Workshop for govt school heads to apprise them of leadership skills

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 8

The Bharti Institute of Public Policy (BIPP) at Indian School of Business(ISB) conducted online workshops throughout Punjab on ‘Leadership and Motivation’ for directly recruited heads of government high schools through the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) of the Punjab Education Department.

Three cohorts of 100 participants each have been trained during these online training. A total of 989 directly recruited school heads would be imparted training by holding webinars for different batches. The each training webinar would be of five-day duration.

Four heads of government schools in rural belt in district attended the five-day online training workshop under this initiative. The workshop is a part of an overarching project titled ‘Improving Quality of Education in Punjab’, that BIPP is undertaking with the Department of Education, Punjab. With emphasis on building not only the physical, behavioural and attitudinal changes in teachers, the workshops also aim to equip them with managerial and leadership skills.

“These workshops have helped us understand that it is important for a head of a team to communicate with the team and even bridge the communication gap between teachers and students.

The workshops helped us to understand that leadership requires building a strong, communication-based network of human resources, in this case teachers, who would in turn improve their teaching as well as mentoring skills,” said Narinder Singh, who is headmaster at Government High School, Chavinda Kalan and also the district mentor for science.