Hi all, I'm planning to apply for Chevening Scholarship this year. Any feedback would be very appreciated. Thanks!
My leadership experience started when I was young. It was my parents who taught me to hold on three things of leadership values: manage, responsible and committed. It started with simple tasks. For instance, they kept on reminding me to make up the bed after waking up, to prepare the books for morrow's lectures, et cetera. These responsibilities became a starting point for me to have bigger responsibilities and commitments as I grew up.
During high school, I was a member of the student council where I got a chance to become a head of organization leadership training committee. Such an opportunity had given me capabilities to manage an event. A few years later, when I was in college, I was active in a music club and the student union. I became the head of an event organizer for campus's music event and the head of human resources division in Math's student union. These activities entitled me to manage a bigger team with bigger goals which were harder as I could really feel more pressure than my previous experience in event management. Those experiences had helped me to be more skillful on project management where I could be more responsible and committed to delivering the best result.
Months after college, I landed a job as a xxx-role in a management consulting company where I'm currently working at. Applying the three values of leadership in my work, I managed to deliver my best performance and deliver my work on time. In result, I have moved up the ladder by becoming a Senior xxx-role. In the beginning of my new role, I had an important deliverable for a client with a very tight deadline. I'd been appointed as a team leader who's responsible to make sure our work meets the deadline, also I had to manage junior xxx-role by ensuring the quality of their deliverables. I guided them to how to do the analyses, by explaining about the client, the context, the problem and the approach to solve the problem. It's very hard and exhausting, but I felt so happy since I knew that they were learned something through the process. In the end, I successfully delivered the result to the client on time. The client was very satisfied with our result and after the meeting, my manager was really impressed with my leadership performance. I was very happy with this experience because I made an impact not only for the client, but also for my team and my company. After that project, I've been given another follow-up project from the client and another responsibility as a second-line manager. Not only being responsible for team's work for deliverables, I also have to be responsible for career development of other junior team member. These responsibilities are very exciting and challenging for me as I must learn to manage both project and people. This ongoing experience has given me an opportunity to be a better leader in the future.
MY LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
My leadership experience started when I was young. It was my parents who taught me to hold on three things of leadership values: manage, responsible and committed. It started with simple tasks. For instance, they kept on reminding me to make up the bed after waking up, to prepare the books for morrow's lectures, et cetera. These responsibilities became a starting point for me to have bigger responsibilities and commitments as I grew up.
During high school, I was a member of the student council where I got a chance to become a head of organization leadership training committee. Such an opportunity had given me capabilities to manage an event. A few years later, when I was in college, I was active in a music club and the student union. I became the head of an event organizer for campus's music event and the head of human resources division in Math's student union. These activities entitled me to manage a bigger team with bigger goals which were harder as I could really feel more pressure than my previous experience in event management. Those experiences had helped me to be more skillful on project management where I could be more responsible and committed to delivering the best result.
Months after college, I landed a job as a xxx-role in a management consulting company where I'm currently working at. Applying the three values of leadership in my work, I managed to deliver my best performance and deliver my work on time. In result, I have moved up the ladder by becoming a Senior xxx-role. In the beginning of my new role, I had an important deliverable for a client with a very tight deadline. I'd been appointed as a team leader who's responsible to make sure our work meets the deadline, also I had to manage junior xxx-role by ensuring the quality of their deliverables. I guided them to how to do the analyses, by explaining about the client, the context, the problem and the approach to solve the problem. It's very hard and exhausting, but I felt so happy since I knew that they were learned something through the process. In the end, I successfully delivered the result to the client on time. The client was very satisfied with our result and after the meeting, my manager was really impressed with my leadership performance. I was very happy with this experience because I made an impact not only for the client, but also for my team and my company. After that project, I've been given another follow-up project from the client and another responsibility as a second-line manager. Not only being responsible for team's work for deliverables, I also have to be responsible for career development of other junior team member. These responsibilities are very exciting and challenging for me as I must learn to manage both project and people. This ongoing experience has given me an opportunity to be a better leader in the future.
