Educational Leadership and Management

Head teacher is the head of an institution. His duties are multi-dimensional such as to enforce governmental policies, train the new generation, hold meeting with parents, teaching work from teachers, to solve teaching, non teaching problems. All people respect him and he takes all of them with him. One problem the leader has to face is that someone subordinate has more qualification than him, but despite the fact he has to run the institution. For these serious tasks he has some fundamental abilities.

Energy

Mental and physical energy is important for leader. He must be hard worker, and great degree of patience.

Empathy

He must have a great empathy for his fellow colleagues. Shares their pain.

Zeal building

He should instill zeal and zest in his staff and students by their brain storming.

Confidence

The essential quality of a leader is his confidence of his self and work.

Leader must lead

Leader must lead and know the functions of leadership.

Realistic

Leader should be realistic rather idealist regarding work, difficulties and problems of his fellows.

Emotional stability

He must avoid anger and does not cross the limits of his powers. Show a fine behavior while dealing with subordinates.

Knowledge of human relation

He must know human relations. He should understand the views of his friends and opponents with foresightedness. He must establish fine relations. Sincerity and work would be the standard instead of personal biases.

Communicative skills

He has communicative skills such as inter-personal, short groups, large group, pubic communication, mass communication etc.

Professional and technical abilities

He must have knowledge of planning, organization, directing and controlling.

Personal motivation and enthusiasm

He must possess motivation, desire, perseverance, zeal. It also generates all these forceful passions in the staff. Without his spiritual reinforcement no great task can be achieved.

Build team spirit

He can inject team work spirit in his subordinates and get more performance from their part and use this team spirit for the institution.

Problem solving

He must solve the problems of his fellows and have the skill of decision making.

Trust

He is trust worthy and staff can trust him, and mutual trust may be build.

Initiative

Initiative is the great ability of a teacher, without taking risk, cannot get great achievement.

Organizational development

He must possess organizational development abilities and know how to run the organization.

Supervision ability

Educational manager has educational and organizational abilities to supervise the work of other staff for best outcomes.

Managing change

In this modern era changes are happening in every field. New trends are introducing in education field. He must know how to make adaptation with these changes and use this change positively in the benefit of institution.

Technology

A leader must know the new technologies, techniques to use them in his field to attain the required standards and use the technology of audio visual aids.

Ability of a research work

When leader does his work consistently, he has to face new dimension. He should do some research about them, and use the results in his management. He must know the new developments in his own field and use this research for advancement.

Leadership ethics

Every field has some ethical values. Leadership must know them. These ethics may be broad-mindedness, sympathetic, observing social and religious values.

Strong will

He must possess strong will-power, without any fear from difficulties. Face the problems with great courage and overcome the problem with his team.

Judgment and analysis

Leader must know about circumstances, make analysis and after evaluating them devise pragmatic policies.

Fairness

The most vital and fundamental quality is leader’s fairness and sincerity with his team, organization and mission. Being a leader of a specific organization, profession and community, a leader must be fair with all of them.

Decisiveness

Decisiveness is an essential quality of a leader. To make in time decision is very important for a leaders.

Dependability

No person can do all works alone. He has to develop a circle of trust worthy people, who can give him best counseling which make him successful.

Fact full

He can use facts and techniques in time to solve problems.

Integrity and endurance

Leader must be possessed strong nerves with stable behavior, having tolerance, courage. He gets through the difficulties with a smile.

Courage and humor

Leader must have courage, dearness, boldness and sense of humor. The people who always make complaint about difficulties can never be a leader.

Unselfishness

Leader should not be a selfish person, greedy and insincere. He must be dignified and makes his own way.

Loyalty

He has a strong relation of faith with his country, nation, organization and work.

Visionary

Leader must be visionary, foresightedness, prudence and planning.

Man of principles

Leader should be a man of principles and confine himself within rules and regulation. He demonstrates equal behavior and justice with people of his community.

Flexibility

Leader should have an element of flexibility because rigidness cannot acquire success.

Accessibility

Leader should be approachable and accessible without accessibility a lit of problem can be developed. He cannot get popularity among his fellows.

God fearing

Leader takes decision by keeping in view that God is seeing all his actions. His decisions do not base on biases. He must believe on justice.

Democratic attitude

He can get counsel from others, respect their opinion and proceeds forward along with them and create a culture of dialogue.

Personality

His personality should be fine and he would be able to maintain amicable relations with others. he possesses broad-mindedness, courtesy and listens problems with sympathy. His personality must be attractive.