61 Businesses have long recognized the benefits of promoting talent from within, from hard work and boosted morale to uninterrupted productivity. At the same time, few institutions prioritize setting future managers up for success. Recognizing that the skills needed to succeed as managers are different from those that make for great researchers, Bar-Ilan CEO and Senior Vice President Zohar Yinon and Chief of Human Resources Maor Pinko created the “Leaders” program to identify and nurture staff and faculty members with the potential to become high-level managers and fill top academic positions in the University. Consisting of 12 sessions over the Leveraging Potential into Leadership The Leaders Management Program course of almost nine months, the program offered 16 handpicked participants—12 of whomwere senior researchers, and four administrative staff—an opportunity to study leadership, personal development, and entrepreneurship with successful managers fromBar-Ilan, as well as to gain in-depth knowledge of the University’s core values, departments, and initiatives. Course speakers and topics included innovation in teaching and learning with Vice Rector Arie Reich, and trends and challenges in higher education with Faculty of Law Prof. (emeritus) Yaffa Zilbershatz, former chairman of Israel’s Council of Higher Education. CEO and Senior Vice President Zohar Yinon holds a certificate from Globes Israel declaring Bar-Ilan one of the country’s “Best Places to Work in 2023.”
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