Workshop design for essay writing and interview preparation of study-abroad scholarship application, learning from business-type leadership competencies of JUNG-ADLER-COVEY models

The Japanese government has promoted study-abroad of Japanese nationals for the last decade, while not small number of scholarship assessors and interviewers believe that Japanese students are too modest and poor in essay writing and interview for scholarship application to study-abroad. The study finds that Japanese students have not enough time and opportunities to make clear pictures of life-long plan and future goals throughout their detailed plan of study-abroad, besides their teachers and counselors provide not essential supports but more technical in these preparations. Comparison analyses also apply to Japanese students’ weakness to leadership and motivation models of JUNG, ADLER and COVEY in this project. It resulted in effective teaching methodology with statement exercise by team to improve Japanese students’ presentation skills and level of decisiveness in essay writing. It also found that comprehensive thinking and statement exercise are the key elements of mindset-training for Japanese students to picture their future image of success with clear wording