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	Develop Your Leadership Skills, 2/E by John Adair
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Description:

Develop Your Leadership Skills is one of john Adair’s most accessible titles on leadership. Full of exercises and checklists, it will boost your confidence levels and guide and inspire anyone on their journey to becoming a leader of excellence. It includes valuable guidance on:

• the essential qualities of leadership

• how to acquire personal authority

• mastering key skills such as planning, briefing and organizing

• developing yourself as a leader

• how to be a strategic leader

• how to develop leaders in your organization

Full of stimulating insights, Develop Your Leadership Skills distils the essence of john Adair’s teaching to provide a framework for becoming a successful leader.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: What you have to be • Some essential qualities • Generic leadership traits

Chapter 2: What you have to know

Chapter 3: What you need to do • Task need • Team maintenance need • Individual needs • The three circles interact • Towards the functional approach to leadership • Your role as leader • Leadership: personal reminder

Chapter 4: How to turn the core leadership functions into skills • Defining the task • Planning • Briefing • Controlling • Evaluating • Motivating • Organizing • Providing an example

Chapter 5: How to develop yourself as a leader • Be prepared • Be proactive • Be reflective

Chapter 6: How to lead at the strategic level • The functions of a strategic leader • The importance of practical wisdom • Leadership for desirable change

Chapter 7: How to grow leaders in your organization • Principle one: develop a strategy for leadership development • Principle two: selection • Principle three: training for leadership • Principle four: career development • Principle five: line managers as leadership developers • Principle six: culture • Principle seven: the chief executive • Finding greatness in people

Appendix: A leadership checklist

Further reading

Index ISBN - 9780749467005

Pages : 88