The Leadership Skills Handbook - Jo Owen

The Leadership Skills Handbook

100 Essential Skills You Need to Be A Leader

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2024 | 6th Revised edition
Kogan Page Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-3986-1579-3 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
Master the essential skills that have the power to unlock your leadership effectiveness with the updated handbook from award-winning author, Jo Owen.
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.

Jo Owen is a best-selling and multi-award-winning leadership author, keynote speaker and social entrepreneur. He is a founder of eight charities, including the UK's largest graduate recruiter Teach First. His books The Mindset of Success, Myths of Leadership and Management Stripped Bare, also published by Kogan Page, have been translated into eight different languages. Jo Owen is the first person to win the Chartered Institute of Management Gold Award four times for four of his books. He is based in London UK.

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;
Chapter - 10: Developing your team;


Section - 07: POLITICAL SKILLS;


Chapter - 01: Learning to say 'no';
Chapter - 02: The partnership principle;
Chapter - 03: Negotiations;
Chapter - 04: Networks;
Chapter - 05: Manage upwards;
Chapter - 06: Flattery;


Section - 08: FINANCIAL SKILLS;


Chapter - 01: Managing budgets;
Chapter - 02: Negotiating budgets;
Chapter - 03: Reviewing budgets;
Chapter - 04: Understand the nature of your costs;
Chapter - 05: Cutting costs;
Chapter - 06: Balanced scorecard;
Chapter - 07: Making an investment case;
Chapter - 08: Understand your business drivers;
Chapter - 09: Manage pricing;
Chapter - 10: Decoding CAPM;


Section - 09: THE ART OF STRATEGY;


Chapter - 01: Creating a vision;
Chapter - 02: Classical strategy;
Chapter - 03: Post-modern strategy;
Chapter - 04: Strategic discussions;
Chapter - 05: Competitive strategy;
Chapter - 06: Understanding the customer;
Chapter - 07: Marketing strategy;
Chapter - 08: Pricing strategy;
Chapter - 09: Advertising;
Chapter - 10: The advertising brief;


Section - 10: THE 21ST CENTURY;


Chapter - 01: Why leadership is different in 21st century: show evolution of leadership from 19th and 20th centuries;
Chapter - 02: Leading without power;
Chapter - 03: Influencing people;
Chapter - 04: Achieving influence and power;
Chapter - 05: Influencing decisions;
Chapter - 06: People: building commitment, not compliance;
Chapter - 07: Strategy as a process, not a presentation;
Chapter - 08: Marketing: from products to people;
Chapter - 09: Finance: from tangible to intangible;
Chapter - 10: The power of stories: self, projects, brands and firms;
Chapter - 11: Career is a verb, not a noun;

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft Wirtschaft
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 1-3986-1579-X / 139861579X
ISBN-13 978-1-3986-1579-3 / 9781398615793
Zustand Neuware
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