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Full Name: Cheung Chin Ching Howard
Position interested: President
Year of study: Year 1
Course of study: Business Management
Phone Number (HK): +852 6611 2416
Phone Number (UK): +44 7387085484

Hi, I am Howard. I am a first-year Business Management student who is running for President of the Leeds Hong Kong Society. Since the moment I decided to study abroad, there has been a certain amount of stress and pressure that has kept me from enjoying my university life, not to mention the incoming freshers who have had their high school life disrupted by COVID, who I believe are having a more difficult time socialising and enjoying school life than we did. Being able to experience and understand the difficulties faced as a fresher allows our team to provide an exceptional year of events that can assist our freshers from Hong Kong in settling into their second home here in Leeds.

A leader, in my opinion, should be able to orchestrate a clear line of communication, build a strong team bond, and make critical decisions based on the efficiency and effectiveness of the outcome. Internally, as a leader, it is my responsibility to discover my team's greatest potential and assign tasks based on their strengths. With this approach, I believe our team's productivity and efficiency will be maintained at a high level. A leader should also strive to maintain close relationships with his cabinet and avoid internal and external conflict. Externally, a society president should be responsible for maintaining and expanding the society's social network. During my time as a subcommittee this year, thanks to the hard work and help of the current cabinet, I witnessed our society's influence and saw its potential in forging new relationships with universities and organisations. As a result, I have personally approached various HKSOC candidates from various universities in order to gain a better understanding of society's work and relationships, with the hope of establishing good relationships for future collaborative events.

Following my terms in Hong Kong as a house vice-captain, vice-chairperson of my business club, operation and management leader of the 2020-2021 NCUK university tour, and student representative promoting the NCUKIFY programme to Hong Kong universities. I am confident in my ability to manage and represent our society to the general public. According to what I've learned from my time in Hong Kong and as a member of a subcommittee, the ability to motivate teammates and listen to different points of view is critical to the success of our projects. Therefore, I will schedule meetings after each event to review our work and work out ways for us to improve for the coming events. I believe that with the right leadership and motivation, we can unite our community and foster a strong sense of belonging with our events.

If I am elected president, I intend to bring our community together by providing opportunities for them to interact with one another. For example, Orientation Day, Semester Dinners, Christmas Ball, Cheerleading, Vshow, etc. These events bring our community together and allows them to establish invaluable friendships here in Leeds. Externally, we want to keep and expand our collaborations with Hong Kong and other union societies through social events and friendly matches and maintain our influence by taking the initiative to these events. Following the removal of Covid restrictions in the UK, we anticipate that more freshers and previous year students will enter the country and that these series of social events will assist them in quickly building their social network. We would also want to demonstrate our support for students seeking work possibilities in Leeds by sharing relevant internship information and career advice to assist them on their journey. In the hopes that this demonstrates the work-life balance that we practise here and helps to rebrand our society as a more balanced society.
This is the end of my manifesto. Feel free to ask me any questions about my plans in the upcoming general meeting.