A Note From David Hng [Admin]

Please be informed that I am currently putting up some news on The Momentum Project [T.M.P] and AIESEC. This is due to the common language [English] shared between T.M.P, AIESEC and Speak In English.

Reading articles like the ones I posted could actually widen up your vocabulary and knowledge. Words like “momentum” have been heard and used but more than 40% of readers barely know the exact meaning of the word itself. A dictionary would come in handful in times like this.

Hope you readers enjoy your stay and make every minute worthwhile.

David Hng

p/s – Are you dreaming or are you living your dream? It’s up to you!

What The Momentum Project Can Help Your Company or You?

This article is taken from David J. Pollay’s The Momentum project website. Visit the website here on www.themomentumproject.com

Level I Program: Positive Psychology, Momentum, and Strengths-Based Development

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Positive Psychology is a science. It is concerned with research and testing. Leaders in business learn about the powerful applications of Positive Psychology. They learn to tap into the three principles behind the science of Positive Psychology: (1) How to tap your Positive Emotion to be your best self (creative, curious, grateful, hopeful);
(2) How to engage your Top Strengths in your career, and partner to manage your Lesser Strengths; (3) How to achieve meaning in your work and life. Successful business leaders want well-founded and tested strategies for increasing performance. We focus on proven approaches to success in our workshops. The Level I Program blends scientific research with real-world experience, hands-on exercises, and engaging teaching. You will increase your performance and success as a result of participating in the Level I Program. Time Investment: 4 hours (condensed) to 8 hours (complete) Level II Program: ADAPT Strengths Model™ of Leadership Development The second pillar of Positive Psychology focuses on how we use our most natural strengths to achieve our greatest and most gratifying successes in life. Most people focus their life on simply building skills to accomplish their jobs. The best leaders know this approach is incomplete. They focus instead on bringing out their top strengths, developing them, and maximizing their use in support of the outcomes they are determined to achieve. Then these leaders turn to skill building to complement their natural power. They start with strength, and then add skill. The Level II Program takes leaders through the ADAPT Strengths Model™ of Leadership Development. The intention of this program is to help leaders become more aware of their strengths, develop them, apply them to their work, partner with others to amplify their strengths, work around their lesser strengths, and then implement this same methodology with the teams they lead.Level II blends scientific research with practical experience, hands-on exercises, and engaging and memorable lessons. Level II also includes one personal coaching session during or immediately following the program.Time Investment: 8 hours Level II Program: Positive Psychology Momentum Development You experience Momentum when opportunities related to your passion in life appear faster than you could have imagined. You catch yourself saying, “This is the most fun I’ve ever had!”The challenge is how do you keep this momentum and live your best possible life. Many people cannot handle Momentum. They are wildly excited about the new abundance in their life, but are afraid of this new level of performance. They feel as if they are on a wonderful amusement park ride, but they are overwhelmed with an urge to jump off before it does something they are not expecting. Before they know it, they’ve hopped off the ride in order to return to solid, familiar ground. Most of the time they are not even aware that they chose to leave the ride. They just wake up months or years later saying, “What happened? I was on such a roll.” Most of us have experienced this at some point in our lives. The good news is that for that small percentage of people who truly want to live their best possible life, maintaining momentum is possible. The power of positive momentum allows you to achieve your goals more efficiently, in less time, with less effort, and without negative stress. You are challenged, but not stressed. You have people and processes set up around you to help keep you securely on the great ride you are on. When you have the right support and focus, momentum will carry you to achieve your dreams. Leaders go through “THE KEY TEST™” of Momentum Model during this program. They learn more about the components of momentum building and maintenance, their momentum level at work is assessed, and they go through personal exercises to build their momentum plan. Positive Psychology research underpins the power of this program. Time Investment: 8 hours 12 Month Follow-Up Programs Leaders know that effective self-development continues after a workshop ends.We must commit to the follow-up of a program in order to achieve the behavior change we seek. The question is do we go it alone, or do we partner with someone to help us successfully navigate our new path? Most world class professionals seek additional coaching and support. They do not go it alone.We provide both coaching and commitment support through our 12 month follow-up development and accountability programs. Each program has three participation options: Group Accountability and Development conference calls, comprised of leaders from numerous organizations. Same Company and/or Same Team conference calls. Individual Calls with a Momentum Project Coach. Positive Psychology Applications Follow-Up Program The research continues to pour in about the importance of increasing positive emotion in our lives, engaging our strengths, and discovering meaning in our work. The twelve-month follow up program is designed to help people deepen their knowledge of Positive Psychology and its tested applications in business and in life. The focus is on helping people apply cutting-edge research to their lives in business and at home. Strengths-Based Development Follow-Up Program Each month we provide a Positive Psychology-based Strengths Development learning module for leaders in business. Each module includes a powerful exercise focused on helping leaders further develop and apply their strengths in their career. The target of each module alternates monthly between self-development leadership exercises, and team-based applications of strengths-based development. Momentum Development Follow-Up Program We also run the monthly Positive Psychology Momentum Development follow-up program. Each module helps leaders further build and sustain their momentum. The focus of each module deepens the work of the previously explored ten-component “THE KEY TEST™” of Momentum Model.

