chapter - 08: Time Management;
  • Chapter - 09: Managing stress;
  • Chapter - 10: Using technology;
• Section - 06: ORGANIZATION SKILLS;
• • Chapter - 01: Making decisions;
  • Chapter - 02: Decision Making In Uncertainty;
  • Chapter - 03: Effective Meetings;
  • Chapter - 04: Managing Projects;
  • Chapter - 05: Setting goals;
  • Chapter - 06: Selling and persuading;
  • Chapter - 07: Managing Change;
  • Chapter - 08: Reorganizing;
  • Chapter - 09: Selecting your team;
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