Components
Momentum Leadership Programme is made up of three components.
Leader Labs
Interactive sessions given by experienced moderators. The sessions involve experiential learning, lively discussions, short videos, case studies and Q&A focused on specific leadership qualities. Duration: 1 hour once a month.
Social Impact
Social impact empowers each participant to make a positive impact in the community. Each participant can choose which charity she would like to work with. Duration: 1 hour per month.
Mentoring
With the help of a mentor each participant sets personal goals to develop key leadership skills in their own lives. Duration: 20-30 minutes once a month, scheduled according to the availability of both mentor and mentee.
Our Mission
Each person has what it takes to be someone great. Momentum Leadership helps young women to unlock the potential that lies within them. It creates the environment for each participant to discover her capacity and gives her the tools to become her personal best.
We are committed to help young women aspire to have a deep, positive and lasting impact on people, the work place and society; to inspire leaders to work with a spirit of service and integrity.
Our mission is articulated in the programme’s content and carried-out by the young professionals who want to support young women in reaching their potential.
Momentum Participants
Number of teenagers who participate in the programme during the year.
Momentum Volunteers
Number of young professionals who give of their time to mentor or accompany Momentum participants during the programme.
Social Impact Hours
Number of hours given to helping different Charities impact in their community.
Leader Lab Moderators
Experienced professionals who volunteer to share their insights on leadership qualities in the workplace.
Leader Labs
THE POWER OF A TEAM
COMMUNICATE THE REAL YOU
DREAMS INTO REALITY
EMPOWER
THE POWER OF ATTITUDE
BUILDING TRUST
HELLO! IT’S ME!
PERSEVERANCE AND PASSION
Leader Lab Line-up 2017
Sep 20 | Clodagh Edwards
Oct 18 | Asun Gaytan
Nov 15 | Orlaith Carmody
Latest News
Resources | Highlights | Insights
Clodagh Edwards gives the first Leader Lab of 2017/2018
We kick-started the first Leader Lab of the year with Clodagh Edwards, CEO of Image Magazine. Held in Facebook Offices (Dublin), Clodagh gave a wonderful insight into our professional experience as CEO giving key ideas to get the most out of your job. She focused on three key ideas: Focus – the importance of focusing[…]
Croatia Social Project 2017
As part of year 1 of the programme, some Momentum participants went to Croatia to carry out a 10 day social project in Majur. The preparation of programme kicked off in April with a work session on what to expect in the project and the reasons why we volunteer. There were two other preparation days[…]
Deep Habits: The Importance of Planning Every Minute of Your Work Day
Cal Newport, a guru in time management for students, explains how planning is essential to ensure that you get things done. You need to plan ahead and block you time. He suggested a method called Time Blocking – which means dividing your page of your planner into two columns: on the left column, you dedicate two lines[…]
Citywise
We finished off this year with our social impact programme with Citywise. It has been an amazing year. Each month the Momentum participants gave an hour of their time to give interactive sessions on Leadership skills. There were two groups benefitting from this: the Junior Fast-track (4th-6th Class) and the Intermediate Fast-track (1st-2nd years).
Eat that Frog!
Eat that Frog is a short concise book on key ideas to achieve day-to-day. We have things to do: exams, essays, projects. Whatever it is: these things are either tadpoles or frogs. Tadpoles are the easy things that we are pretty happy to do: send an email, do some homework we are good at, go[…]