This is a goldmine of ideas, advice and techniques from one of the world’s leading writers on management and leadership. It brings together all of John Adair’s thinking on leadership, teambuilding, creativity and innovation, problem-solving, motivation, communication and time-management. Full of practical guidance experience and insight, it’s packed with a large number of charts, diagrams and forms. This is a repackaged and updated edition of the best-selling John Adair Handbook.

Everything You Need to Lead Your Team... in An Instant. John Adair’s Greatest Ideas for Effective Leadership is full of accessible advice and practical exercises from one of the world’s best –known and most sought-after authorities on leadership and management. Inside you will find: 9 Greatest Ideas for Leadership Skills 3 Greatest Ideas for Setting and Achieving You Objectives 6 Greatest Ideas for Teambuilding 4 Greatest Ideas for Leadership Qualities 8 Greatest Ideas for Managing Your Time ...and 70 other fantastic ideas, tips, and tricks that will give you the confidence, answers, and inspiration you need to succeed.

Beginning with an exploration of leadership and moving on to his seven steps to growing leaders, Adair provides unique insight into the heart of leadership, helping readers discover skills in themselves and in those around them.

This book is a practical master-class in how to manage both yourself and others to provide a team that is motivated, creative and high-performing. Internationally recognised as a writer, teacher and consultant, Professor John Adair has written 27 books and numerous articles on leadership and management development: this is the distillation of a career's thought and practice into one book.

The Inspirational Leader argues that leaders are not born but made. Taking the form of conversations between a young chief executive and the author, it explores the nature and practice of leadership. Each aspect of leadership is studied and discussed, so that the key skills are revealed for anyone to adopt and use to inspire and encourage others. Thought-provoking and accessible, it will help you to develop the necessary charisma and qualities to make you an inspiring leader. Leaders are not a particular type of person, and the valuable advice presented in this book can help anyone realize their full potential.

Few things are more important than the quality and credibility of leaders, as they play a vital role in every aspect of our modern lives. Yet strong leadership is a difficult skill to master. Good leaders must learn not only to manage, analyse and appraise, but also to encourage, improve and inspire. Here, John Adair, the celebrated expert on leadership training, shows how Confucian philosophy can help you become a better leader. He demonstrates how, far from merely being interesting ideas from centuries ago, Confucius's sayings, or Analects, will help you to develop the confidence, characteristics and skills you need to be the best leader you can be.

A strategic leader is essentially the leader of any organization and someone who has to steer the company in times of change, whilst motivating and inspiring their team. Strategic Leadership from the renowned leadership expert John Adair encourages leaders to focus on tomorrow rather than yesterday. It explores the nature and origin of strategic leadership, transferable skills and the art of inspiring others. It then describes the role itself and broad functions of that role such as building and maintaining a team, achieving a common task and motivating and developing the individual. It moves on to assess the skills you need to be effective, and the seven generic functions that make up the role of strategic leader which include providing direction, strategic thinking and planning, building partnerships and developing tomorrow's leaders. Full of checklists, summaries and historical examples, Strategic Leadership will encourage you to ask the right questions whilst defining the role and skills of a strategic leader.

This pioneering work from leadership expert John Adair has transformed our understanding of how leadership works and how executives can become business leaders. Accessible guidance on exactly what you need to become a leader is presented in the form of a dialogue with a young business executive, and each fundamental aspect of leadership is discussed including the qualities of leadership, leadership styles, leadership functions, the difference between leadership and management, and strategic leadership. Not Bosses But Leaders is a timeless work of great vision with a solid practical core. Thought provoking and definitive, it springs from the day-to-day realities of management, and will enable you to greatly improve your leadership skills. It is the study of what a leader actually has to do.

Everything You Need to Communicate Effectively...in an Instant John Adair’s 100 Greatest Ideas for Brilliant Communication is all you need to master the skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading, from one of the world’s best-known and moist sought-after authorities on leadership and management. Inside you will find: 10 Greatest Ideas for Giving Presentations 12 Greatest Ideas for Leading Effective Meetings 5 Greatest Ideas for Delighting Your Customers 24 Greatest Ideas for Effective Speaking 9 Greatest Ideas for Clear Writing ...and 40 other fantastic ideas, tips and tricks that will give you the confidence, answers, and inspiration you need to succeed.

Management through leadership is the message of this book. Leadership is the crux of successful management and Action Centered Leader inspires others by words and examples. The book covers in depth the main topics involved in what you need to do to be a leader. It emphasizes on the simple actions that a leader must take to achieve the task, build the team and develop the individual.