Speaker Presentations from Amity School Leadership Summit 2019

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TOPIC
SUB HEADING
Academic
Leadership
Professor Arun Patil
President/Vice Chancellor
Amity University Rajasthan
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"Leadership is a function of knowing
yourself, having a vision that is well
communicated, building trust among
colleagues, and taking effective action to
realise your own leadership potential."
- Prof. Warren Bennis

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Educational/Academic Leadership
“Academic leadership is a leadership that includes such roles as
creating vision and mission based on science and research data for
the organisation, setting up creative ideas, doing and providing
teamwork.”
“Educational leadership is the process of enlisting and guiding the
talents and energies of teachers, students and parents toward
achieving common educational goals.”

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Leaders Perform Several Roles…
 Role model
 Visionary
 Motivator
 Coach
 Change agent

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Leaders and Not Managers…
The best leaders are Inspiring visionaries, with flair and
attractive personalities.
They are concerned about substance and people, always aiming
to take advantage of new opportunities.
They are masters in the art of emotional intelligence and they
apply it in order to get the best out of each member of the
team.

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Three Lenses of Academic Leadership
How can you achieve those skills?

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School Leaders: Professional Practices
LEADING TEACHING AND LEARNING
DEVELOPING SELF AND OTHERS
LEADING IMPOWERMENT, AND CHANGE
LEADING THE MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOL
ENGAGING AND WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY

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Leadership Requirements
• Vision and values
• Knowledge and understanding
• Personal qualities, social and interpersonal skills
can you achieve those skills?

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Leadership Emphasis
• Operational
• Relational
• Strategic
• Systemic

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Academic Leadership: Changing Paradigm
What Students Want?

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Students’ Perspective: Engage Me…

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Leadership Traits
• Active, Energetic Approach
• Adaptable to situation
• Alert to social environment
• Ambitious and achievement oriented
• Assertive
• Cooperative
• Decisive
• Dependable
• Dominant (desire to influence others)
• Energetic (high activity level)
• Persistent
• Self confident
• Tolerant of stress
• Willing to assume responsibility

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Communication is the Key
Good leaders = Good communicators

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“Communication is the single most important
leadership skill.”
-Lin Bothwell, The Art of Leadership

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80-90% of the competencies
that distinguish star leaders
are built on emotional
intelligence (or EI).

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Four Challenges Leaders Always Face
1. To be respected and to be liked;
2. Balancing the needs of the organisation and the needs of
people;
3. Staying motivated;
4. Maintaining focus.
Mark Sanborn, “Developing Leaders in Business and in Life”

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External Challenges
 Public criticism;
 Outbreaks of others' interpersonal issues;
 Crises and disasters;
 Opposition and/or hostility from powerful forces;
 A financial or political bonus/windfall;
 Collaboration;

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How To Cope With External Challenges
 Be proactive;
 Be creative;
 Face conflict directly;
 Always look for common ground;
 Retain your objectivity;
 Look for opportunities for collaboration.

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Internal Challenges
While leadership presents each of us the opportunity to
demonstrate the best of what we are, it also exposes our
limitations…

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Internal Challenges (contd..)
• Insecurity
• Defensiveness/Self-protectiveness
• Lack of certainty/decisiveness
• Inability to be direct when there's a problem
• Impatience - with others and with situations

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How To Cope With Internal Challenges
 Listen (always)
 Ask for 360 degree feedback and use it
 Keep your eyes open.. (look what is happening around)
 Seek help for internal challenges

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Uncertainty: What Can You Do? (Dan Rockwell)
 Reduce uncertainty by applying strategies and making decisions;
 Aim to make a positive difference (Don’t simply survive);
 Pull with (not against)… (if you can’t pull with, jump ship, now);
 Break challenges and problems into small pieces;
 Learn as you go (and grow)..
 Focus on things within your power, on positive behaviours and less on
speculations;
 Connect with others who faced similar uncertainties and challenges..

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Every organisation (and individual) can have different leadership
framework customised to..
 Needs
 Vision
 Goals
 etc..

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21st Century Leadership Framework
SYSTEM
INFORMATION
Collaborative
Politically
Astute
Systems
Thinker
Tech
Literate
Confident
and
Courageous
Energetic
Visionary
ResilientOutward
Facing

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The 8-Step Process for Leading Change
Source: John Kotter: Kotter International

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Success Story: School Improvement at Scale
From 2008 to 2012, the
Western Metropolitan Region
(WMR) of the Department of
Education and Early
Childhood Development,
Victoria (DEECD), Australia,
encompassing 142 schools
with 77,500 students
achieved significant gains in
student outcomes.
OECD- Directorate for Education and Skills Innovative
Learning Environments (ILE)

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Success Story: Global Recognition
The Hon’ble Chancellor of Amity University
Rajasthan, Jaipur Dr. Aseem Chauhan, has been
conferred with the Honorary Citizenship of the
Ancient city of Olympia in Ilida (where the
Olympic Games originated), a high honor by
the Greek Government for his significant
contribution to Global Education.
Amity University Dubai campus has recently
been conferred the “Best Campus” award by
Forbes Higher Education Award 2019 held at
Dubai. UAE. The award was received by Dr. Atul
Chauhan, Chancellor, Amity University.

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Success Story: Global Recognition

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Success Story: Institution as a Leader

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Thank you