Otdam
Nov 3, 2017
Scholarship / My leadership has significantly arose since my work as a project officer at the learning institute. [4]
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.
My leadership has significantly arose since my work as a project officer at the learning institute. On behalf of the leader of a project focusing on enhancing climate change adaptation in rural community, I am responsible in ensuring the project action plan is implemented effectively and efficiency in timely manner based on log-frame and budge plan.
I work focused on leading the project team consisting of a project assistant and a technical assistant to implement the work plan. First problem arose when starting to conduct a research at the project site. My team encountered a difficulty in applying participatory rural appraisal due to limited capacity and experience. We were complicated in designing research methodology whereas everyone had difference idea. As a newly leader, I used my previous research knowledge and experience to solve this problem. Firstly, I reviewed various researches related to our research and made the methodology which consisting of participatory rural appraisal tool and questionnaire. Secondly, I asked for a review from project manager and executive director. Finally, I took the result to discuss with my team. As a result, we can finalized the methodology in applying to the research.
I have applied this solution in conducting training needs assessment to identify soft-skill needs of water management committee. Getting the real needs of the committee is not easy since most of them are older people. My team aimed at using a suitable tool that will be effectiveness and efficiency but their idea focused on provincial level rather than commune level. Through my experience in commune level, I proposed a meeting among the project and management team to present my methodology that I adopted from previous assessments. The methodology was finally decided to use and we defined the real needs of water management committee.
Aside from my leadership, my influence skill has been applying along. The biggest problem in this project was to establish the village water management committee which mentioned above. It was a difficult situation to mobilize local people to be parts of the committee since they were mainly focusing on their agriculture activities. At that time, I was thinking of how to influence them to care about water management. I was working with my team to influence them with a clear massage based on our research findings. It is "water shortage is occurring due to poor management, not only by drought occurrence. To ensure the sustainability of water use, water management committee needed to be established''. Through conducting a few meetings, local people seemed understanding about their responsibilities for better water management in their commune. As a result, they actively participated in the activity and village water management groups were finally established.
This is just the starting point. To be a future leader, I must seek for education to strengthen my current knowledge and capacity. By studying in UK, I believe my capacity will be improve through its high standard and quality of education towards my future development work in my country.
MY LEADERSHIP & INFLUENCE SKILL
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.
My leadership has significantly arose since my work as a project officer at the learning institute. On behalf of the leader of a project focusing on enhancing climate change adaptation in rural community, I am responsible in ensuring the project action plan is implemented effectively and efficiency in timely manner based on log-frame and budge plan.
I work focused on leading the project team consisting of a project assistant and a technical assistant to implement the work plan. First problem arose when starting to conduct a research at the project site. My team encountered a difficulty in applying participatory rural appraisal due to limited capacity and experience. We were complicated in designing research methodology whereas everyone had difference idea. As a newly leader, I used my previous research knowledge and experience to solve this problem. Firstly, I reviewed various researches related to our research and made the methodology which consisting of participatory rural appraisal tool and questionnaire. Secondly, I asked for a review from project manager and executive director. Finally, I took the result to discuss with my team. As a result, we can finalized the methodology in applying to the research.
I have applied this solution in conducting training needs assessment to identify soft-skill needs of water management committee. Getting the real needs of the committee is not easy since most of them are older people. My team aimed at using a suitable tool that will be effectiveness and efficiency but their idea focused on provincial level rather than commune level. Through my experience in commune level, I proposed a meeting among the project and management team to present my methodology that I adopted from previous assessments. The methodology was finally decided to use and we defined the real needs of water management committee.
Aside from my leadership, my influence skill has been applying along. The biggest problem in this project was to establish the village water management committee which mentioned above. It was a difficult situation to mobilize local people to be parts of the committee since they were mainly focusing on their agriculture activities. At that time, I was thinking of how to influence them to care about water management. I was working with my team to influence them with a clear massage based on our research findings. It is "water shortage is occurring due to poor management, not only by drought occurrence. To ensure the sustainability of water use, water management committee needed to be established''. Through conducting a few meetings, local people seemed understanding about their responsibilities for better water management in their commune. As a result, they actively participated in the activity and village water management groups were finally established.
This is just the starting point. To be a future leader, I must seek for education to strengthen my current knowledge and capacity. By studying in UK, I believe my capacity will be improve through its high standard and quality of education towards my future development work in my country.