Visionary leadership is needed to address changes in education and produce educational productivity. A visionary leader creates a vision for the future by considering experiences and input from others. They communicate the vision, act as an agent of change, and guide others toward goals. For education to be productive, a visionary leader must effectively and efficiently use resources like teachers, funds, facilities to generate high-quality, relevant graduates who can compete in the job market. A visionary educational leader anticipates future labor needs and prepares students with skills beyond knowledge like attitudes, communication, and problem-solving. Their vision, continuous learning, service orientation, and trust in others allows them to lead educational institutions productively.

1. “ Leadership “
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BILINGUAL CHEMISTRY EDUCATION
FACULTY OF MATHEMATIC AND NATURAL SCIENCE
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
2018

2. INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Leadership is generally defined as the ability of the readiness of a person to be able to
influence, encourage, persuade, lead, moving, directing, and if necessary to force another
person or group that can accept such influence and then made something that can help to
achieve a particular purpose has been established.
Some definitions of leadership quoted Purwanto, 2012: 26-27:
1. Leadership is the power (power) that is based on the nature or character that has
more power, usually normative (Etzoni),
2. Leaders are individual in nature group that provides direction and
pengordinasian tasks that are relevant to the activities of the group (Fiedler),
3. Leadership in organizations means the use of power and decision-making
(Dubin),
4. The essence of leadership is the addition pengruh organizations to deploy and
above directives mechanical routine of an organization (Ketz and Kahn),
5. Leadership happens in groups of two people more, and generally involves the
administration of an influence on the behavior of members of the group in
relation to achieving the objectives of the group (House draft Baetz).
From the opinion of experts can be concluded that leadership is a group of a series of
abilities and personality traits, including the authority to serve as a means in order to ensure
they lead that they are willing and able to perform the tasks assigned to him. The nature and
meaning of leadership may be based on three components, namely (1) the characteristics or
properties of the agency or office, (2) the nature or character of the individual, and (3) the
category of actual behavior. Katz and Kahn (in Purwanto, 2012: 27). Educational leadership is
the ability to drive the implementation of education, so that the educational goals that have
been set can be effectively and efficiently.
B. The problems
identified problems in general is no guarantee of Visionary Leadership to address the changes
occurring in the world of education that are capable of producing educational productivity. In this
regard, some of the questions that will be discussed in the discussion of INIA dalah:
1. Does the visionary leadership?
2. Is it educational productivity?
3. How to be a visionary leader to be able to generate the productivity of education? Assuming,
that if the productivity level is reached it will automatically generate a quality education.
CHAPTER II

3. DISCUSSION
A. The concept of Leadership Visionary
Leadership relevant to the demands of"school-basedmanagement" and coveted for
productivity education is leadership with vision(VisionaryLeadership)the isleadership that work
principally focused on engineering the future is full of challenges, becoming a change agent (the agent
of change) are superior and determines the direction of the organization who know the priorities,
became a professional coach who can guide and other personnel towards professionalismexpected.
Visionary leader is a requirement kepimimpinan decentralization, where the organization must
display strength and hallmark of culture towards quality education expected.
A.1.Vision concept
Visioncreated creativity thought leaders as a reflection of the professionalism and personal
experience or as a result of deep thought to the elaboration of followers / other personnel, the ideal
form of ideas about the ideals of the organization in the future to be realized together.
Lee Roy Beach (1993: 50) defines vision as follows: "Visiondefines the ideal future, perhaps
implying retention of the current culture and the activities, or perhaps implyingchange. (The vision
describes the ideal future, perhaps implying remembrance culture now and activities, or perhaps
suggest a change)
Formation of vision influenced by life experience, education, professional experience,
interaction and communication, discovery of knowledge and intellectual activity that form
mindset(mindset)certain (Gaffar,
1994: 56).
The vision is a bullet for leadership visionary, vision plays a role in determining the future of
the organization if it is implemented in a comprehensive manner. thus the vision is formed from a
combination of inspiration, imagination insight,values, information, knowledge and judgment.
A.2.visionary Leadership Theory
Visionary Leadership emerged as a response to the statement "the only thing of permanent is
change"that requires a leader has the ability to determine the future direction through vision. Vision is
an idealization of thought leaders on the future of the organization is shared with stakeholders and a
key strength for organizational change that creates a culture of advanced and adaptable to the global
competition.
Benis and Nanus, (1997: 19) defines vision as:"Somethingthat articulates a view of a realistic,
credible, attractive future for the organization, a cobndition that is beter in some important ways than
what nowexists".In general we can say that vision is a picture of the future that we want together.
Visonary Leadership based on the demands of the changing times asking for intensive
development of the role of education in creating a reliable human resource for development, so that the

