Top Ten Leadership Skills – Book 2

This book concentrates on leadership skills as being transformational and inspirational in nature. This is not to say that managers do not have these skills and indeed I am not making that distinction. Managers are often thought of in terms of following procedure and ‘getting the job done’ with less concern for staff development and needs. But, as far as this book goes the term ‘leader’ also refers to the ‘manager’. (For a more detailed explanation of managers vs. leaders please see the book ‘The Skills, Models and Philosophies of Leadership)

1. Know Yourself
   1. Emotional Intelligence
   2. Self awareness
   3. Social Skills
2. Know your Team
   1. What is a team?
   2. Team Formation
   3. Team Management and Roles
   4. Remote Working
3. Manage Team Performance
   1. Setting team goals and direction
   2. Managing difficulties and poor performance
   3. Dysfunctional teams
   4. Evaluating success
   5. Delegation and empowerment
   6. Feedback and appraisal
4. Provide vision & Direction
   1. What Should Vision Achieve?
   2. Setting Out Your Vision & Direction
5. Transformational Leadership
   1. Bennis and Nanus Transformational Leaders
   2. Bernard Bass Model of Transactional and Transformational Leaders
   3. Burns Model of Transactional and Transformational Leaders
   4. Weber’s 3 Types of Leader
   5. Schein Culture Change and Transformation
   6. X & Y Theory – Mcgregor (1960)
6. Conclusions / Summary
7. References