DEVELOPING SELF AND LEADING OTHERS

Developing Self and Leading Others



Developing Self and Leading Others

Introduction

Leader is the person who able to inspire and guide individuals or groups. Leadership is the process of influencing people to achieve the desired goals. A good leader requires charisma, intelligence, persuasiveness, sensitivity, integrity, courage, fairness, innovativeness, brains and a big heart to lead a group of people and go their own will, motivating, stimulating and thus achieve the desired goals, that everyone is satisfied and has a sense of gain and loss. Correspondingly, educational leadership has become increasingly important since there is common belief that educational leaders can make a big difference in the quality of schools and the education received by children and young people in all levels of education, including higher education. The understanding of leadership within the field of educational leadership has generally been influenced by and mirrored the general base of evolving leadership literature.

The influence of the leadership literature in education was particularly clear in the earlier eras while the external environments were stable. However, when the external business environments began to change and leaders in these contexts had to respond respectively, educational leaders were generally still able to continue with the effective leadership strategies that worked in stable environments. When the educational environment began to change more rapidly, educational leaders responded by leading change through the development of learning communities.

Therefore, this paper addresses the educational leadership as an important factor in improving school education through educational supervision. It is noted that it is to lead and manage different educational institutions through all the years have managed and have not practiced leadership, so it is necessary a change in our country in this regard, as other countries are doing with good results. To exercise good leadership is necessary to develop emotional intelligence in all members of the community and to practice ethical principles, which means that every school has its code of conduct, and it socialize throughout the organization and will monitor compliance with the ethical standards established in other words what is preached should be practiced and be an example to others.

Discussion

Leadership is a subject that has generated interest and speculation among people for centuries. Researchers have included several common components in their explanations of leadership in different contexts, including that leadership involves a leader, a follower, an organization, and an environment. From this foundation, researchers over the past 100 years have sought to define leadership and have formulated theories conceptualizing and explaining leadership.

In 1911, Frederick Taylor published his foundational book on Scientific Management, which marked the formal beginning of the study of leadership in organizations. Since that time, the understanding and application of leadership has evolved through different eras to address new questions and to respond to different emerging leadership contexts. In the early eras of the study of leadership, research questions focused on how to identify and develop effective leaders.

As the leadership field developed and the complexities of leadership emerged, research began to ...