Paper presentation on Academic Leadership and 21 Century Challenges by Dr. Ravee Tripathi

1. Topic
Academic Leadership and 21 Century challenges
Presenter: Dr. Raavee Tripathi
PSIT,Kanpur
raaveet@gmail.com

2. Outline of Presentation
Expectation of 21 century
Presentation over credentials
Leadership quality and team spirit
Innovation and creativity

3. Concerns
LSRW and reality of curriculum
Struggle for Soft Skills
 Team spirit

4. Process
Trend of Presentation and Promotion
Enhancing team building and collaborative
environment
 Teaching gap and leadership quality
Innovation network and envision strategy

5. Identifying Problem
Taught 42 batches of various trades
Rate of placement was 5%in 2009
Technical knowledge over soft skills
Through PDP % grew till 34% in 2011
And this year it was 98%

6. Observation
Struggle in sharing and initiating
Stage fear is the only fear they have
Fear of criticism

7. Unique implementable strategies to address the
concern
Importance of effective communication
Role of presentation strategy
Kinesics, Proxemics and Chronomics
Presentation matters

8. Tangible and qualitative benefits of implementing the
mentioned strategies
Activities targeting students participation
Assignments and role plays to build up team spirit
GD, JAM, Individual speaking, Sharing moments
Practice through mock interviews

9. Summary
It is said, ‘Rome was not built in a day’. So, to frame
our students according to the expectation of 21
century we need to train them since very beginning to
make them stand firm in this cut throat competitive
market of skills.