The Leadership Skills Handbook: 100 Essential Skills You Need to Be A Leader

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
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