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Oct 14, 2018
Scholarship / Essay on my Leadership and influencing skills as part of requirements to win Chevening Scholarship [5]
Essay Questions: 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)
Answer :
As part of preparedness for leadership, I once was tasked with the burden of tutoring and bringing out the best in my younger siblings when there was the need to step up their school performance. During undergraduate study as a group leader in a group presentation, my group was ranked the second best among the 5 groups that helped the leadership skill in me. The group started on a low morale as the topic assigned to us was relatively a new topic without much information available. Members had just very little information presented from individual search and demoralized. As the leader, I strengthened members through motivation that the task was surmountable. I divided the group into two sub-teams each tasked on search for resources online and in the University Laboratory. I showed leadership by collating and harmonizing the resources sourced by me and the sub-teams into presentation form, which restored confidence in team members. My ability to facilitate communications and encourage feedbacks among in the group made our presentation a top notch. I presented the work to the admiration of everyone and the Course facilitator.
I was the leader of my undergraduate project teamwork. The research included experiments with animals (rats), which we were required to feed and administer drugs on for 8 weeks in a group of I as male with 3 females. Others were unwilling to help in the feeding of the animals and cleaning of their cages. I had to. I reached out colleagues at the Zoology department for the administration of drugs and feeding the animals. We required an instrument in the experiment on the animals from another department. It was arduous getting the instrument as an undertaking of replacing it with twice its type was required to which others were not ready to enter into. I did and my team could conclude our research. The study supervisor praised our efforts and promised to publish our impressive research reports.
My plan to study a medical/biotechnology related course at the United Kingdom was inspired by my realization that a deep and solid education is needed to have a critical understanding of the problems related to health issues in my country, Nigeria. It is my dream to devote of my life to the development of Clinical Health sector in my country and beyond. With the influences I have experienced through priority leadership, I am convinced Chevening scholarship will afford me greater opportunity to advance my budding potentials and be able to study to impact positively on the struggling Nigerian health system; the humanity as a whole; and inspire younger scientists globally. I am convinced of my readiness to satisfactorily live up to the offer of Chevening scholarship to the benefit of humanity.
MY LEADERSHIP ROLE
Essay Questions: 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)
Answer :
As part of preparedness for leadership, I once was tasked with the burden of tutoring and bringing out the best in my younger siblings when there was the need to step up their school performance. During undergraduate study as a group leader in a group presentation, my group was ranked the second best among the 5 groups that helped the leadership skill in me. The group started on a low morale as the topic assigned to us was relatively a new topic without much information available. Members had just very little information presented from individual search and demoralized. As the leader, I strengthened members through motivation that the task was surmountable. I divided the group into two sub-teams each tasked on search for resources online and in the University Laboratory. I showed leadership by collating and harmonizing the resources sourced by me and the sub-teams into presentation form, which restored confidence in team members. My ability to facilitate communications and encourage feedbacks among in the group made our presentation a top notch. I presented the work to the admiration of everyone and the Course facilitator.
I was the leader of my undergraduate project teamwork. The research included experiments with animals (rats), which we were required to feed and administer drugs on for 8 weeks in a group of I as male with 3 females. Others were unwilling to help in the feeding of the animals and cleaning of their cages. I had to. I reached out colleagues at the Zoology department for the administration of drugs and feeding the animals. We required an instrument in the experiment on the animals from another department. It was arduous getting the instrument as an undertaking of replacing it with twice its type was required to which others were not ready to enter into. I did and my team could conclude our research. The study supervisor praised our efforts and promised to publish our impressive research reports.
My plan to study a medical/biotechnology related course at the United Kingdom was inspired by my realization that a deep and solid education is needed to have a critical understanding of the problems related to health issues in my country, Nigeria. It is my dream to devote of my life to the development of Clinical Health sector in my country and beyond. With the influences I have experienced through priority leadership, I am convinced Chevening scholarship will afford me greater opportunity to advance my budding potentials and be able to study to impact positively on the struggling Nigerian health system; the humanity as a whole; and inspire younger scientists globally. I am convinced of my readiness to satisfactorily live up to the offer of Chevening scholarship to the benefit of humanity.