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The Skills You Need Guide to Leadership
This five-part guide, now in a new edition, 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 understanding your organisation, developing strategy, and getting things done.
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Buy the complete package of all 5 eBooks for the price of 4 (compared to buying the titles separately).
Your purchase includes:
- Learning to Lead: Understanding leadership and developing your leadership style.
- Personal Leadership Skills: Developing the skills you need to lead.
- Leading and Managing Others: Developing the skills you need to lead people and teams.
- Business Strategy and Analysis: Developing the skills you need to understand and position your business.
- Making It Happen: Project and change management skills for leaders.
$ 13.00
Learning to Lead:
Understanding leadership and developing your leadership style
If you are starting your first leadership role, then this eBook will be invaluable to you. It takes you through theories of leadership, explaining the difference between leadership and management, and introduces the concept of leadership styles.
Learning to Lead provides a quiz to help you work out your leadership style, then offers a six-step programme for development, including some essential hints for strengthening each individual style.
This book, now in a new edition, is a step-by-step guide to learning to lead. It is the first in a series of five, and might well be considered essential reading for new leaders.
Published by: Skills You Need Limited. May 2024.
ISBN: 978-1-911084-46-4
$ 13.00
Personal Leadership Skills:
Developing the skills you need to lead
The third edition of this eBook takes you through some of the skills that are considered most important for leaders, and which you have least opportunity to develop before taking up a leadership position. This eBook focuses very much on you, rather than your ability to manage others, which is covered in the third eBook in this series.
The eBook begins by considering the importance of understanding and managing your emotions, and how you can do this. It considers the nature of self-confidence and motivation, on the grounds that it is impossible to motivate others effectively without understanding your own motivation. It then moves into other skills such as organisation, time management, strategic thinking, creative thinking and innovation.
Whatever your current skill-set, you'll find lots here to help improve your personal skills.
Published by: Skills You Need Limited. May 2024.
ISBN: 978-1-911084-47-1
$ 13.00
Leading and Managing Others:
Developing the skills you need to lead people and teams
This third eBook in our series on leadership focuses on the skills required to lead people and teams. It describes the skills needed to build a team, then moves on to discuss how to delegate, manage and oversee work, before considering how to provide feedback, coach and manage performance. It also covers how to motivate, influence and persuade others.
This eBook therefore covers both the formal and informal aspects of leadership and management. It recognises that new managers and leaders are not necessarily familiar with even the ‘small skills’ of leadership, such as giving effective feedback, and that everyone can learn new skills.
This eBook is designed for anyone embarking on their first management post or wondering what skills to develop to move up the ladder.
Published by: Skills You Need Limited. May 2024.
ISBN: 978-1-911084-48-8
$ 13.00
Business Strategy and Analysis:
Developing the skills you need to understand and position your business
Increasingly, leaders need to be able to draw on data to analyse their business and its environment to support strategy development and decision-making.
This eBook was previously published separately but has now been brought into The Skills You Need Guide to Leadership in recognition of the changing nature of leadership. It is designed as a simple, practical guide to business analysis, to provide leaders with the tools they need to understand their business, market and environment, including their competitors.
The eBook provides tools and techniques, and even dips into the idea of game theory to help you understand your competitors’ and customers’ behaviour. This will enable you to work out where you can add real value for your customers, and therefore develop a sustainable competitive advantage. This, and this alone, will enable you to succeed in business in the longer term.
Published by: Skills You Need Limited. May 2024.
ISBN: 978-1-911084-49-5
$ 13.00
Making It Happen:
Project and change management skills for leaders
This fifth instalment in our leadership series discusses how leaders can support change management programmes and ‘make things happen’ in their organisation.
It provides a comprehensive but succinct summary of change management theory, to enable both new and more experienced leaders to set their work in the context of organisational development thinking over the last twenty years or more. It also contains content on the vital leadership skill of setting and communicating a compelling vision for the organisation.
Don’t be fooled into thinking this is just another project management textbook: this book may show the nuts and bolts of project management, but it is from a leader’s perspective. It shows new leaders how to work out what is really going on in their projects and programmes, and what questions to ask to make sure they understand and will be effective project sponsors and leaders.
Published by: Skills You Need Limited. May 2024.
ISBN: 978-1-911084-50-1
Some of our other eBooks:
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.
$ 30.00
The Skills You Need Guide to Interpersonal Skills
Our interpersonal skills guide covers communication skills, conflict resolution and emotional intelligence.
Essential reading for anybody who wants to enjoy better interpersonal relationships at work, at home and socially.
$ 52.00
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.
$ 13.00
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