I am fully trusted in my skills, that exceed Chevening requirements for leadership and influencing

Chevening LEADERSHIP & INFLUENCE QUESTION

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I am fully trusted in my skills, that it will exceed Chevening requirements from leadership and influencing skills point of view.
I had practiced countless group leading tasks and each time I led to the success, I have no borders for the ideas. I love to dream but I adore touching my dream reality. And believe in my motto ''Success is sharing - happiness is sharing''

Leaders mostly had born leaders, with many stories showing their leadership skills in all life aspects and how it grows day by day and become smarter.

I will give more focus to my work related professional leadership skills arranged in historical manner.
In 2005, two years following my employment date as a quality control chemist in a pharmaceutical company quality control department the head of lab had decided to resign without a notice period, We had worked for a couple of weeks with a direct reporting to the plant manager then he had promoted me to act as head of lab.

It was challenging, three of my colleagues were of longer experience period, and this made my first focus in building team spirit and establishing excellent relationship between my team members. As a first step, I called them for a meeting to brain storm about lab development and intended to make the final proposal mixing all suggested ideas and I had assured in my closing talk about the benefits of complementing each other.

Next meeting, we had agreed that all of lab staff will take the responsibility of lab deputy manager on one week job rotation basis. They loved to act this role and I loved to delegate smartly. Few months later, other departments started to apply the same idea with modifications.

In 2007, I started my private business with three friends; they thought it was too early, but I was trusted in our capabilities, we had launched a toll manufacturing pharmaceutical company, named JASPER. My partners had promoted me for the position of general manager due to their believe in my leadership skills and experience; we had made a long-term plan until 2017 and worked hard to achieve our goals in time. I had identified required functions and assigned each one to a responsibility. Three years later and before planed date we had introduced our first product to the market in cooperation with well-established co-marketing company.

In 2014, I got a recommendation from the central authority for organization and administration to join the national nuclear authority. I completed my PhD thesis in January 2017 with main topic about the radiation protection new updates and applications. I had invited a group of researchers working in the nuclear authority with bio-chemical background to make a research project within the scope of radiation protection to cope with the currents governmental measures to extend the dependence in the nuclear energy. The research group had composed draft protocol covering several important topics related to workers health and environmental protection and are planning to submit it for approval by the end of 2017.

I am afraid that you will have to revise the whole essay. Most likely, you will have to write a new one that is better focused on the requirements of the prompt. Your first 3 paragraphs are nothing but endless word fillers. Chevening reviewers have to study the application of at least a hundred applicants per day. They do not have the time to waste wading through your useless babble about what you think leadership is and why you think you qualify for the scholarship. Such wordy essays do not get far as far as the reading of the essay is concerned. Go direct to the point. Start with the year 2005. Clarify what your position was on the team that led you to become the leader after the resignation of the head of the lab. How did that previous position prepare you to take on the leadership role? Now, I read the presentation and I got that you did a good job as a leader. But where was the inlfuencing skill in this instance? Was there any opposition to your becoming the acting lab head? How did you overcome that? Responding to these 2 questions will create the influencing paragraph for that work situation. As per your private business. This does not really sound like a leadership role because of the constant reference to "we" in the paragraph. There is no "we" in leadership, however, there is a "we" in influencing, which again, is missing from this presentation. Leadership cannot exist without influencing skills. Please remember that. The two always go hand in hand in actual experience so these must be depicted as partners in your essay as well. Remove the 2014 Phd thesis discussion. That is not a real leadership experience to speak of. Nothing that you discussed in it required you to lead the group nor influence them. You only set up the presentation so it does not count as leadership and influencing experience.