Leadership is the ability to create an environment where everyone knows what contribution is expected and feels totally committed to doing a great job.Leadership is an essential skill for all successful managers to learn and practise regularly.

This book explains the key techniques leaders use to release their own and their team’s full potential. It shows you how to think and take action with a leadership approach and to look at yourself and the world around you with a leadership focus.

Leadership is the ability to create an environment where everyone knows what contribution is expected and feels totally committed to doing a great job.Leadership is an essential skill for all successful managers to learn and practise regularly.

This book explains the key techniques leaders use to release their own and their team’s full potential. It shows you how to think and take action with a leadership approach and to look at yourself and the world around you with a leadership focus.

Practical advice is given to help you to develop the leadership aspects of your own role and to encourage leadership and initiative from everyone in your team. From taking up a leadership role to leading with confidence in difficult situations, this book prepares you step-by-step for all the challenges leaders face.

The book is packed with advice to held you direct your energy towards building essential relationshios and achieving the most important results that add value to your organization and identify you as a successful leader of people.

Introduction

CHAPTER 1

Understanding leadership

Defining the challenge

Leading from within

Leading through vision

Growing with your role

CHAPTER 2

Taking up your

leadership role

Preparing to lead

Focusing your energy

Working at relationships

Usin9 competences

Providin9 feedback

Learning from feedback

Developin9 yourself

Balancin9 work and life

Inspirin9 and. encouragin9

CHAPTER 3

Leading through challenges

Focusing on the future

Enabling change

Energizing the team

Leading difficult people

Balancing targets

Improving confidence

Creating networks

Learning from entrepreneurs

CHAPTER 4

Developing leaders

Investing in the future

Coaching for success

Adopting new

leadership patterns

Index

Acknowledgements