Leadership skills of managers of educational institutions

Abstract

The leadership of the directors remembers that the competencies, skills and abilities are not focused on the administrative task, but must be plural, promoting actions in the financial, academic, pedagogical, administrative and other areas that are necessary for the organization, such as it is public relations. In this sense, the objective is to analyze the leadership skills exercised by the directors of educational institutions and thereby identify the relevance of each one of them. The population were directors of five private higher education institutions in Mexico, for which a questionnaire was carried out through an instrument validated with the Cronbach's Alpha test whose value was 0.700, with a reliability of 95% and an accuracy of less than of 10%, the above through the statistical software tool Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) in its version 21. In this way, it is understood that leadership includes different skills that do not emanate from an individual condition, but rather participate hand in hand with global dynamics related to the organization and the context, generating through it strategic positioning