Post-COVID Educational Leadership: Emerging Models and Styles for a New Era

Abstract

A compelling vision, goals to go along with it, and a suitable plan for implementation, observation, and review are all necessary components of modern educational leadership, which is widely regarded as essential for boosting an institution's effectiveness and acting as a catalyst for change and innovative strategy. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions to the delivery of educational services, highlighting weaknesses in the leadership theory behind schools and universities. The majority of institutes' adoption of suitable crisis management strategies to swiftly adapt to a new reality and effectively address upcoming difficulties at both the administrative and instructional levels was mostly responsible for these failures. Despite the idea of crisis management having been successfully applied in various types of crises and extensively developed theoretically, there is a notable lack of empirical research in this area, indicating that the field of educational leadership has not given it consistent attention. This study bridges the research gap by employing the PRISMA methodology to build a systematic review of scholarly articles published during 2019 and 2022. Following the unstable leader, the paper discusses the challenges faced, the crisis management strategies employed, and the personality attributes most commonly associated with effective crisis leadership during the COVID-19 time frame.