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Develop Your Leadership Skills

Fast, Effective Ways to Become a Leader People Want to Follow
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Develop Your Leadership Skills by John Adair is a comprehensive guide designed to boost confidence, inspire, and support readers on their journey to becoming exemplary leaders. As a world-renowned expert, Adair delves into recognising and enhancing individual leadership qualities, gaining personal authority, and mastering essential leadership functions such as planning, communicating and motivating. This updated 5th edition includes practical exercises, useful templates, and tips to help readers develop effective leadership skills within a structured framework.
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Develop your leadership skills and find out how to become a leader people want to work with in this essential pocket guide by world leading leadership expert John Adair.

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This indispensable guide from leadership guru John Adair will boost your confidence levels, inspire you, and help you on your journey to becoming a leader of excellence.

Acknowledged as a world expert, John Adair offers stimulating insights into recognising and developing individual leadership qualities, acquiring personal authority and, most importantly, mastering core leadership functions such as planning, communicating, and motivating. This 5th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates, and top tips to improve or develop your leadership skills. This guide distils the essence of John Adair's teaching and provides a framework for becoming an effective leader.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781398606173

Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 July 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Kogan Page Ltd

Edition: 5th Revised edition

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 165g

Pages: 112

About the Author

John Adair is acknowledged internationally as an authority on leadership, based in Guildford, UK. The world's first Professor of Leadership Studies, he advises organizations and has received the Lifetime Achievement in Leadership Award. He is the author of the bestselling classics Not Bosses But Leaders, The John Adair Lexicon of Leadership and The Inspirational Leader, all published by Kogan Page.

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