Leadership & Influence Question
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: 100 words, maximum word count: 500 words)
I was born in Kolkata but raised in the northeast with people of a different culture. Learning their ways and adapting with them was difficult for me. But I accepted the challenge by being the class monitor during my school days. Thus I was introduced to leadership at a tender age and had to manage student grievances and fulfil class resources. Hence, I see leadership as placing others interests above yours. This belief led me to donate blood in voluntary blood donation camp organised by State Blood Transfusion Council, West Bengal.
Being a member of All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), while serving in Bank of Maharashtra, I took an active part in fighting for the rights of security guards in our bank, who were governed by a third-party security agency. Promoting sustainable economic growth and decent work for all is the need of the hour for increasing employment opportunities and reducing informal employment and our strike was a testament to that.
While in college, we had to give presentation in groups. In these activities, I used to establish an understanding with my teammates which led to the task completion. Following this interest, I authored several papers during 2015-19, which included a paper entitled ‘Gamification: a smart rejoinder to workforce happiness through discretionary effort’. The paper was co-authored by two more fellows, but I got the opportunity to present it in the International HR Conference on HR Trends 2030 organised by Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management. The conference was chaired by several dignitaries from the industry and the academic world. During my presentation I justified to my learned audience, the purpose of my paper. The chairperson further validated my point and gave valuable feedback. Lifelong learning opportunities and equitable quality education is a birth right of every human-being. Being a Chevening scholar I will enhance my learning opportunities and this in return will enable me to spread my experience in my country. Thus, inspiring and leading people towards quality education.
During my enrolment in Arena Animation for learning 2D-3D design in the year 2016 -17, I got an opportunity to represent my centre in Orbit Live 2017, which is an annual animation industry event held in Mumbai where delegates from several countries including UK, attended. I competed in the 3D Modeling category which needed dexterity with computer graphics software, cooperation amongst members of different ethnicity, decision-making for task execution and self-evaluation. This experience taught me cooperation both locally and globally among countries that made this event possible. This event turns out as a part of Sustainable Development Goal where developed countries aided a developing country towards better education. Chevening Scholarship will enhance my knowledge in revitalising the global partnership for sustainable development with its common objectives of strengthening global peace, security and governance and building public and civic leaders to reform and improve the same, thus increasing official development assistance.
The UK government’s international development funding related to Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Innovation and Reform is a key area I want to work on upon returning to my country and the Chevening experience will provide me the necessary skills and platform to showcase myself.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 231, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...he class monitor during my school days. Thus I was introduced to leadership at a ten...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, if, so, then, third, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 10.4138276553 221% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 24.0651302605 204% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 41.998997996 169% => OK
Nominalization: 37.0 8.3376753507 444% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2937.0 1615.20841683 182% => OK
No of words: 527.0 315.596192385 167% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.57305502846 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79129216042 4.20363070211 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.24968874331 2.80592935109 116% => OK
Unique words: 299.0 176.041082164 170% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567362428843 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 911.7 506.74238477 180% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 16.0721442886 149% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.8918342002 49.4020404114 156% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.375 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9583333333 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.83333333333 7.06120827912 26% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 8.67935871743 184% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.083346542703 0.244688304435 34% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0231975150878 0.084324248473 28% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0216395733041 0.0667982634062 32% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0486341468969 0.151304729494 32% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0142837682256 0.056905535591 25% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.95 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 176.0 78.4519038076 224% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.67 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.