4. orientation is directed at realizing the vision of comparative and competitive value of the learner as a
repair center and school development.
Visionary leadership is the ability of a leader in creating, formulating, communicating /
socialize / transform and implement the thoughts of an ideal that comes from himself or as a result of
social interaction among members of the organization and stakeholders are believed to be the ideals of
the organization in the future that must be achieved or realized through commitment of all personnel.
To be a visionary leader, one must:
a.Understanding the Vision Concept. Vision is the idealization of thinking about the future of
organizational culture and organizational behavior are developed and anticipatory a key strength for
organizational changes that create the global competition as challenges of the
times."Visionarleadership" is a vision of leadership that should be owned by the signs mentioned
above to realize a quality school.
b.Understanding the characteristics and elements Vision. A vision has the following characteristics:
(1) clarify the direction and objective, easily understood and articulated, (2) reflects the ideals high and
set a standard of excellence, (3) foster inspiration, passion, enthusiasm and commitment, (4) creates
meaning for the members of the organization, (5) reflects the uniqueness or privileges of the
organization, (6) implies the values upheld by the organization, (7) contextual meaning careful attention
to the organization's relationship with the environment and the historical development of the
organization concerned.
A.3. Steps to Becoming Visionary Leadership
Vision must be refreshed so that it remains appropriate and commensurate with the changes
that occur in the environment. Because of that vision in this context is a primary attribute of a leader. It
is the duty and responsibility of the leadership to give birth, nurture, develop, implement, and
refreshing vision it has the ability to provide fast and appropriate response to the problems and
demands facing the organization. It is clear that the vision turned out process, can be engineered and
developed.
(a) Creation Vision
Vision is created from the results of creative thought leaders as a reflection of the
professionalism and personal experience or as a result of deep thought to the elaboration of followers
/ other personnel ideal form ideas about the ideals of the organization in the future to be realized
together.
(b) Formulation of vision
visionary leadership in the task of drafting a vision is the awareness of the importance of
vision formulated in a clear statement to be a commitment of all personnel in realizing that leaders

5. seek to elaborate informsi, ideals, combined with the personal desire ideals / ideas other personnel in
forum intensive communication resulting in crystallization of the organization's vision.
Vision needs to be formulated in a statement that is clear and unequivocal, and its formulation
should involve stakeholders to phase out activities as beirkut:
(1) the establishment and the formulation of a vision by members of the leadership team
(2) to formulate strategies by consensus
(3) made up the attitude and determination as a total commitment to realize this vision became a reality.
(c) Transformation Vision
Ability to build trust through intensive and effective communication in an effort shared
vision to stakeholders, in order to obtain a sense of belonging and a sense of ownership
(d) Implementation of the Vision
Implementation vision of a leader's ability in elaborating and translating vision into action.
Vision is a bullet for visionary leadership. Vision plays a role in determining the future of the
organization if it is implemented in a comprehensive manner. Visionary leadership work in the four
pillars as it is said Nanus (2001), namely: (1) Determinants Directions, (2) Agents of Change, (3)
Spokesperson, (4) coach and communicator.
B. EducationProductivity concept
Productivityof education can be seen or measured from the point efktivitas and efficiency of
the results of the educational process. Effectiveness of education can be seen from the point of
achievement and the educationalprocess. Achievement can be seen from
the input and output uniform, high quality, relevant, and have a significant economic value for
graduates.
Equity intent is capable of receiving inputs and produce graduates with the results of
education according to the needs. The quality of education can be seen fromthe value added generated
by educational institutions both in products and services that can compete in the job as needed
stakehlder. Adalalhadanya relevant point linkage and correspondence to the needs of people who are
building, both in terms of energy, as well as the knowledge generated. While the economic value of
goods and services are, or graduates issued by an educational institution has economic significance,
where the graduates will be awarded a good or decent.
The education process includes a high learning motivation on the learner, discipline, passion
and work ethic is high on the teaching staff were intertwined with the educational process is
accompanied by professional ethics education.
The efficiency of education with regard to utilizing the personnel, facilities, funds and time to
a minimum, but it can create a lot of results, quality, relevance and economic value of the maximum.

