Leadership and Influencing skills: Chevening is looking for individuals that 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.
Become a leader is neither about giving a great speech in front of people nor make a stunning plan programme. For me, a good leader is about giving a good example to other member and have a capability to manage people. I implemented this qualification when I was a leader in UNY Archery Club in 2015. This club established by me and some of my friends who also joined in campus archery organization. I run this club for almost 1 year and made improvement in some sectors. For example, opened training class, hired new coaches, and joined regional competition. I had difficulties at the first time, but finally I could handle it because I always discussed with other administrators and prepared everything.
As a new sport club, My first project was introduce this archery club in the public. I made cooperation proposal to share in some schools in Yogyakarta so we would have some students. It was me and two of my friends who come to school one by one to promote this club and spoke to the headmaster. Our first attempt was not good enough, because some schools rejected our programme.
We evaluated this procedure then tried other way by made an advertisement in social media. We made simple advertisement using picture that UNY Archery Club opened trial for people who want to learn about archery. From this way, we had first class consist of 25 students from children to adult. Since then, this club always had new students and finally we hired some coaches to help us. After 1 year, some children joined regional competitions and got some medals. Then in second year, in 2017, the name of club changed from UNY Archery Club to Selabora Panahan FIK UNY (Archery sport laboratory school). It was our team work that make this was happen. The club is finally legal and become under responsibility of Sports Science Faculty in Yogyakarta State University.
Because of my past experience became a leader in campus, now I could implement the skills in my work as a teacher and coach. For me, teacher and coach are also a leader. I should give good behaviour example for children, have good communication and capability to manage people. In the future, I want to inspire my students with my experiences, teach them about leadership and support their dreams.
implementing leadership skills at work
Become a leader is neither about giving a great speech in front of people nor make a stunning plan programme. For me, a good leader is about giving a good example to other member and have a capability to manage people. I implemented this qualification when I was a leader in UNY Archery Club in 2015. This club established by me and some of my friends who also joined in campus archery organization. I run this club for almost 1 year and made improvement in some sectors. For example, opened training class, hired new coaches, and joined regional competition. I had difficulties at the first time, but finally I could handle it because I always discussed with other administrators and prepared everything.
As a new sport club, My first project was introduce this archery club in the public. I made cooperation proposal to share in some schools in Yogyakarta so we would have some students. It was me and two of my friends who come to school one by one to promote this club and spoke to the headmaster. Our first attempt was not good enough, because some schools rejected our programme.
We evaluated this procedure then tried other way by made an advertisement in social media. We made simple advertisement using picture that UNY Archery Club opened trial for people who want to learn about archery. From this way, we had first class consist of 25 students from children to adult. Since then, this club always had new students and finally we hired some coaches to help us. After 1 year, some children joined regional competitions and got some medals. Then in second year, in 2017, the name of club changed from UNY Archery Club to Selabora Panahan FIK UNY (Archery sport laboratory school). It was our team work that make this was happen. The club is finally legal and become under responsibility of Sports Science Faculty in Yogyakarta State University.
Because of my past experience became a leader in campus, now I could implement the skills in my work as a teacher and coach. For me, teacher and coach are also a leader. I should give good behaviour example for children, have good communication and capability to manage people. In the future, I want to inspire my students with my experiences, teach them about leadership and support their dreams.
