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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.
Learning from others' experiences is good but going where no one else has previously gone is surely better, so a new path could be left. This concept has taught me to always examine what is new to find the appropriate ways to solve problems even if sometimes it could be seen difficult, not just to improve my environment but also to serve as a guidance to positively influence and support others into understanding and accepting what is required to be successfully accomplished in order to achieve the desired results.
Therefore, as per my work in Life Operations Department at --- , we are responsible to apply many different tasks, and because of the multitude, some conditions or steps might be hard to be recalled at time of applying the task which may cause wasting time by postponing the task or applying it incorrectly which will lead to serious troubles for the employee and the company.
So, I had to find a way to solve this problem and I could reach a valuable idea, which is gather all the required data, information, conditions and the announced standards of each task performed by the team in one place. So, a clear and accurate Business Reference for all missions and tasks performed by the team is my next goal. I informed my manager with the suggestion, he agreed and I was charged to complete this mission in a very short determined time. Immediately I communicated with my team that consists of six members and explained it to them minutely. After our discussion, I have distributed the tasks and gave them deadline. During this time, I asked them to send me any progress they reach to follow-up and review the accuracy of the provided data. I was always reachable for any member to ask freely and provide support if needed.
I have faced two main difficulties, first I am the youngest member in the team, so it was not easy to lead them and let them accept to be supervised by the youngest one. Second, each one of the team is working in a different branch so I was supervising them remotely. However, I could successfully spread the spirit of high motivation among the team members and that was my key of success as they have finished the required tasks before the deadline. After intensive review from my side of the accomplishment as a whole, I have provided the Business Reference to my manager before the time he has previously determined. This reference had been distributed to the whole department as well since it became a helpful tool that save much time and could be used for the current and new hired employees.
My past experience reveals my ability to succeed as leader and as follower in any given responsibility, as an individual or in a group, with high spirit of commitment and leading no matter the difficulty involved.
Chevening Scholarship Essay: Leadership Question
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.
Learning from others' experiences is good but going where no one else has previously gone is surely better, so a new path could be left. This concept has taught me to always examine what is new to find the appropriate ways to solve problems even if sometimes it could be seen difficult, not just to improve my environment but also to serve as a guidance to positively influence and support others into understanding and accepting what is required to be successfully accomplished in order to achieve the desired results.
Therefore, as per my work in Life Operations Department at --- , we are responsible to apply many different tasks, and because of the multitude, some conditions or steps might be hard to be recalled at time of applying the task which may cause wasting time by postponing the task or applying it incorrectly which will lead to serious troubles for the employee and the company.
So, I had to find a way to solve this problem and I could reach a valuable idea, which is gather all the required data, information, conditions and the announced standards of each task performed by the team in one place. So, a clear and accurate Business Reference for all missions and tasks performed by the team is my next goal. I informed my manager with the suggestion, he agreed and I was charged to complete this mission in a very short determined time. Immediately I communicated with my team that consists of six members and explained it to them minutely. After our discussion, I have distributed the tasks and gave them deadline. During this time, I asked them to send me any progress they reach to follow-up and review the accuracy of the provided data. I was always reachable for any member to ask freely and provide support if needed.
I have faced two main difficulties, first I am the youngest member in the team, so it was not easy to lead them and let them accept to be supervised by the youngest one. Second, each one of the team is working in a different branch so I was supervising them remotely. However, I could successfully spread the spirit of high motivation among the team members and that was my key of success as they have finished the required tasks before the deadline. After intensive review from my side of the accomplishment as a whole, I have provided the Business Reference to my manager before the time he has previously determined. This reference had been distributed to the whole department as well since it became a helpful tool that save much time and could be used for the current and new hired employees.
My past experience reveals my ability to succeed as leader and as follower in any given responsibility, as an individual or in a group, with high spirit of commitment and leading no matter the difficulty involved.
