The Leadership Skills Handbook: 50 Essential Skills You Need to be a Leader

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Winner of the 'New Manager' category at the CMI Management Book of the Year Awards http://yearbook.managers.org.uk/The Leadership Skills Handbook from best-selling author Jo Owen reveals the essential skills you need to be an effective leader. It shows you what works in practice, not in theory. Each skill is presented in concise, easy to follow format. The skills are about the real challenges real leaders have to master.Based on research from over a thousand leaders in the public, private and voluntary sectors, it identifies the practical skills to make you even more successful, and offers guidance on all key topics.This completely revised second edition of The Leadership Skills Handbook is about more than just technical skills, it is also about developing the people skills, behaviours and values you will need. Full of tips, exercises and practical wisdom, it will help you become a leader that people want to follow.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. vii)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• Part 1 Career skills (p. 5)
• 01 Understand yourself (p. 7)
• 02 Understand others (p. 10)
• 03 Understand how you affect others (p. 14)
• 04 Discover your rules of success (p. 19)
• 05 The leadership journey: Key principles (p. 21)
• 06 Managing your leadership journey: The map (p. 25)
• 07 Build your career (p. 28)
• 08 Careers versus careering: Avoiding the death stars (p. 32)
• 09 How not to get promoted (p. 36)
• 10 Running the leadership marathon (p. 38)
• Part 2 People skills (p. 41)
• 01 Delegating (p. 43)
• 02 Motivating (p. 47)
• 03 Selling (p. 55)
• 04 Coaching (p. 67)
• 05 Managing expectations (p. 72)
• 06 Managing upwards (p. 77)
• 07 Flattery (p. 82)
• 08 Managing professionals (p. 84)
• Part 3 Moment of truth skills (p. 87)
• 01 Learning to say no (p. 89)
• 02 Conflict management (p. 95)
• 03 Crisis management (p. 104)
• 04 Dealing with bullies (p. 108)
• 05 Negative feedback (p. 111)
• 06 Hearing feedback (p. 115)
• 07 Fighting battles (p. 119)
• 08 Power (p. 121)
• 09 Managing adversity (p. 124)
• Part 4 Technical skills (p. 127)
• 01 Reading (p. 129)
• 02 Writing (p. 132)
• 03 Presenting (p. 135)
• 04 Storytelling (p. 141)
• 05 Listening (p. 145)
• 06 Doing numbers (p. 149)
• 07 Problem solving (p. 152)
• 08 Decision making in uncertainty (p. 157)
• 09 Influencing decisions (p. 159)
• 10 Negotiations (p. 163)
• 11 Networking (p. 171)
• 12 Time management (p. 176)
• 13 Effective meetings (p. 179)
• 14 Projects (p. 181)
• 15 Managing budgets (p. 189)
• 16 Dealing with advertising (p. 192)
• 17 Managing change (p. 195)
• 18 Reorganizing (p. 199)
• 19 Creating a vision (p. 203)
• Part 5 Values and behaviours (p. 209)
• 01 Becoming a leader people want to follow (p. 211)
• 02 How not to be a good boss (p. 213)
• 03 Taking control (p. 216)
• 04 Working to win (p. 218)
• 05 Learning to be lucky (p. 220)
• 06 Managing stress (p. 222)
• 07 Positive leadership (p. 225)
• 08 Professional leadership (p. 228)
• 09 Etiquette (p. 230)
• 10 Honesty (p. 232)
• 11 Humility (p. 234)
• 12 Responsibility (p. 236)
• 13 Living the values (p. 238)
• 14 Ambition (p. 240)
• 15 Hard work (p. 242)
• 16 Learning and renewal (p. 244)
• 17 Learning to lead (p. 246)
• Further reading (p. 249)
• Index (p. 251)