Skills for leading and managing
Last Updated On August 20, 2018
Brief Description
Content around skills that are essential for leading an organization, skills that are essential to developing oneself as a leader, Content focused on understanding the essential skills of leading and managing organizations, individuals and institutions; knowledge of skills needed towards bringing in improvements.
Rationale for inclusion in the Taxonomy
Much of educational leadership literature, research, models, assumptions and theories pay attention to core leadership skills. These include practical every day skills such as budgeting and problem solving to higher order leading and managing skills such as active listening, coaching and mentoring and facilitating, empathy, non-violent communication, facilitation and mentoring. This is core to educational leadership and its purpose, skills in building a vision for the school.
Vocabulary/Synonyms
leadership skills, management skills, leadership development, self development, leading others, Leadership in schools, Leadership for schools, School Leadership capacity development, School Leadership Development, Professional development for school and school system leaders, Educational leadership development, coaching, mentoring, facilitating, conflict resolution, negotiation, time management, resource management, visioning skills