Zoom Learning Process - Essay on Leadership and influence

Dear all, Please give me your feedback about this essay for Chevening Leadership Scholarship.

Essay on Leadership and influence - question for Chevening Leadership Fellowship

Question-

CHEVENING IS LOOKING FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE LEADERS OR INFLUENCERS IN THEIR FIELDS.

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 have been influential in my community and my leadership skills are evident in the following example.

I started working as a lecturer assistant at the University on March 3, 2020, a day after the first case of COVID-19 was announced in Indonesia. I teached for two weeks on campus in the Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine practicum subject. On March 17, 2020, my institution started distance learning due to the spread of the virus. From then on, the entire learning process is carried out online.

One of our campus program in the Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine courses is visit to the Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy Department also National Atomic Energy Agency (BATAN). I tought about the alternative solution so I asked for a replacement project of visitation that could not be done due to pandemic reasons into a webinar using zoom and inviting practitioners outside the institution. I faced the problem is that personal zoom or google meet have time limit and participant capacity while our students have more than 100 people.

My institution has not subscribed to Professional Zoom and finally I persuaded my supervisor and then made a proposal to the academic department and asked the campus to subscribe to a zoom with a minimum capacity of 300 participants which later can be used from all study programs and also can be used for various purposes. The goal of this webinar is that the students get the similar learning experience as visits to Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine department so that they will be produce scientific output as well as visitation program.

In early June 2020, finally our institution has subscribed to a zoom with a capacity of 500 people. At the same time, I was elected by my supervisor and colleagues as a team leader of this webinar project. To achieve this, I choosed a secretary to make Term of Refference and made a small group discussion. This webinar conducted in three series and invited 7 experts with professional backgrounds in the fields of Radiology, Radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, industry from Indonesia and overseas, and one expert who is assigned to IAEA Headquarters, Austria. I opened the webinar for free to all students not only at my institution but also all students from various degree programs from Sabang to Merauke. The event was success and participants who attended the three series of webinars were around 1800 students from all around indonesia.

Under my leadership role, i try to find something innovative and alternative solution to solve community problem trough the best action. As a new staff, i can influenced my supervisor and my institution about the importance of digital literacy which brought an impactful learning process and it can be accessed by so many students both inside and outside institution. I believe that leadership is the process of influencing people to understand, agree, and take an adaptive action on what needs to be done effectively to achieve common goals.

@anfau Please allow me to provide my feedback. In the second paragraph, kindly rectify tought toughtas taught. Also, you have written I faced the problem is that which is a wrong statement. Kindly rectify it. I would suggest you to please inculcate more areas of leadership as it is too vague for a scholarship like chevening.You are competing with millions of people you may have displayed extraordinary skills than you.

Hello anfau,

I think the way you employed the STAR method here is appropriate, but you might want to highlight the result more. So you became the team leader? Then move it to the first sentence of the paragraph.

I also found several grammatical mistakes, especially those related to the use of past tense. I suggest turning your spellchecker on. I personally use google docs.

Good luck with the application!

If you carefully review your presentation, you have not given a justified example of a leadership role. Rather, you have only proven that you are good at task delegation, which is not the same as being an influencer. You mistook your ability to delegate as leadership and the fact that you can assign people to the tasks, as influencing. Those are not related. Those are not the same. A leader shows leadership in a situation that either went of control or was out of control from the very beginning. An influencer is someone who sees a negative and successfully turns that into a positive. This essay does not reflect any of those abilities in its presentation and therefore, cannot be considered an appropriate leadership and influencing essay.