I have always demonstrated a high level of leadership in both academic and professional life

Leadership essay chevening

As a matter of fact Leadership to me is about having an effective role and leading a considerable and beneficial change.
I have always demonstrated a high level of leadership in both academic and professional life, as I am working as an agricultural engineer in the ministry of Agriculture, I have been chosen from my managers to organize the world food day in Country A for the first time.

I did not want this day to be such a routinely day but wanted to raise the awareness about the problems that encounter A food safety and sovereignty like climate change, rising level of sea water, diminishing of farms size and the consequences of political and economic problems that increased the gap between food production and consumption deliver the message of that we have to dedicate all efforts in all level to enhance Egyptian food safety , so I tried to build a bridge between all of this parts and to make it as a starting point for a prosperous collaboration between them.

I started preparation for this day which held at October18th in2017 at faculty of Agriculture A by forming a team of four of my colleagues it was divided into two committees under my leadership: public relation & marketing and advertising committee

I contacted faculties of agriculture and science in mostly of Egyptian Universities and announced for a competition for projects that support food production.
Food and Agricultural Organization(FAO) representatives, INJAZ, AlFadaly, Benaa Organization and a number of businessmen have attended the event and they participated in the judgment comity as well as the presence of media such as BBC Arabic, dmc , and CBC News with the presence of about 800 attendees from students and researchers, all of that happened in parallel due to the lack of time.

Actually, Three projects won in the competition from 15 projects and has been chosen to be funded, many channels of communication between researchers or students and the businessmen or Organizations have been opened, also the challenges related to food safety in A have been highlighted.

Now, we are working on producing the first ministry of Agriculture's Magazine which discuss different actions and tools could be taken or used to regulate and enhance food production and argue about the importance of foundation of a separate food authorization.

In fact the success of this event inspired me and proved that when you have persistence and confidence you could overcome any obstacles and reach your target.

Also, it gave me the chance to prove that women can produce positive change to her community, and play a very influencing role on societies fate, especially for the societies that is masculine dominated, like ours.

In the light of the above-mentioned example, I firmly believe that I have strong leadership skills that enable me to be chosen by Chevening. I am sure such skills along with those obtained in the UK, if accepted, will enable me to produce effective change to my country in the future.

@Marwa1992
Marwa, let me tell you my views on your essay;
The second and the last paragraph of yours is unnecessary. As for your skills I don`t think this essay will show your skills (my opinion) and why don`t you try to write how you manage to lead and influence your team in organizing this event with task you had done that will make the reader to understand as you are a leader and influencer too.

Marwa, in actuality, this is more of a networking essay than a leadership and influencing essay. Look at what you wrote about, you had to contact various groups and people in order to get participants for your event. Therefore, you networked more than you led and influenced people. A leadership and influencing essay focuses more on your professional leadership within the workplace and has very little to do with preparing events because you are not an writing a "how to plan an event" essay. You want to prove leadership and influencing skills instead. So you should develop a totally new essay that focuses on your leadership duties within the workplace and how you manage the team in an influential manner that always leads to a positive outcome for the professional goals.