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I started my career as a geophysicist in 2015 and since 2016, due to my leadership, interpersonal, detail-oriented and management skills strengthened when I was a teacher and observing the company leaders, I was entrusted the position of team leader in 96% of the projects I am involved in. As a team leader I have to make myself available to talk about office issues, plan geophysical surveys and borehole construction and coordinate with institutions.
In Zambézia District, I worked in a remote community called Mpariwa, where the inhabitants had to walk 9 km to a river to find water. As the last 8 km to the community were not accessible by car, we could not get there. To solve this problem, I began by identifying the actors involved (the community, my team, the drilling team, the community leader and the locality chief). The general problem statement was "How to arrive to Mpariwa, without damaging the vehicles". To show my commitment to the cause and get their allegiance, I drove to a safe spot and walked the remaining 8 km. I delegated to the locality chief the task of seeking funds to buy machetes, rakes and axes to ameliorate the road. With the community leader, we set up groups for cut the trees, collect the trees, remove the roots, level the road, transport stones to close holes and for cook. After all, the road was good enough for cars transit and we could get to the community, survey the area for potential aquifers, drill the borehole and give water to the community.
Leaders in an organization are often responsible for influence co-workers to adopt new behaviours, methodologies and strategies through example, training, workshops in order to enhance the quality and maintain competitiveness. In 2017 I felt the need to change the way we present boreholes' data and I decided to research for tools that could do that. When I shared the software with my workmates in February 2018, they were apathy with the suggestions and to inspire them to embrace my vision, I decided to make a workshop entitled "Tools used for 3D visualization of boreholes' data". In the workshop, with enthusiasm, I showed a draft of a report and explained how this new form to present data would elevate the professionalism of our reports. Then I explained the steps to use these tools to visualize the data contained in the report. At the end of the workshop, they were excited to create new models and they even suggested how we could improve the new report. With ebullience we produced the final report and the client approved it without reservation.
As integrant of the huge Chevening community, I will experience perspectives from different corners of the world, gain the ability to deal with different people, learn different leadership styles and consolidate my influencer skills to help me in the decision making process and get the best from my team and partners. Thus, I will contribute for Geophysics development in Mozambique.
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I started my career as a geophysicist in 2015 and since 2016, due to my leadership, interpersonal, detail-oriented and management skills strengthened when I was a teacher and observing the company leaders, I was entrusted the position of team leader in 96% of the projects I am involved in. As a team leader I have to make myself available to talk about office issues, plan geophysical surveys and borehole construction and coordinate with institutions.
In Zambézia District, I worked in a remote community called Mpariwa, where the inhabitants had to walk 9 km to a river to find water. As the last 8 km to the community were not accessible by car, we could not get there. To solve this problem, I began by identifying the actors involved (the community, my team, the drilling team, the community leader and the locality chief). The general problem statement was "How to arrive to Mpariwa, without damaging the vehicles". To show my commitment to the cause and get their allegiance, I drove to a safe spot and walked the remaining 8 km. I delegated to the locality chief the task of seeking funds to buy machetes, rakes and axes to ameliorate the road. With the community leader, we set up groups for cut the trees, collect the trees, remove the roots, level the road, transport stones to close holes and for cook. After all, the road was good enough for cars transit and we could get to the community, survey the area for potential aquifers, drill the borehole and give water to the community.
Leaders in an organization are often responsible for influence co-workers to adopt new behaviours, methodologies and strategies through example, training, workshops in order to enhance the quality and maintain competitiveness. In 2017 I felt the need to change the way we present boreholes' data and I decided to research for tools that could do that. When I shared the software with my workmates in February 2018, they were apathy with the suggestions and to inspire them to embrace my vision, I decided to make a workshop entitled "Tools used for 3D visualization of boreholes' data". In the workshop, with enthusiasm, I showed a draft of a report and explained how this new form to present data would elevate the professionalism of our reports. Then I explained the steps to use these tools to visualize the data contained in the report. At the end of the workshop, they were excited to create new models and they even suggested how we could improve the new report. With ebullience we produced the final report and the client approved it without reservation.
As integrant of the huge Chevening community, I will experience perspectives from different corners of the world, gain the ability to deal with different people, learn different leadership styles and consolidate my influencer skills to help me in the decision making process and get the best from my team and partners. Thus, I will contribute for Geophysics development in Mozambique.