Innovative Leadership for Professional Education Administrators in the Digital Age
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Background and Aim: Innovative leadership for professional education administrators in the digital age is an activity of professional education administrators in leading groups or educational organizations that require knowledge and ability to define a vision and exchange that vision with others for willing compliance, the provision of ICT systems, innovation, new knowledge, and methods for accepting change, coordinating and balancing the conflicting interests of members and stakeholders, and doing so to inspire members to act in a way that creates commitment to achieving the goals of educational administration.
Materials and Methods: This article emphasizes innovative leadership for digital age education administrators, which is management under rapid and sudden change. The key factor that will affect the success of the organization is the education administrator who must have knowledge and ability in the form of leadership that must understand the context of technology that has changed the world’s society.
Results: This article presents the importance of innovative leadership for professional education administrators in the digital age, with content consisting of knowledge about leadership, the meaning and role of innovative leadership, the importance of innovative leadership for digital age education administrators, the characteristics of innovative leadership for digital age education administrators, including mechanisms and processes of modern education administration of leaders who can lead educational institutions to become organizations of educational innovation in the digital age.
Conclusion: The form of leadership that keeps pace with change is innovative leadership for digital age education administrators, which digital age education administrators must have 10 important characteristics: 1) leadership personality and skills, 2) team leadership, 3) role model, 4) opinion leader, 5) promoting development, 6) leadership communication, 7) learning climate, 8) change management, 9) competencies supporting and developing, and 10) participative administrations.
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