Leadership And Influencing Skills To Become A Leader

Chevening is looking for individuals that 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: 50 words, maximum word count: 500 words)

I would like to start my essay with Warren Bennis’s quote “The most dangerous

leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership.

That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”

This quote explains my path towards becoming a leader. I was raised up in the

years of my country’s’ establishment after it took its independence from Soviet

Union. Surrounding was communist
The wisdom itself was not sufficient element

to be a leader and throughout experiences I have been to, I have developed

important qualities in my character: confidence in my abilities, trust in my

judgments, faith in taking difficult decisions, creativity in my projects, inspire

coworkers, positivist attitude during communication and open-mind within

teamwork. In achieving and strengthening these abilities have started at my

early ages. When I entered to primary school, I took responsibility of class

representative. I was involving in lots of events in its organization, presentation,

instruction and importantly, control over the whole process. Additionally to that,

I was conducting tutorials to my classmates who had poor academic

performance. Moreover to the academic life, I was and am actively doing sport,

more precisely taekwondo and soccer. I have won I,II and III places at regional

and republican contents. Also, school soccer team manager decided to take me to

squad at early age, which inspired me to further development my goalkeeper

abilities. For my further development I have had to progress. Later on, my

relatives suggested me to enter to special college for gifted boys. It has
At the last college

years I was selected to be director of student activities. The main reason of that

was my strong communication and networking skills. I could handle with

students as well as with college stuff very well. The duty on me was well done.

My team and I pushed so hard to create creative projects as a result, we have

done several projects such music content in a new format, debate tournament

whose winner was sent to regional championship, scientific weeks of college

subjects, sport and pleasure activities. With gained experiences and relying on

my networking skills I took responsibility of to be representative of Kazakh

students in Istanbul. Even if it had its troubles I had never give up because in my

personality I can’t let people down, I don’t have fear of facing with troubles. To

be precise convicting one of a local businessman to support financially led to my

first organization of the welcoming party. Apart from this, I managed to do part-

time job to prove my family that I am no longer in need of their financial support.

A small company of 15 workers producing amusement electrical mini train