A section manager - My Chevening leadership essay a part of scholarship needs

I believe in my leadership

In 2017 August my organization (MAF Carrefour) has applied a detailed survey through a professional British third-party organization (McKinsey & Company) included several aspects; One aspect was managers' personality recognition, my personality type as per the test was "The Commander - ENTJ Personality", Talking about this among the 16 types of personalities; An ENTJ's primary concern is focusing on managing external circumstances with logic and discipline. Once this has been achieved, intuition and reasoning take effect. Psychologically ENTJs are the most natural leaders among the 16 personality types. This personality type will always relish the opportunity to take charge. ENTJs live in a world of possibilities, often viewing challenges and obstacles great opportunities to push themselves. They have a natural gift for leadership and never shirk from making decisions. Options and ideas will be quickly yet carefully reviewed. ENTJs are "take charge" people who do not like to sit still and allow life to happen around them.

Since I was a primary school pupil until the last year at the college I used to be elected as the class's student representative ending up being the college's students' representative at my last college year.

When I have taken this responsibility I went through many experiences but the one to be shared here is that all the college students which were more than 4000 students wanted to postpone the national final practical exams which already been scheduled one year in advance due to the insecure situation in the city of Mosul during ISIS war, I took the lead and had a speech to the students' audience asking them to assign this to me and I will do the negotiation with the higher management, I have been invited by the higher management to a meeting and I explained to them in a ten minutes speech and I could convince them that they will be taking the full responsibility if any student been hurt and student's safety is the first priority while our plans and schedules for exams come as a secondary priority, by comparison. This was enough to get what more than 4000 students needed.

On June 16th, 2014 around 30,000 people have escaped from the town of Tala'far (North Iraq) to the city of Sinjar due to the war, Same night I communicated with some people and I could get around ten volunteers to secure emergency needs to the families including food, beds and secure places to sleep. Within twenty days in a very fast reaction, I could secure and install more than 8 drinking water tanks, 30 WCs to serve around 10,000 IDPs with water and sanitation needs through personal communications and relations with NGOs.

Moreover, in my workplace, I started as a section manager, and within one year through my high performing and surprising results which were the highest in the country in terms of sales and bottom line I have been promoted to be head of a department being the first local and the youngest who been promoted to this level. In the next six months, I have been the general manager's DOA managing a store of more than 350 employees and capital of more than 3.5 Million USD and currently, I am the second man of the company.

One of the specific targets that I have assigned to my self for 2020 in coordination with my line manager is to give five to seven training sessions to enhance teams' leadership skills which been done by 80% till now.

I truly believe in my leadership and I have the feeling of responsibility towards the circumstances, people, and situations around me also I have the initiative sense to start up and get the things done.

Okay, you did well explaining your leadership personality based on a test that you took. However, there was no need to discuss your elementary years in such a short presentation in this essay. Additionally, giving a speech is not the same as leading a team, which is what the essay requires. Being an orator does not make you a good leader, it just makes you a good speaker. A good speaker may not be a good leader and vice versa.

For this essay retain the explanation of your leadership personality. Rather than discussing your primary school leadership experience, focus on the way that you led teams to help people fleeing the war in Mosul. That sounds really interesting and truly embodies your ENTJ personality. The problem is that your professional background does not really relate a leadership situation where your personality further stood out. You may wan to reconsider that. Use a conflict situation instead and discuss how your personality helped resolve the problem.

By the way, you cannot use a mix of present and past tense in this essay. All of the discussions take place in the past so stick to the past tense presentations. That way the reviewer will not be confused as to the time frame your experiences are taking place in. The last 2 paragraphs of this essay are unnecessary. You should replace it with a more recent leadership scenario instead. Then close the essay with a reference as to how your company has since recognized your leadership abilities through promotions, awards, or other notable presentations.