Develop Your Leadership Skills

Fast, Effective Ways to Become a Leader People Want to Follow

New Edition This book

• Provides a full overview of how to grow as a leader and encourages you to find greatness in others • Is from the bestselling author and world renowned leadership expert John Adair, with over 500,000 books sold worldwide and translations into 25 languages • Is part of the bestselling Creating Success series, which has sold over 1.5 million copies and contains practical advice on essential work skills to help you develop your career • New to this edition: revised case studies throughout and summaries of the latest leadership thinking

Description

This indispensable guide from leadership guru John Adair, will boost your confidence levels, inspire you and help you on your journey to becoming a leader of excellence.

Acknowledged as a world expert, John Adair offers stimulating insights into recognizing and developing individual leadership qualities, acquiring personal authority and, most importantly, mastering core leadership functions such as planning, communicating and motivating. This 5th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates, and top tips to improve or develop your leadership skills, this guide distils the essence of John Adair's teaching and provides a framework for becoming an effective leader.

The Creating Success series of books...

Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this millionselling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.

Author Information

John Adair is acknowledged internationally as an authority on leadership, based in Guildford, UK. The world's first Professor of Leadership Studies, he advises organizations and has received the Lifetime Achievement in Leadership Award. He is the author of the bestselling classics Not Bosses But Leaders, The John Adair Lexicon of Leadership and The Inspirational Leader, all published by Kogan Page. Edition: 5 Date: 03/07/2022 Price: £12.99 Paperback: 9781398606173 Ebook: 9781398606272 Pages: 112 Format (mm): 211x140 Product Category: General Subject: Leadership

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 What you have to be 2 What you have to know 3 What you need to do 4 How to turn the core leadership functions into skills 5 How to develop yourself as a leader 6 How to lead at the strategic level 7 How to grow leaders in your organization 8 Appendix 9 Further reading