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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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 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[…]