I'm very happy that I found this very useful and helpful forum. Guys, could you please have a look at what I prepared for Chevening. Any comments and corrections will be very appreciated. Thank you so much!
1. Chevening is looking for individuals that will be future leaders or influencers in their home countries. Explain how you meet this requirement, using clear examples of your own leadership and influencing skills to support your answer.
(minimum word count: 50 words, maximum word count: 500 words)
If the ability to look below the surface, having willingness to accept challenges, skills to build a vision and lead others to it by actions and inspirations altogether form future leader characteristics I could be considered as a future leader.
Since I was old enough to remember I have always been taken initiatives and led others at the kindergarten and at school even at the playground. That girl has grown up with leadership traits and skills but she still has some weaknesses until she had sufficiently matured. Lessons learned from mistakes were invaluable experience. In junior year of high school I had been chosen as a lead of radio interview project at school despite working as head of class. Because of the tons of workload and pressure of courses I was tended to giving orders instead improving communication and motivations. That approach didn't last long and I've terminated from head of class. I've realized difference between a leader and a boss from this lesson. That was painful and quite helpful experience to be matured. Hence I've chosen participation approach, I have chosen to dealing with root cause to fix the problem instead of fighting with surface appearance. These have been stayed with me ever since. Those abilities were a key to successfully accomplish a complicated task of coordinating the community representatives and many international and national consultants for Asia foundation project.
Leading a team with action and inspiration helped me get the challenging tasks done at workplace. It was much more challenging to combine colleagues from different divisions under one team than convincing management to carry out my idea. Only five months after I joined to my company, I had given a task to substantiate my idea through action. 50% of the job had been done at the first meeting. Firstly we discussed all the sub-tasks I prepared and all agreed they could do that. Finally I came with compelling reasons why we have to do this project and have provided vivid shared goal that would be accomplished by getting all that sub-tasks done. In the progress, I chose rejecting typical "one size fits all" approach to project team. I used one-on-one approach for each working group leaders and improved internal communication. I successfully leaded a team over 60 people with different capabilities and organized the first official used equipment auction in short time frame. One month after our accomplishment, we received email informing that our project has posted on dealer online community network (online platform including all dealers through the world) as a benchmark. I have created effective communication and set vision although there was considerable lack of supports from team members at the beginning. Overcoming this challenge made me stronger and helped me to form "challenge accepted" attitude. The clearly defined, measureable and achievable goals and motivations of team members together formed great accomplishment.
I will be enjoying to embrace the challenges in competitive environment in the future. Taking initiatives and lead by actions would enable me one of the opinion shapers in the future, I believe.
2. Chevening is looking for individuals who have a clear post-study career plan. Outline your immediate plans upon returning home and your longer term career goals, considering how these relate to UK priorities in your country.
(minimum word count: 50 words, maximum word count: 500 words)
I imagine myself as making opening speech in the first "Community engagement role in mining sector" forum which is my immediate plan after my completion of master's degree. My aspiration and knowledge and experiences I could obtain from my study in United Kingdom will enable me to address sustainable development issue in country's context. During my study in UK I want to address mining sector contribution in local sustainable development at pilot area and to assess its community involvement in both corporate decision-making and local policy-making process. Although my past experiences form solid research background further academic study is necessary to acquire knowledge on range of economic, environment and social issues and for developing skills such as social research methodology, critical thinking in addressing socio-economic challenges. With these virtues that British universities offer, I would be one of the opinion shapers on corporate responsibility and sustainable development issue.
I have watched the changes, conflicts and confusions my country facing. I have observed that companies, people even the government were unprepared for the transformation. I have experienced with failure in talent searching from local in which mining boom was taking place and faced with great confusion when I was doing research on gender issues in mining sector. I have dealt with lack of information on sustainability issues in the process of aggregating news for the newsletter I produce. My experience charging equipment rental fee from client which couldn't operate for few days because of protest taken place at their mine site was painful. I realized we have absolutely inevitable reasons that we should make sizable improvements when I argued with former foreign affairs minister, country director of Rio Tinto, my colleagues of Women in Mining NGO. All these have sharpened my desire to contribute sustainable development and have made me more encouraged to improve effective community engagement.
Upon my time return I start closely with companies as a consultant where I can put my advanced knowledge and experience in real-life context. I want to conduct trainings, workshops for mining companies, government employees and non-governmental practitioners. Chevening will give me a brilliant opportunity to enhance.
My failures in applying several international and national large-scale projects exposed me to specialized knowledge and skills. These include policy analysis, social research methods, in-depth understanding of global commodity business and its socio-economic impact. These virtues are presented in the programs I intended to enroll. With this qualifications I can pursue my career as a consultant in important projects in the future. It would be invaluable opportunity for me to reach higher position where I can address sustainable policy and community impacts in professional way and provide the best possible solutions. I want to build better community. I aspire to fill this unconsidered focus and my tenacity would lead me to make a real difference.
There are much more things to help companies getting "social license" and create sustainability. Master's degree would be important step for my PhD as well. So that I can have wider impact in the field.
