Background:

Cuban pedagogy assumes the challenge of generating new professional profiles that can provide effective solutions to the ever-growing problems of society, which demands raising the educational quality of the university teacher as the protagonist of this process.

Objective:

to support professional improvement as a challenge for teachers in leadership training for management.

Methods:

a bibliographic review was carried out with a reflexive critical analysis; normative documents of the leadership activity in management, theses, articles, and books, published between 2020 and 2023 in Spanish and English, were considered. The search was conducted in the SciELO, SCOPUS and Google Scholar databases during the period between December 2023 and March 2024; the keywords used were improvement, leadership, management and challenges.

Development:

the need to manage, from teaching, the link of the thematic lines related to the social demand of transitioning, in the conduction of society, from the leader directed to the leader-followers. It demonstrates the need for the professional improvement of teachers for the formation of leadership in management, in interaction with the guiding documents.

Conclusions:

it systematizes the theory-practice interaction, which from the improvement and in consonance with the challenges of higher education, influences the formation of new professional profiles. It suggests a formation linked to effective solutions to problems, uncertainties, and contingencies.

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