How well you lead the team to achieve its objectives and goals ultimately defines leadership. The simplicity and quality of the goals you set for your audience also define your leadership.
However, being a leader is not easy. A leader is not someone who tries to please everyone along the way. A leader has the strength and determination to make difficult decisions, even if they affect his followers, as long as they are in the best interests of his followers.
Academic leadership plays a vital role because it ensures student growth and institution development with a special focus on providing a favourable environment. This type of leadership has a significant impact on students. It has the potential to inspire and push children to study more, pursue further education, and succeed. However, poor academic leadership by teachers and school administrators can have the opposite impact, discouraging students from learning and leading to educational failure.
Attributes of a good academic leader:
- Confidence
- Clarity of mind
- Ethics
- Motivation
- Resilience
We’ve just touched on a few of the many social and work attributes that academic leaders must possess. All that remains is for you to put these concepts into action in your life. The interconnectedness of all of these characteristics for developing as an academic leader is the key that has to be explored further to enable education to achieve the diversity and inclusivity goals that it sets for itself.