6. Therefore, the productivity of education is one of the criteria for the successful management
of education is expected to equip the independence of Indonesia fully human quality and the quality of
the independence of the Indonesian people who become the main target.
While the concept of productivity by Sutermeister (1976: 2), is a result of one's work is based
on the time spent to performthe task, supported by technology, the lay-out of work, methods of making
the employee's performance results are satisfactory.
Based on the above description, it can be concluded that a productive education can be
generated using available resources effectively and efficiently in accordance with the objectives set in
the vision.
C. Visionary Leadership in Productivity Leads to Education
In this section, trying to explain how a visionary leader in creating a productive educational
outcomes.
C.1. Cases that occurred at the World Education
This section describes the problems in the world of education with regard to the leadership of
the leader of education (especially at the unit level of education) has not run a leadership role especially
Visionary leadership as the demands of organizational change, the results of several studies suggest
that:
a. There are still a lot of human resources of the State of Indonesia which become workers rough
in neighboring countries, such as household helpers, laborers and others. This shows that the
human resources of Indonesia competitiveness and low bargaining power with other nations.
Another fact that proves the low quality of human resources of Indonesia is data obtained
from the UNDP in New York in 2001 were calculated based on three indicators, namely 1).
longevity as measured by life expectancy; 2). education,as measured by the literacy rate
among adults is combined with the number entered elementary school, junior and senior, as
well; 3). standard of living as measured by real GDP per capita of Indonesia, the Indonesian
State got a score of 68 out of 100 and was ranked 102 out of 172 countries. This condition is
less encouraging achievement considering that Indonesia is a country rich in natural resources.
(Naharoh, 2007).
b. The phenomenon of supervision in the field of education this time was not a bit of principals
who can not function as a supervisor, but more duties that are administrative only. (Nurjanah,
2007).
c. No formal education institutions ranging from elementary schools to the universities,
including institutions of human resource development in general, has not yet become a
learning organization. Human beings in it is not yet a human learner. In these areas, are not
widely found a professorwho holds a doctorate but do not have access to the internet, does not
subscribe to the media daily, never wrote for publication works, and so forth. (Danim, 2003)

7. d. A phenomenon that occurs with regard to decision-making by a leader at the moment is still a
leader in taking decisions which the decision does not provide a positive impact for the
progress of the organization (Andy, 2007).
C.2. Become A Leader Visionary in Produce Productivity Education
If we talk about education, then the concept of thinking we were not going to escape from a
vehicle in running the educational process, phases of education and education, where it can be
classified according to the track, level and type of education, which has been established in the
National Education System.
In the era of free market in the 21st century, education should be able to anticipate the various
demands. First, the school is expected to menyelenggarakana more humanistic program. Humanist
meaning in this case is to provide a greater opportunity for community members to be able to benefit
from the provision of education, educational quality assurance, to meet their needs, and the cost of
education is worth it.
Second, the global labor competition, which entered with foreign investment as a consequence
of the implementation of the ASEAN-AFTA agreement (starting in 2002), WTO-GATT and APEC
(starting in 2010). In anticipation of this world pendidiakan should be able to guaranteestudents theirin
various professional fields to obtain a professional certificate as a condition for obtaining the right to
work in accordance with the competence expertise learned in educational institutions.
Third, education should be able to prepare students that incompetence judged not only on the
basis of mastery of knowledge and skills, but also mastery of attitudes and morale, communication
skills, interpersonal, leadership, teamwork, problem analysis and synthetic problem-solving, discipline,
information technology , use of computers, work flexibility, able to manage vagueness problem, can
work in a variety of cultures, trained in work ethic, as well as master a foreign language as the primary
language.
Fourth, implementation guidelines for the curriculum as a course of study should be able to
maintain harmony between the programs organized by the aspirations of the people and the state.
Fifth, higher education is expected to accommodate the politicization of education, lifelong
learning needs, the internationalization of higher education within the meaning reconvergent phase
ofeducation.
Accordingly, in order to create a productive education, then any leader who carry out their
responsibilities should be able to specify in advance a vision in implementing its work program in
order to be able to achieve the expected goals. Vision to be set, formulated first by involving elements
that are competent in education by involving stakeholders.
Before a set vision leader, that leader needs to have a life experience, education, professional
experience, interaction and communication in intellectual activity that form the pattern of thought.
Thus, the creation of a vision is formed from a combination of inspiration, imagination insight,
information, knowledge and judgment(judgment).
A leader who has the concept of: 1). how to engineer the future to create a productive
education; 2). make himself as an agent of change; 3). positioned as a determinant of the direction of

