LEADERSHIP ROLES, DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND MANTRAS FOR IDEAL PRINCIPALS:

LEADERSHIP ROLES, DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND MANTRAS FOR IDEAL PRINCIPALS:

 Educational administration starts with leadership, devotion, and sufficient understandable maturity.

 He must participate by influencing others to contribute intellectually to the organization. It is not the power, but ability to accomplish through personal capabilities.

 He must establish direction. He must sensitize fellow faculty constructively, at micro level for greater professionalism and better results.

 He must develop a cadre of devoted professionals. Students must be comfortably, technically employable.

 He must provide resources. He must think of ways to stimulate objective perception of reality in staff and students. Student must remember that ‘the college has given him’ good knowledge tools useful in life.

 He must encourage and recognize achievements of faculty and students by investing responsibilities and importance.

 In establishing the direction, he must think as to what direction he is providing to his fellow teachers by way conducting various meetings with all the teachers.

 It is the question of better coordination of the activities.

 It is the question of achieving the desired results by variety of intellectual activities to the students and staff. He must think of developing technical leaders of the disciplines in a true sense

 It is necessary to adapt certain TQM (management) methods which develop customer (Student) focus, teamwork, teacher involvement, empowerment, continual improvement, bottom up education & training, unity of purpose---which are effective in providing efficient services for the students.

 He should be creating a world in which engineers, scientists, colleagues are respected for
exemplary ethical behavior and volunteerism. He should behave in an unbiased,
undivided, impartial fashion with a broadened and mature mind to improve the
divinity in every human being.

 He must be committed to the core values viz, service to humanity, global focus, intellectual
Activities, growth and nurturing of profession, collaboration, educated
community building, professionalism, trust and respect.

 He must think of developing the Institute into an industrial consulting and applied R&D organization.

 Providing a clear vision as to what the organization / society requires ensuring its future success should be the aim. This can be the sense of mission for him/ her.

 He must make logical and judicious administrative decisions related to the training of students.

 He should develop & fine tune plans that anticipate future events and consequences of technology which pave way for the economic growth of the country.

 He should make decisions without delay, despite ambiguous information, absence of clear direction, or lack of consensus.

 He must create impact by making and sustaining a good impression. He must command attention & respect, and set an example to others .This can be achieved by actions to capture the moment, set a desired tone and enhance credibility; communicate desired work norms and values to demonstrate a positive model to others; exhibit poise and self assurance. The points made are both appealing and polished..

 He must fine tune & modify the approaches if necessary; to reach the higher academic goals. If required he must change ideas or perceptions based on new information (or evidence), and requirements of the situation. Execute what will be best to motivate others by adapting to novel situations.

 He must identify and develop a competent and diverse work force and leadership team;
if necessary work as a coach in the development process. Initiate plans for the life
long education / development of the faculty.

 He should strive to communicate effectively, handle stress effectively, maintain a positive and professional image, work as team player, build trust and loyalty, maintain high accuracy with thorough attention on minute aspects (in detail), be decisive and assertive, be well organized, strive for sufficient perseverance and demonstrate knowledge of technical skills.

 He must receive and share information to ensure clear understanding and appropriate action. In this process he should speak and write clearly, concisely, and directly; listen attentively and respond with empathy towards others; tailor communication to audience; give and accept input suggestions; and practice a two-way communications.

 Over and above all he must strive to use proper written communication skills, maintain proper communication with the training and placement department, ensure back-up coverage and cross training, understand and utilize employee empowerment guidelines and respond professionally to customer complaints.

 Thus the leader (principal) must be a multifaceted professional, trying to cater to the
needs of multi-person, multi-goal, multi-level and multi-directional fashion.

 If the educational administrator is committed to the above norms, he would ensure a
‘Genuinely satisfactory successes.
….. Dr. K. J. Sarma