I want a journey. My journey will form amazing story starting from girl born in rural to the world arena.
1. Chevening is looking for individuals that will be future leaders or influencers in their home countries. Explain how you meet this requirement, using clear examples of your own leadership and influencing skills to support your answer.
(minimum word count: 50 words, maximum word count: 500 words)
If the ability to look below the surface, having willingness to accept challenges, skills to build a vision and lead others to it by actions and inspirations altogether form future leader characteristics I could be considered as a future leader.
Since I was old enough to remember I have always been taken initiatives and led others at the kindergarten and at school even at the playground. That girl has grown up with leadership traits and skills but she still has some weaknesses until she had sufficiently matured. Lessons learned from mistakes were invaluable experience. In junior year of high school I had been chosen as a lead of radio interview project at school despite working as head of class. Because of the tons of workload and pressure of courses I was tended to giving orders instead improving communication and motivations. That approach didn't last long and I've terminated from head of class. I've realized difference between a leader and a boss from this lesson. That was painful and quite helpful experience to be matured. Hence I've chosen participation approach, I have chosen to dealing with root cause to fix the problem instead of fighting with surface appearance. These have been stayed with me ever since. Those abilities were a key to successfully accomplish a complicated task of coordinating the community representatives and many international and national consultants for Asia foundation project.
Leading a team with action and inspiration helped me get the challenging tasks done at workplace. It was much more challenging to combine colleagues from different divisions under one team than convincing management to carry out my idea. Only five months after I joined to my company, I had given a task to substantiate my idea through action. 50% of the job had been done at the first meeting. Firstly we discussed all the sub-tasks I prepared and all agreed they could do that. Finally I came with compelling reasons why we have to do this project and have provided vivid shared goal that would be accomplished by getting all that sub-tasks done. In the progress, I chose rejecting typical "one size fits all" approach to project team. I used one-on-one approach for each working group leaders and improved internal communication. I successfully leaded a team over 60 people with different capabilities and organized the first official used equipment auction in short time frame. One month after our accomplishment, we received email informing that our project has posted on dealer online community network (online platform including all dealers through the world) as a benchmark. I have created effective communication and set vision although there was considerable lack of supports from team members at the beginning. Overcoming this challenge made me stronger and helped me to form "challenge accepted" attitude. The clearly defined, measureable and achievable goals and motivations of team members together formed great accomplishment.
I will be enjoying to embrace the challenges in competitive environment in the future. Taking initiatives and lead by actions would enable me one of the opinion shapers in the future, I believe.
2. Chevening is looking for individuals who have a clear post-study career plan. Outline your immediate plans upon returning home and your longer term career goals, considering how these relate to UK priorities in your country.
(minimum word count: 50 words, maximum word count: 500 words)
I imagine myself as making opening speech in the first "Community engagement role in mining sector" forum which is my immediate plan after my completion of master's degree. My aspiration and knowledge and experiences I could obtain from my study in United Kingdom will enable me to address sustainable development issue in country's context. During my study in UK I want to address mining sector contribution in local sustainable development at pilot area and to assess its community involvement in both corporate decision-making and local policy-making process. Although my past experiences form solid research background further academic study is necessary to acquire knowledge on range of economic, environment and social issues and for developing skills such as social research methodology, critical thinking in addressing socio-economic challenges. With these virtues that British universities offer, I would be one of the opinion shapers on corporate responsibility and sustainable development issue.
I have watched the changes, conflicts and confusions my country facing. I have observed that companies, people even the government were unprepared for the transformation. I have experienced with failure in talent searching from local in which mining boom was taking place and faced with great confusion when I was doing research on gender issues in mining sector. I have dealt with lack of information on sustainability issues in the process of aggregating news for the newsletter I produce. My experience charging equipment rental fee from client which couldn't operate for few days because of protest taken place at their mine site was painful. I realized we have absolutely inevitable reasons that we should make sizable improvements when I argued with former foreign affairs minister, country director of Rio Tinto, my colleagues of Women in Mining NGO. All these have sharpened my desire to contribute sustainable development and have made me more encouraged to improve effective community engagement.
Upon my time return I start closely with companies as a consultant where I can put my advanced knowledge and experience in real-life context. I want to conduct trainings, workshops for mining companies, government employees and non-governmental practitioners. Chevening will give me a brilliant opportunity to enhance.
My failures in applying several international and national large-scale projects exposed me to specialized knowledge and skills. These include policy analysis, social research methods, in-depth understanding of global commodity business and its socio-economic impact. These virtues are presented in the programs I intended to enroll. With this qualifications I can pursue my career as a consultant in important projects in the future. It would be invaluable opportunity for me to reach higher position where I can address sustainable policy and community impacts in professional way and provide the best possible solutions. I want to build better community. I aspire to fill this unconsidered focus and my tenacity would lead me to make a real difference.
There are much more things to help companies getting "social license" and create sustainability. Master's degree would be important step for my PhD as well. So that I can have wider impact in the field.
I want a journey. My journey will form amazing story starting from girl born in rural to the world arena.