Academic Leadership: From Authority to Influence
-Dr. Asim Imran, Assistant Professor, conducted an interactive session on Professors as Leaders. He focused on skills and practices that enable academic leaders to create positive and collaborative university environments.
The session explored:
• Reflecting on leadership identity, values and behaviors.
• Leading through influence, empathy and trust.
• Practising emotionally intelligent communication.
• Building psychologically safe and inclusive academic cultures.
• Navigating conflict, change and competing priorities.
• Leading multidisciplinary teams and fostering collaboration.
• Developing practical, personalised leadership action plans.
The session highlighted that effective academic leadership extends beyond formal authority, it is built through trust, empathy, communication and shared ownership.
Strong leaders.
Thriving departments.
Better universities.
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