Witha view to building the capacity of directly recruited school heads throughPunjab Public Service Commission, the School Education Department, Punjab hasroped in prestigious management institute, Indian School of Business (ISB).Under this unique and first of its kind initiative launched last year, thenewly recruited school heads were imparted highly professional training on"Motivation and Leadership" by Bharti Institute of PublicPolicy(BIPP) under the aegis of Indian School of Business (ISB).
Theprogramme was aimed at to inculcate managerial skills to mobilise humanresources and community for bringing in qualitative improvement in schooleducation.
BhartiInstitute of Public Policy (BIPP) at Indian School of Business has conducted athree day the Refresher Online Workshop, which concluded on Thursday. As manyas 150 directly recruited Principals ofSenior Secondary Schoolsof Punjab School Education Department participated. Therefresher online workshop was a consequent course, after a year of initialtrainings for this group of Principals.
DrAarushi Jain, Associate Director, Indian School of Business,and the coursecoordinator of this training said, “The current pandemic has posed a hugechallenge for every sector and education sector has been equally impacted. Theworkshop is a part of an overarching project titled ‘Improving Quality ofEducation in Punjab’, that ISB is undertaking with the Department of SchoolEducation, Punjab”. “The school level initiatives taken by Principals duringthis challenging time are commendable and exemplary”, she added.
Theunique initiative is among the various dynamic steps undertaken by SecretaryEducation, Krishan Kumar. The idea is to orient and provide appropriatedirection to principals who are at the beginning of their careers. The traininghas been designed with a special focus on critical roles of principals asdecision-makers, team leaders and other functional areas. The goal is to buildcapacities in government schools in the state and provide the newly recruitedprincipals much needed impetus and exposure on management concepts, said ArushiJain.
Senior faculty members from ISB and expertsfrom the education sector gave valuable tips to the school principals. ProfDoreswamy Nandkishore, ISB who is a top corporate leader threw light on aspectsaround Adaptive Leadership and Changes in Management, Prof Rajeshwar Upadhyay,Director, Par Excellence focused on Emotional Intelligence and InterpersonalRelationship, during the training. Dr Aarushi Jain, Associate Director, withthe help of case method and simulation helped participants understand the teambuilding process and group dynamics.
ProfVijaya Sunder, Operations Management faculty at ISB took expert sessions onProject Management during this training. Prof Ashwini Chhatre, ExecutiveDirector, Bharti Institute of Public Policy, ISB laid emphasis on thecommitment of institute to work closely with the governments and providemanagement insights to Government Officials to improve public service deliveryat the grassroots.
Theparticipants also shared their experiences regarding impact of last year’straining during the three day workshop. Sunil Mehral, Principal, Govt. Sr. Sec.Smart School, Datarpur (Hoshiarpur) who has been acclaimed during the trainingfor his efforts under the BALA Scheme as well as Infrastructure Developmentsaid that the training provided a unique opportunity and participants are veryexcited to be the refresher.
PardeepSingh, Principal, Govt. Sen. Sec. School, Lalori Kalan, Ludhiana emphasized onvocational courses as well mobilizing community support for improvements at theschool. Harnit Bhatia, Principal, GSSS, Channuwala, Moga, aimed to focus onhealth and hygiene during the pandemic thereby making his school future ready.Kulwinder Kaur, Principal, GSS Smart School Khara, Faridkot focused on BasicInfrastructure and Academics one year after the Introductory Training on“Motivation and Leadership” conducted by ISB.