8. the organization; 4). a coach or counselor is a professional; 5). able to display the power of knowledge
based on professional experience and education, supported by the characteristic of the culture of work
in achieving objectives set out in the vision and set out on a mission, can be regarded as visionary
leadership.
Education can be said to be productive if a leader in managing education can do effectiveness
and efficiency in the implementation implement the 5 concepts mentioned above, in connection with
the use of the educational resources available such as educators or education, funds, facilities
(infrastructure), and competence curriculum in order to generate the achievement of equitable, high
quality, relevant and has economic value to its graduates, (according to the wishes and expectations set
in a vision) that is able to compete in the world of work as appropriate public / stakeholder.
Therefore, in producing educational productive of an educational institution, it should be led
by a leader who has a vision or a view far ahead of what will be required labor market in accordance
with the times and be able to produce human resources that are reliable
Qualities of a visionary , other than he was able to see and take advantage of opportunities in
the future he also has the leadership principles as stated Stephen R.Covey (1997: 27-37) about a
principled leader, with the following characteristics:
(a) Always learning ( continuous)
(b) oriented to service
(c) Radiate positive energy
(d) Trusting others
(e) living balanced
(f) Viewing life as an adventure
(g) Synergistic
(h) Always practice to renew itself, to be able to achieve high
While the productivity according to Thomas (1972), stating that the size of the productivity of
an organization are:
1. the administrator's productionfunction,are focus on the order of the institution in the
mechanisms of leadership and management that gives attention to customer satisfaction,
especially on the role of leader education units in providing services the
customer(customer).As more and more satisfactory services to the customers of a given
institution, the more productive the institution.
2. The psychologist's ProductionFunction,focuses on behavior change as HSIL learners learn.
Productivity can be measured by the change in the behavior of students, the results of the
learning process that meets the learning needs of students based upon the characteristics and
tasks of student learning and to develop students' potential as a whole.
3. The Economist's ProductionFunction,is to measure the productivity of a benefit or advantage
obtained by the students after the sacrifice of time, effort, money, and others. Education in this
case as HumanCapital.Productive education is education that has the benefit of individuals
who do so in the form of abilities, skills that are relevant to the lives and can help themselves

9. and family life. Education productive able to create social benefit as a result the entire
understanding of graduates to create a quality of life and significant environmental benefits.
A person can be said to be a leader Visionary in producing educational productive, if during
the performance of his responsibilities as a leader able to manage the process of education is constantly
creating innovations with the resources available (if possible hold a new resource) has managed to
create the appropriate output to the vision and power to become a reliable human resources in line with
expectations or desires of stakeholders / users of educational services, where the results can create
graduates who have the benefit of the people who do it in the formof abilities, skills that are relevant to
the lives and can help yourself and your family in his life , capable of creating social benefit as a result
the entire understanding of graduates to create a quality of life and significant environmental benefits.

10. CHAPTER III
CONCLUSION
Leadership Visionary is the ability of a leader in creating, formulating, communicating /
socialize / transform and implement the thoughts of an ideal that comes from himself or as a result of
social interaction among members of the organization and stakeholders are believed to be the ideals of
the organization in the future is to be achieved or realized through the commitment of all personnel.
Being a visionary leader demanded should understand: 1) the concept of vision, 2) the
characteristics and elements of the vision, and 3) the purpose of vision. This needs to be controlled in
order to become future engineers, change agents, in driving organizational priorities, coaches and
counselors are professionals.
With an understanding of the vision, it is expected of a leader can make changes in presenting
managerial power and formation characteristic of the culture in order to change the future of education
is productive (according to the needs and demands of the times), so as to produce human resources that
are reliable as expected and intended purpose

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