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UIN Walisongo Semarang as one of the Islamic universities strives to be a pioneer in developing excellent human resources. UIN Walisongo Semarang as an educational unit as well as an educational organization must move forward in order to build the quality of education nationally and internationally in the 4.0 era. The current digital era requires leadership capacity that is able to anticipate the changes that occur. The power of leadership will successfully face the challenges of the times by encouraging lecturers, staff or students to be able to develop all their potential through motivation, inspiration, cooperation, all human resources in achieving goals. Conditions in accordance with the demographic bonus of Indonesia today, where the excellence of human resource competitiveness will be the key to the progress and competitiveness of the nation. The lecturer's learning leadership style is one of the important factors in the success of the learning process and improving student interpersonal communication.
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