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Informationen zum Autor Jo Owen is the only person to win the Chartered Management Institute Gold Medal three times for his best selling books which include How to Lead, Global Teams and The Mindset of Success. He has featured on CNN, Forbes, Fortune, Financial Times and many magazines and news media. Jo practices what he preaches as a leader. He is founder of Teach First, the UK's largest graduate recruiter and seven other NGOs with combined turnover above £100 million. He has started a bank from scratch and built businesses in Japan, America and Europe. He was a partner at Accenture and the MAC Group and started his career at Procter & Gamble in brand management. His career highlights include becoming the best nappy salesman in Birmingham, putting the blue speckle in Daz and getting sued for $12 billion, when a billion was worth something. He has also spent 20 years researching tribes from Mali to Mongolia, from the Arctic to Australia to Papua New Guinea and beyond to discover what businesses can learn from them about survival and success. Jo is in demand as a coach and keynote speaker and can be reached at jo@ilead.guru Klappentext Winner of the CMI Management Book of the Year Awards in the 2012/2013 New Manager category, 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, in crucial areas such as people skills, career skills, mindset skills, organization skills, personal values and behaviours. Each skill is presented in a concise, easy to follow format, with an accompanying framework to help you deploy it in your own life. The skills are about the real challenges real leaders have to master, and as you observe and record real-life examples of skills in action, you will be developing your own unique formula for success in the context that matters to you. Based on research from over a thousand leaders throughout the world at all levels 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 fourth edition of The Leadership Skills Handbook includes brand new content on some of the most challenging skills that successful leaders need to master through three new sections on financial skills (including budgeting, costs, pricing and creating an investment case), political skills (including influencing, negotiating, networking and partnering) and the art of strategy (including strategic models, understanding the customer, marketing, pricing and advertising). This indispensable guidance will boost your confidence, technical abilities and give you the edge on your peers.Allows you to create your own personalized formula for success, based on a combination of what works best for both the individual reader's career and their company Zusammenfassung Learn the 90 essential skills you need to be an effective leader with this handbook from best-selling author Jo Owen. Inhaltsverzeichnis ** Chapter - 21: Understand Yourself; ** Chapter - 22: Understand Others; ** Chapter - 23: Understand How You Affect Others; ** Chapter - 24: Delegating; ** Chapter - 25: Motivating; ** Chapter - 26: Coaching; ** Chapter - 27: Valuing Others: Cultural Intelligence; ** Chapter - 28: Managing Expectations; ** Chapter - 29: Managing Performance; ** Chapter - 30: Managing Professionals; * Section - FOUR: Moment Of Truth Skills; ** Chapter - 31: Taking Control; ** Chapter - 32: Conflict Management; ** Chapter - 33: Crisis Management; * Section - THREE: People Skills; ** Chapter - 20: Staying Employable; ** Chapter - 19: Running The Leadership Marathon; ** Chapter - 18: Coach Yourself To Success; ** Chapter - 17: Knowing When To Move On; ** Chapter - 16: How Not To Get Promoted; ** Chapter - 15: Careers Versus ...
