The Skills You Need eBook Shop

Our web content is free to view and to browse. We know that you, our readers, value this resource, and we have no plans to change what we do.

But we also know that there are times when you would like something more.

For example:

  • Sometimes you can’t be online, but you want to read about how you can improve your skills;
  • You want a way of bringing pages together in one place, to make it easier to cross-reference; or
  • You want to make notes about progress towards your skills-related goals.

In response to feedback, we have developed an extensive range of eBooks that combine some of our most popular content with new ideas and tips.

From this page, you can navigate to our subject-specific shop pages to browse our selection of information and workbooks, then buy and download to read at your leisure.


Our Best-Selling eBooks...

The Skills You Need Guide to Interpersonal Skills

The Skills You Need Guide to Interpersonal Skills

Are you serious about improving your Interpersonal Skills?

Our guide includes 5 eBooks:

  • Introduction to Communication Skills,learn the basics of better communication.
  • Advanced Communication Skills, take your communication skills to the next level.
  • Conflict Resolution and Mediation Workbook, with exercises to help you develop your skills.
  • Understanding and Developing Emotional Intelligence, which sets out the theory and practice of this most essential area of interpersonal skills.
  • The Skills You Need Interpersonal Skills Self-Assessment, a printable and offline version of one of our most popular tools.
Learn more about the Skills You Need Guide to Interpersonal Skills
$ 52.00

The Skills You Need Guide to Leadership

The Skills You Need Guide to Leadership

This five part guide is ideal for new and experienced leaders alike.

These eBooks will guide you from your first steps into leadership, through developing and becoming more confident in your leadership style, and learning to manage people and teams, to how to get things done.


Find out more about The Skills You Need Guide to Leadership
$ 52.00

The Skills You Need Guide to Numeracy

The Skills You Need Guide to Numeracy

This four-part guide takes you through the basics of numeracy from arithmetic to algebra, with stops in between at fractions, decimals, geometry and statistics.

Visit the Skills You Need Guide to numeracy page. $ 40.00

Whether you want to brush up on your numeracy basics, or help your children with their learning, these are the eBooks for you.

The Skills You Need Guide to Life

The Skills You Need Guide to Life

This two-part guide is an easy-to-read summary of the essential skills you need for a healthy mind and body.

The first eBook, Looking After Yourself, covers some of our most popular content and will help you to live a happier, healthier and more productive life. This edition contains new content setting out the most recent research on health, diet and nutrition, including its impact on mental health.

The second eBook, Living Well, Living Ethically, considers how you can live your best life all the time. It helps you to answer the question: how can I avoid having too many regrets about my life?

Visit the Guide to Life page. $ 25.00
The Skills You Need Guide to Personal Development

Personal Development

Learn how to set yourself effective personal goals and find the motivation you need to achieve them. This is the essence of personal development, a set of skills designed to help you reach your full potential, at work, in study and in your personal life.

The Skills You Need Guide to Personal Development eBook is ideal for anyone who wants to improve their skills and learning potential, and it is full of easy-to-follow, practical information. It is now in a new edition with additional content, including practical aspects of development.


Visit the Skills You Need Guide to Personal Development page. $ 13.00
The Skills You Need Guide to Personal and Romantic Relationships

Personal and Romantic Relationships

If you find personal relationships difficult, this may be the book you have been waiting for!

Even those who are highly skilled at personal interactions at work can struggle to translate their skills to their home environment. This book is designed to help you do just that: to take your existing interpersonal skills, understand them better, and use them effectively in your personal relationships.


Visit the Skills You Need Guide to Personal and Romantic Relationships page. $ 13.00
The Skills You Need Guide to Coaching and Mentoring

Coaching and Mentoring


Coaching and mentoring require some very specific skills, particularly focused on facilitating and enabling others, and building good relationships.

As the world of work changes, more and more of us are finding that we are expected to coach or mentor younger or more inexperienced colleagues.

The Skills You Need Guide to Coaching and Mentoring eBook is designed to help you to develop the necessary skills to do so.


Visit the Skills You Need Guide to Coaching and Mentoring. $ 13.00

The Skills You Need Guide for Students

The Skills You Need Guide for Students

Learn about the skills you need to succeed at school, college and university. Our four-part guide covers Becoming a Student, Study Skills, Writing a Dissertation or Thesis and Research Methods.

Visit the Skills You Need Guide for Students page. $ 40.00

Essential reading for students and teachers.

Jobs and Careers

The Skills You Need Guide to Jobs and Careers

The Skills You Need Guide to Jobs and Careers

This three-part guide brings together new editions of two older eBooks on getting a job and running your own business, adding a whole new eBook on managing your career as a whole. Drawing together both existing and new content, it will provide you with a coherent overview of all the skills you need to manage your career and navigate the choppy waters of the world of work.

Find out more about the Skills You Need Guide to Jobs and Careers. $ 30.00
The Skills You Need Guide to Stress and Stress Management

Stress and Stress Management

Learn more about the nature of stress and how you can effectively cope with stress in your life.

The second edition of the Skills You Need Guide to Stress and Stress Management is based on our popular stress, stress management and relaxation techniques content, including new and updated content since the publication of the first edition.

It covers all you need to know to help you through stressful periods in life: from understanding the nature of stress and identifying its triggers, through coping with stressful situations and learning how to relax.

Learn more about the Skills You Need Guide to Stress and Stress Management $ 13.00

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