The Leadership Skills Handbook: 50 Essential Skills you Need to Be a Leader, Second Edition

  • 2h 40m
  • Jo Owen
  • Kogan Page
  • 2012

The Leadership Skills Handbook from bestselling author Jo Owen draws upon his research with over a thousand leaders and reveals the essential skills needed to lead successfully. While most leadership books try to answer the question 'what is good leadership?' this book asks 'how can people learn to lead?'

This new edition covers every aspect of leadership from technical skills and career skills, to people skills and personal values. It touches on:

  • delegating and motivating
  • conflict management
  • crisis management and problem solving
  • negotiating
  • coaching

Full of exercises and practical wisdom, The Leadership Skills Handbook explains how to become a leader that people want to follow.

About the Author

Jo Owen has worked for some of the best companies in the world, including Accenture, Apple, Barclays, Merrill Lynch and Procter & Gamble. He is the bestselling business author of books such as How to Sell, How to Lead and How to Manage. He is also a social entrepreneur working with inner-city schools and ex-convicts in the UK. For his most recent project, he helped corporate executives to share wisdom with tribal leaders from some of the world’s most remote cultures.

In this Book

  • 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
  • Decision Making in Uncertainty
  • Influencing Decisions
  • Negotiations
  • Networking
  • Time Management
  • 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
  • Working to Win
  • Learning to be Lucky
  • Managing Stress
  • Positive Leadership
  • Professional Leadership
  • Etiquette
  • Honesty
  • Humility
  • Responsibility
  • Living the Values
  • Ambition
  • Hard Work
  • Learning and Renewal
  • Learning to Lead
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