To be a good leader for other people, we have to be a good leader for ourselves.

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Chevening is looking for individuals who 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.

my dominant trait

Since I was a child, I've been realizing that my introvert trait is dominant. I found it hard to speak to the stranger and to the public, even just for a presentation or a speech in front of the class. I considered myself as a shy person, until then, when I was in my senior high school, I completely realized that I need to develop my personality in terms of courage, communication, and the most important thing, leadership skill. First of all, I knew that to be a good leader for other people, I have to be a good leader for myself. So my first step was to lead myself to be more open, to have more courage, and to take any opportunity that could develop myself to be a better speaker, to be a good leader.

For me, to be a good leader is about how to motivate, influence, and the most important thing is how to develop other people. As I mentioned before, I've never had any official leadership experience relating to any project, up until my study in the university. When I was in my college, I realized that I need to gain experience as much as possible, as well as develop my soft skills. I started to join many student committees, student board, as well as student club I was interested in during my college. The most memorable part is when I was being a chairman of a student committees relating to a cultural project. We had such a hard condition due to shortage of funds, but I persisted to motivate my team and keep up their hope that we could get more sponsors to fund our project. I influence my team to keep connecting with companies until the end of the projects. I felt that we have that same hope and the same vision to keep motivated. Eventually, at the injury time, we could get enough funds from our sponsors to run our project.

Apart from that experience, I also joined university marching band group where I've gain my experience related to developing people around me. It was a hard time for us due to the Grand Prix Marching Band competition. We practiced so hard, and there were these three freshmen in my trumpet team. Eventhough I was not the team leader of trumpet, I was actually their senior due to my experience as trumpet player and a prior member. I tried to give advices to the junior, how to be a good team member and a good trumpet player, as well as keep them motivated due to our hard practices, which were almost every day. This marching band-related things have a significant effect in boosting my experience and soft skills, particularly in team-work and developing people. What I learned from this experience is, to be a leader, we're not necessarily be the team leader. It's all about what we have and what we do to develop and influence the other to be a better version of them.

Hello! I like your examples here, but I'm not convinced by you because I didn't see specific reasons that are strongly related to leadership. I think you can try to change the way writing your examples and make your examples more related to the personality you mentioned.

Gayo, if you know that you do not have any leadership experience, then why are you applying for Chevening? You do know that since you do not fit the profile for the applicant, your application will not make it past the screening round right? Chevening is looking for current leaders and influencers in your country who can become even better leaders and influencers after studying in the UK. What makes you think that you can apply without having any qualifications to get into the program? Exactly. Everyone who is applying will be highly skilled, qualified, and current leaders and influencers in their respective fields. Your essay does not even come close to the weakest applicant I have seen so far in this cycle, who has leadership and influencing qualifications just the same.

You need to show that you are some sort of leader in your field of work. You can start by changing the essay to discuss the college leadership experience that you had based on the cultural project. Talk about how you led the team through any difficult situations that might also show how you influenced the team to perform. It sounds like that part of your narration has potential. The problem is, it isn't strong enough for the presentation. You still need either a community or professional based leadership example to prove you are what Chevening is looking for in a future leader and influencer in your country. At the moment, I don't see that at all.

The base of your essay is all wrong Gayo, the start is weak. The main focus should be how you've displayed leadership skills in the past. you should give examples of your leadership skills not narrate how you started to understand the importance of leadership. i;d also advice you use a systematic writing approach as well, eg. STAR approach