Academic Leadership and Making Leaders in Higher Education (Training program)

Introduction

The program adopts a holistic approach to building leadership capabilities in the academic institution. The program includes five main levels, which contribute to the discovery, preparation, making, development, and strengthening of academic capabilities at every potential leadership level. The program helps the academic institution develop its leadership capabilities, starting with promising leaders, new leaders and people expected to assume leadership positions in the future, then current leaders who are already performing leadership tasks, second-line leaders who are assigned advanced leadership tasks, and ending with people in higher leadership positions and leaders Strategists and senior leaders.

Program Duration

The duration of each program is two days - 12 training hours (not including breaks), a total of 10 training programs distributed on all the proposed levels.

Objectives and General Outcomes

1. Discover and train people who are promising leadership and are expected to assume leadership duties.
2. Enable the leaders of the academic institution to understand their roles and develop their leadership skills and capabilities.
3. Enhance the academic institution’s contributions towards achieving the Kingdom’s 2030 vision through leaders, and linking its objectives with the requirements of Vision 2030, especially with regard to developing human capital, ensuring compatibility between educational outcomes and labor market needs, improving the ranking of educational institutions, and improving the performance of the government agency.
4. Confirm and enhance the competence of leadership capabilities in the academic institution and its ability to deal with the challenges of change in higher education.
5. Create a platform for academic leaders to lead the current and future strategic transformation in the academic institution.

Five levels of the Academic Leadership and Leadership Building program in higher education

• The first level: Self-leadership.
• The second level: leading others.
• The third level: leadership of leaders.
• The fourth level: functional leadership.
• Fifth level: institutional and strategic leadership