The leadership skills handbook : 100 essential skills you need to be a leader

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 . Cover 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 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 Handboo k 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 .