The workshop aims to train 25 polytechnic leaders across Indonesia who have not yet taken part in DIES training courses on strategic management and leadership in the context of private institution in Indonesia. The training, which takes a practice-oriented approach, is to equip these leaders to cruise over the highly dynamics, and often abrupt, Indonesian higher education landscape. Upon the completion of the training, we expect these leaders can effectively lead the transformation of the institution to compete in the Indonesian as well as ASEAN and global context.

Participants will focus on change projects which are unique and specific for their institutions within the four major topics: (i), Leadership and strategic management, (ii) Project management, (iii) Human resource management, and (iv) Quality assurance. The change project is to give solutions to one of the issues the institutions are facing. It is important that the change project should have a reasonable time frame to implement as well as have a sustainability scheme. A few possibilities on the topics are: establishing and evaluating long distance learning mechanism for practical courses in polytechnic setting, establishing a strong collaboration between polytechnics and industries, increasing alumni engagement, and promoting a research culture in the institution.

By the end of the two-phase workshop, the participants are expected: (1) To understand the position and competitiveness of private polytechnics in Indonesia, (2) to have a solid comprehension on university governance structure and functional management in their institution, (3) to have the agility to maneuver through the fast moving higher education environment, (4) to make measurable transformation of their institution through the tools provided during the training, (5) to implement and evaluate the project during various stages of the training as well as to discuss the take-home points from other participants, and (6) to develop partnership and network among participants.