Ruslan55
Oct 20, 2016
Scholarship / Chevening Leadership and Influence Question. Have a look, it would be very very nice of you. [5]
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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.
I've never wanted to be a leader. I've always thought that was someone else's duty - know the way, go the way and show the way. I was the youngest boy among my friends and in my class too. I've always thought there was someone who was elder smarter and better than me. I was wrong.
I didn't change my mind instantly. In many projects I was involved in I saw that people didn't want to take any responsibility. No one took a risk and no one knows the best. So people followed the most ambition ones, who were not always right. I didn't like it and after all felt I was wasting my time. I even thought to leave my study and that time my father told me: "If you don't like the options you have, create your own one".
He inspired me. Instead of complaining, I started to change what I didn't like. Leader is a team, so in my university I started to spend more time with people who were out of the crowd and could think different. Leader equals to team's experience. So we started to share our ideas and tried to find a way, how to make them real. Leader is ready to change anything. So were we. We didn't like that we study Chinese language using texts and vocabulary, which were dead already. We wanted to study modern Chinese language with hot topics and have real discussion with real people. We decided to change the format of Chinese language courses we had in the university. Leader is a result, which is achieved by the team. And we spent weeks to convince university let us start talk clubs and movie nights to make Chinese students and Russian students talk and make them overcome language and cultural barriers. Did we know that our idea would change to Moscow Chinese Club and people from all around Moscow join us to meet and talk? No, we didn't. We wanted to study Chinese culture better. And this idea brought us to completely new way of studying. I believe, Chinese and Russian students, who started as talk clubs members will become trustful partners in future creating connections between Russia and China. That was the first step on my way to understand I can inspire people to be better, do better and achieve goals. That helped me to run international student association when I started to study in Chinese university and that helps me to run projects during my internship in Chinese company now.
I am still asking myself if I want to lead people. And after all, I believe, I want to inspire them to choose their own way.
Hello, everyone. I know, there are a lot of people posting the same about the same scholarship. Hope, you have time and energy to read mine!
I spent days writing and editing the essay and finally found this source.
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.
I've never wanted to be a leader. I've always thought that was someone else's duty - know the way, go the way and show the way. I was the youngest boy among my friends and in my class too. I've always thought there was someone who was elder smarter and better than me. I was wrong.
I didn't change my mind instantly. In many projects I was involved in I saw that people didn't want to take any responsibility. No one took a risk and no one knows the best. So people followed the most ambition ones, who were not always right. I didn't like it and after all felt I was wasting my time. I even thought to leave my study and that time my father told me: "If you don't like the options you have, create your own one".
He inspired me. Instead of complaining, I started to change what I didn't like. Leader is a team, so in my university I started to spend more time with people who were out of the crowd and could think different. Leader equals to team's experience. So we started to share our ideas and tried to find a way, how to make them real. Leader is ready to change anything. So were we. We didn't like that we study Chinese language using texts and vocabulary, which were dead already. We wanted to study modern Chinese language with hot topics and have real discussion with real people. We decided to change the format of Chinese language courses we had in the university. Leader is a result, which is achieved by the team. And we spent weeks to convince university let us start talk clubs and movie nights to make Chinese students and Russian students talk and make them overcome language and cultural barriers. Did we know that our idea would change to Moscow Chinese Club and people from all around Moscow join us to meet and talk? No, we didn't. We wanted to study Chinese culture better. And this idea brought us to completely new way of studying. I believe, Chinese and Russian students, who started as talk clubs members will become trustful partners in future creating connections between Russia and China. That was the first step on my way to understand I can inspire people to be better, do better and achieve goals. That helped me to run international student association when I started to study in Chinese university and that helps me to run projects during my internship in Chinese company now.
I am still asking myself if I want to lead people. And after all, I believe, I want to inspire them to choose their own way.