The Leadership Skills Handbook: 50 Essential Skills You Need to be a Leader, 3rd Edition

  • 2h 42m
  • Jo Owen
  • Kogan Page
  • 2014

While most leadership books try to answer the question "what is good leadership?" this book asks "how can people learn to lead?"

The Leadership Skills Handbook reflects the collective knowledge, wisdom and experience of thousands of leaders who have contributed through surveys and interviews. It is based on research that identifies the five different groups of skills that leaders must have -- career skills, people skills, moment of truth skills, technical skills and values and behaviors.

It covers some of the common challenges emerging leaders have expressed, such as: how to really take control; how to deal with politics of the organization; how to manage budgets when times are tough; how to achieve what's necessary with limited time and money and how to deal with stress.

This new edition is updated with a new section on the mindset of success, as well as the latest thinking on resilience, collaboration and enterprising. Full of tips, exercises and advice, The Leadership Skills Handbook explains how to become a leader that people want to follow.

About the Author

Jo Owen practices what he preaches as a leader. He has worked with over 80 of the best, and a couple of the worst, organisations in the world in a career which has crossed all the major continents and most industry sectors. He is a serial entrepreneur and founder of several successful start ups, including Teach First which is now one of the top graduate recruiters in the UK.

His leadership research is drawn from interviews and surveys with over 2000 managers at all levels, as well as research with traditional societies such as Mongol nomads, Saami reindeer herders, Laikipia in Kenya, Papua New Guinean tribes and even with French bureaucrats in The French Prime Minister's office and beyond in a study conducted with Oxford University.

He has two new books coming out this year (Power at Work and Tribal Business School). He has presented two TV series as a trouble shooter in challenging schools.

In this Book

  • Positive Leadership
  • Responsibility
  • High Aspirations
  • Have Courage
  • Be Adaptable
  • Learn to be Lucky
  • Managing Stress
  • Honesty
  • Self-Awareness
  • Working to Win
  • Understand Yourself
  • Understand Others
  • Understand How You Affect Others
  • Discover Your Rules of Success
  • The Leadership Journey: Key Principles
  • Managing Your Leadership Journey: The Map
  • Build Your Career
  • Careers Versus Careering: Avoiding the Death Stars
  • How not to Get Promoted
  • Running the Leadership Marathon
  • Delegating
  • Motivating
  • Selling
  • Coaching
  • Managing Expectations
  • Managing Upwards
  • Flattery
  • Managing Professionals
  • Learning to Say No
  • Conflict Management
  • Crisis Management
  • Dealing with Bullies
  • Negative Feedback
  • Hearing Feedback
  • Fighting Battles
  • Power
  • Managing Adversity
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Presenting
  • Storytelling
  • Listening
  • Doing Numbers
  • Problem Solving
  • Time Management
  • Decision Making in Uncertainty
  • Influencing Decisions
  • Negotiations
  • Networking
  • Effective Meetings
  • Projects
  • Managing Budgets
  • Dealing with Advertising
  • Managing Change
  • Reorganizing
  • Creating a Vision
  • Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow
  • How not to be a Good Boss
  • Taking Control
  • Professional Leadership
  • Etiquette
  • Living the Values
  • Ambition
  • Hard Work
  • Learning to Lead
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