LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Schools and Establishment leadership have become a priority in education policy agendas internationally. This area plays a key role in improving organisational outcomes by influencing the motivations and capacities of staff teams, as well as the climate and environment. Effective organisational leadership is essential to improve the efficiency and equity in Education at all levels.

As countries are seeking to adapt their education systems to the needs of contemporary society, expectations for educational establishments and organisational leaders are changing. Many countries have moved towards decentralisation, making establishments more autonomous in their decision making and holding them more accountable for results. At the same time, the requirement to improve overall student performance while serving more diverse student populations is adding pressure to use more evidence-based practices

The methodology of the training is based on a combination of three important elements:

• Provision of knowledge required (theory)
• Use of training tools, such as case studies, videos, games, animations & exercises (practice – hands on experience)
• Feedback/reflection (review)

• Understand why and how leadership skills are so critical to organisational success
• Identify how to use leadership skills to work more effectively with others, and be able to organise teams to work more effectively together
• To be able to apply effective leadership skills to everyday situations faced by leaders
• Demonstrate how to manage conflict and lead change
• Adapt ways to design the coordination, control, and performance measurement systems to manage an educational organization
• Verify how innovation and change can be facilitated through organisation design
• Understand how managers coordinate different functional areas and systems inside a school establishment and align them with the external environment to enhance overall performance
• Gain knowledge of strategic management tools and frameworks, and apply them to real contexts
• Process diverse managerial information to diagnose strategic issues, evaluate strategic alternatives, and formulate a coherent and actionable strategic plan