Scholarship / Drugstore contracts, internship programs for pharmacy students - leadership skills examples [3]

Chevening is looking for individuals who 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: 100 words, maximum word count: 500 words)

Examples showing leadership capabality

I built my leadership ability in the professional career when I signed my first two-year contract with a health company as a pharmacist and as a general manager in a drugstore. It was very interesting to me because I had to build the drugstore from the beginning. It took me four months to provide all the documents and deal with the government to get the license.

As a new drugstore, it was quite difficult to compete with similar companies that have been existing and have a strong reputation. I realised that the strength of our competitive strategy was concern about the satisfying service to all costumers and patients. I manage the team consisting 6 people, and I divided them into two shifts. In each shift, there was one pharmacist. The pharmacist would give the complete information and good advice about the medicines. The data of the patient who needed particular medication would be recorded, then we would follow it up by phone to ask their progress. I also opened consultation by phone to help the customer to get the right treatment, and the medicines would be shipped on the same day. I gained ultimate success in improving the public trust within ten months, so the patients who came for treatment increased drastically.

My second contract is with my current drugstore. It gives me the same position and job description as my previous job. However, it is more challenging for me because I am given full authority to manage the company. It means I could apply all my leadership and managerial skills to manage all the resources.

Since the drugstore is located in the developing area, where the resident as our customers and patients are from middle low economic level. I apply the marketing mix to attract the customer and get their trust. I complete the stock of medicines and health equipment to meet their need and I decrease the margin to accelerate the inventory turnover. I renovate the drugstore and its medicines display to make more interesting. To motivate my team and solve the cutting edge problems, I conduct briefing twice a week. I also lead monthly based-evaluation to measure our success in applying management system and set the new target for the following month. I involve all of my team members in any decision-making process so they responsible in every decision.

During four years duration of work, I experienced handling four times internship programs for pharmacy students which range from high level to diploma one. I teach them the real practical pharmacy service and give them basic knowledge about pharmacy community and health management of drugstore. The general problem of the internship program is a passive intern student. I encourage and stimulate their critical thinking by giving job description and asking them to make minimum three questions related to their job description every day, then we discuss them in our daily-based meeting. I completely believe they will improve their curiosity by stimulating them to ask. I realize that they ask both silly and critical questions. It was the best way to learn and gain their critical thinking by questioning.

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Scholarship / I am still young, energetic, high self-motivated person who is visionary, enjoy studying and working [3]

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Personal statement for Master of Health Management

I was completely surprised. At 4.30 am I had to cycle to the nearest Community Treatment Center to call the nurse to give the first aid and reserve the ambulance for my father who had to be hospitalized immediately due to his light heart attack. Fortunately, my father could be helped although we spent more than 2,5 hours to the nearest and the only hospital in my home island, Rxxx Island. It is the southeast most island of Indonesia. To serve its habitat more than 180.000 people in 12.000sqm width, it only has one hospital and 3 drug stores. Lacking health facilities causes unequally medicine distribution and inaptitude health services. Absolutely it is not effective and efficient, whereas health service is very basic for every single nation.

I am writing to apply for Master of Health Management in City University of London. It is appropriate to my necessity to build my home island. I am completely interested in the modules which are offered. The Key to enhance my Leadership ability to provides consequential guidance for leading health company and to set plan term goals through the best strategy in health management is the benefit which I gain from Management and Leadership in Healthcare module. Moreover, studying Strategic Management in Healthcare will help me to foster innovation, facilitating change and achieving results in complex and competitive circumstances.

My professional background as a pharmacist. I signed a two-year contract with a health company as a pharmacist and a general manager. It was very interesting to me because I had to build the drugstore from the beginning. It took me four months to provide all the documents and deal with the government to get the license. As a new drugstore, it was quite difficult to compete with similar companies that have been existing and have a strong reputation. But I was able to compete with them by applying good management to handle all resources. I gained ultimate success in improving the public trust within ten months, so the patients who came for treatment increased drastically.

My next contract with other health company. It gives me the same position and job description as my previous job. However, it is more challenging for me because I am given full authority to manage the company. I optimize all the effort, arrange the resources and set the strategies to give the best services to costumers and patients, so that, the company makes a very good profit within less than 6 months, although it is located in developing area.

As I am driven my long-term dream to build new health facilities in my home island, I prefer working with new health companies because I want to learn and gain as much experiences as about how to build and develop a health company from the beginning to be successful one. Furthermore, I also built networking with other pharmacist, doctors and other health professionals even with the manager of the medicine company and medicine distributor. It gives me a huge advantage.

By having strong professional experiences and networking that I have built, and with new organisations and classmates that I am going to build in London, I am going to contribute to my home island by establishing a complete drugstore and a Primary clinic to help people achieve a better life. Thus I help the government to cover the rural area with high-quality services including the distribution of medicines and health equipment. Furthermore, it helps me to set the long-term program to be an agent to support the target in 2030 for Good Health and Well-Being in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) program on the remote island in southeast part of Indonesia

I consider myself to be the right candidate for this program because I am still young, energetic, high self-motivated person who is visionary, enjoy studying and working hard. Upon being selected for the program I will work towards attaining better grade, and this has been my performance throughout my education life.