EDUCATIONAL LEADER ON CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP RESILEENCY

EMMANUEL JAY D. DIMAL

The leader today has been faced with crisis in education, starting from collision within road to more sustained issues. It is good to mention that the present crisis involving the COVID-19 pandemic is different than anything we’ve faced several decades, one that appears to be a chronic and can possibly empirical challenge for every leader within the institution or organizations. Effective leadership in a very prolonged crisis with such serious effect is completely necessary for a leader which requires physical, psychological, and emotional bravery.

Successful leader relies on a manager’s adaptive capacity or resiliency, described as an ability to transcend adversity, with all its attendant stresses, and to emerge stronger than before. During this pandemic crisis, resilient leaders must respond and comply with fluid of circumstances across the organization of education those changes indefinitely. As we start a chronic adjustment to the “new normal” in education, thoughtful leaders must harden a big shift in operational priorities. The leadership style which served in rising the current point must be adaptive to the current extraordinary and unprecedented crisis.

The effective crisis management and resilience in leadership is timely amidst of Pandemic. This characteristics and skills required of the school leaders in times of crisis are radical different from those usually required as a part of the school environment. Strong school leadership generally is about placing the school for the longer term, and empowering teacher’s during Pandemic crisis. Leadership in times of crisis is about coping uncertain event and facing challenges within the immediate present in ways in which minimize personal and organizational harm in school environment.

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I at San Roque Dau High School

The author is Master Teacher