CHEVENING LEADERSHIP; I have always disliked mediocrity and have loved excellence in everything I do

CHEVENING IS LOOKING FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO WILL BE FUTURE LEADERS OR INFLUENCE IN THEIR COUNTRIES. EXPLAIN HOW YOU MEET THIS REQUIREMENT, USING CLEAR EXAMPLE OF YOUR OWN LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCING SKILLS TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER.

my various leadership positions

Leadership and influence to me has to do with the ability of a person to motivate other people to follow an idea or do things that would bring about the best result for their own benefits, and the benefit of others. It also involves helping people become the best of themselves towards the accomplishment of a common goal.

As an individual, I have always disliked mediocrity and have loved excellence in everything I do. This is why after series of regret of failing to take leadership positions when I could to influence things I decided to be deliberate in seeking leadership positions, since my graduation from the University.

Sequel to this I have held several leadership positions of influence and I will illustrate two recent cases during my Nation Youth Service in 2016/2017 at Kontagora Niger State.

September 2016, after series of, interviews and observation by then state and zonal executive. I was appointed as the new Zonal Evangelism and Drama co-ordinator of the Nigeria Christian Corpers fellowship (NCCF). I was by my ability of leadership, shared motivation and influence able to once again hold and revive the evangelism outreach of the NCCF at the zone, which has not been held for about three years due to lack of motivation and fund.

The outreach involves a weekend visit to a remote uncivilized village; the process required a lot of money to provide clothing and medical supplies, for the villagers.

Prior to my appointments as the evangelism zonal coordinator, I had built close relationship with fellowship members, so I was able to build great enthusiasm among other fellowship members with which I acquired the supports of various churches.

In January 2017, the outreach held with lots of fellowship members joyfully participating.

October 2016. Consequent open the election held at the Sustainable Development Goals Community Development Service Unit, I emerged the new zonal President for the Batch A 2016 set. Here I was able accelerate the community development activities of the unit which was not good enough. The activities were more of lectures and knowledge based but I decided to apply the theory of the 17th goal of the SDGs, emphasizing the need for partnership.

I first built motivation and interest amongst the unit members and I promised to secure a national certification of service for them, for the first time in the zone; this got them interested, as it will add color to their portfolios. I developed strategies to engage stakeholders to support the sustainable development agenda. By this, we become the first CDS unit to get public support for our projects. I used the generated fund to plan for sensitizations, which involved giving gifts at various places. I compiled and sent reports to the headquarters, which resulted to the promised certification for the members.

Owing to the success of my previous leadership positions, I was made a branch coordinator of my religious group and I have co founded a youth forum for the religious group as well.

Some of the grammar is off, leading to run-on sentences. Also, you talk in the first person too much and don't really set things up well. Instead of saying "to me" write "in my view" or something along those lines. Try to be less direct; at times it feels like you're yelling at the reader and forcing them to digest the piece, rather than allowing the work to flow and grow on the person. Besides that, the content is fine and I hope you receive the scholarship! :)

Emmanuel, we have a one essay per thread policy in this forum so you will only be getting one review from me for the leadership essay. I have to ignore the rest of the essays that you wrote because multiple postings are against forum policy and as such, will be deleted accordingly by the admin.

In this essay, if you cannot expand the discussion to illustrate your leadership and influencing skills, then you should not mention it anymore. I refer specifically to the Nation Youth Service that happened in 2016/17. In reality though, this being your most recent foray into leadership and influencing, you should be expanding upon that discussion more than the Nigeria Christian Corpers Fellowship and your being an Evangelism Zonal Coordinator. The second experience is detailed enough to prove leadership and influencing. The more recent one, has the potential to make a solid presentation in your essay. I suggest that you consider doing so.

The 2016 activity related to the Sustainable Development Goals project sounds promising in terms of your leadership and influencing skills as well. I strongly urge you to just use the aforementioned 2 projects in this essay. Revise it to sound more interesting and so that you can highlight your appropriate skills in the essay. With the word count freed up from the removal of the unimportant presentations, you should be able to easily accomplish this task.

@Arcmec
That's an interesting write up but you should mention how you revived the leadership forum. It's more about what exactly you did and not just saying your leadership qualities. Everybody is claiming to have leadership qualities but prove what exactly you did as a leader to successively achieve your goals.

@Akosuah
Thanks