Continuous Leadership Development Evaluating the Effectiveness of Training Programs for Educational Administrators

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School and university administrators must be dynamic, adaptive, visionary, and 21st century leadership. Continuing with the trend of high degree of recognition as a strategic priority of continuous leadership development (CLD) to improve institutional effectiveness, teacher performance and outcomes of students. In this study the design, implementation, and impact of leadership training programs designed for educational administrators as to their effectiveness are explored. The study takes a mixed-methods research approach that includes a survey, interviews and document analysis to investigate short term skills acquisition, and long term change in administrative practice. Leadership training programmes turn out to enhance selfconfidence as well as provide more knowledge, but continuing professional growth depends on contextual issues including managerial culture, mentoring and after training support. Strategic recommendations for designing more impactful and sustainable leadership development programs in educational contexts are offered in the last part of the paper.

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