Scholarship / My positions as site engineer and as a member of the site management team [4]

Chevening Scholarship - Leadership Skills

The fundamental task of a Leader is to build and maintain a high performance team as Furnham said.
All the way through my life, I have confronted a chance to practice role of a Leader. I have experienced it as being leader of my class in my school life, as leader of school debate and speech team, being leader of every project and presentation team in university and as well as a family member. These opportunities helped me learn qualities of a leader. It taught me how to be a team member, best listener, attentions to details, patience, confident and disciplined. It helped me to understand that one must be realistic, not too optimistic.

Engineers are naturally developed as leaders and managers to lead the industry because it is the requirement of their job nature. I was hired as site engineer at my first job where I worked for more than one year. As a site engineer, I worked as team member with management and as team leader on site. Working as part of the site management team, I had to liaise with, and works alongside architects, construction managers, engineers, planners and subcontractors. As a member of management team, I had to liaise with client, consultants and planners and as a team leader at site, I had to coordinate with my team. This job required that I must have good qualities of a leader. I must have confidence, persistence and realistic approach about my work. I must have a vision ahead of my work to solve upcoming problems and meet my project goals. I used my leadership skill successfully to lead a team to achieve my project goals on time.

Currently, I am working as a member of project management team in National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK) which is a multinational organization. Here, I came across a wider range of technical persons that help me to prove and harness my leadership and influential skills on a daily routine basis.

As a family member, I am very first person who is a university graduate and an engineer. My education and career laid a path for many young's in my family towards higher education to refine their life quality.

With this experience in my career, I had worked both as a leader and team member. I have utilized my skills and improved them. I can say that I can work as leader with good achievements in my future. Therefore Chevening Scholarship will provide me a chance to move forward, acquire more knowledge, which I will bring back to my country for development.