I am a person who is always thinking big - Leadership Essay for Chevening Scholarship

thinking big

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.

(minimum word count: 100 words, maximum word count: 500 words)

I position myself as a person who always thinking big. It all started in final High School when I aspire to study far across the home; because I knew at that time I would have more opportunity to lead myself and to be able to expand the boundaries of my knowledge as well as experiences to grow.

To become a future leader, I am a true believer that it requires hard work, determination, perseverance, and positive attitude. I consider Leadership is a long process accumulation from demonstrating role as a Leader in every opportunity with the attitude I mentioned above. By "Long Process accumulation" I train myself to be able to get the soft skills to be a leader through Practical Learning Experiences.

17TH Years old me started a new life as a University Student in a little town called Jatinangor. I am glad that in my 3rd semester, I was given a chance to start knowing my passion through a project in the program "Global Youth Ambassador" which was held in Kocaeli, Turkey. As Indonesia representation, I work in a Social project focusing on Education and culture with students from all over the world in one and a half month duration. I become a teacher for Disabled Children in rehabilitation Center and Discussed world's Economic and political issues with another exchange participant. From living abroad, I gain new ability to live in diversity, open communications, and finding my new hobby to work towards development.

All those experience lead me to involve in International Youth Organization called AIESEC for the next two and a half year. AIESEC fits me in terms of its vision which "Creating leaders and give positive impact to the society". I put all my heart into a project because this was my privilege to create a project for the social cause and working with other brilliant future leaders. Even though I was junior in handling big conference, I was given a trusted to lead 18 people from various Universities in Bandung to run Indonesia Youth Speak Summit with Sustainable Development Goals Issues in National Scale. It was the Pilot Project in National, and it succeeded to invite 500 Young Leaders for becoming attendees, and amazing speakers; The Indonesian Government (Rizal Ramli, The Minister of Maritime Coordinator), International NGO (UNPF), Business Sectors, Startup (Go-jek), Entrepreneurs (Lookats Project). The Conference's aim was about to share their success story to applied SDG's issue in a variety of sectors. Behind those result, I have been through six months to see amazing growth process with my team in every hardship that I faced. I learn how to coach them, to be a facilitator, to be a problem solver, to be a good listener, to be able to know the SWOT of my team for them to give all their best talent but the most important things are to create an impact for society.

After that pace, I continue my journey to work for Indonesia Mengajar (NGO) and currently on the Ministry of National Development Planning. I go furthered to create the bigger impact because I am brave enough to do more for the world, as I feel every experience is a small step to reach my goals to become Future Founder of Startup in Tourism development.

Ratu, this essay is weak in terms of showcasing your leadership styles and influencing examples. Your essay is mainly focused on just enumerating implied leadership participation in various organizations and events. You have not convinced the reviewer at all that you participated in these activities as a leader and influencer in the field. The presentation that you have is too simplistic, almost to a high school going into college level of writing rather than that of a professional leader going into masters studies.

Content wise, this essay can use a tremendous amount of improvement. You need to clarify your presentation by offering actual samples of how you led and influenced in the events you mentioned, If possible, focus the essay on your latest leadership project within your profession. You are not really showing a progression from amateur to professional leader in this essay so you cannot convince the reviewer that you are a future leader and influencer in your home country.

Try to get ideas about how to improve your essay from the other samples here. That way you will also get a better idea as to how you can further improve your presentation in terms of actual skills related to leadership and influencing. There are many leadership and influencing essays available here to help inspire you.