David Hng

The Momentum Project

David J. Pollay as taken from his company’s website.

Visit www.themomentumproject.com

David J. Pollay is the founder of the Momentum Project, an organization whose mission is to help leaders and their organizations build and sustain powerful momentum in order to achieve their goals. The promise of The Momentum Project is to enable leaders to mobilize their teams to reach levels of performance never before achieved. The Momentum Project fulfills this promise by teaching leaders how to put into practice the principles of Strengths-Based Positive Psychology Leadership Development.Mr. Pollay has led, spoken to and trained thousands of people in his career, and has personally managed hundreds. His roles have ranged from chief executive officer to sports-team captain. Mr. Pollay is best known for his focus on developing and utilizing the best talents and strengths of his employees and those in his client organizations.

Mr. Pollay is launching the Young International Leaders Organization (YILO) in Applied Positive Psychology in 2006. YILO is dedicated to bringing the cutting-edge research of Positive Psychology to young leaders worldwide. YILO’s membership will include leaders from every country around the globe. YILO’s vision is to help Young Leaders shape a world in which people’s strengths are valued and applied, and lesser strengths are overcome through partnership. Martin Seligman Ph.D, Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, former president of the American Psychological Association, and co-founder of Positive Psychology; Christopher Peterson, Ph.D, world-renown Strengths Researcher, author, and professor at the University of Michigan; and Karen Reivich Ph.D, acclaimed Resilience Researcher, author, and teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, are three outstanding YILO advisors.

Prior to founding the Momentum Project and his work with YILO, Mr. Pollay was the director of Learning and Development at Yahoo! Inc. in Sunnyvale, California. He introduced and led Yahoo!’s first management development program, working with the president and chief financial officer. Mr. Pollay was well known for helping leaders and managers increase their performance through focusing and developing their employees’ talents. His team, known as the Yahoo! Talent Channel, was responsible for providing training and new-hire orientation to employees worldwide.

Mr. Pollay joined Yahoo! in May, 1998 to initiate and develop Yahoo!’s Customer Care organization. He was successful as an early advocate for internet companies to provide outstanding service to their customers. Reporting to the president, Mr. Pollay rapidly built a team of more than 130 associates worldwide, with an infrastructure capable of supporting customer service via email and telephone in more than 10 languages. His team responded to nearly one million emails and phone calls per month. Known company-wide for developing talent, Mr. Pollay helped promote forty of his Customer Care associates into roles in marketing, sales, legal, and operations.

Prior to Yahoo!, Mr. Pollay directed the Atlanta-based Customer Service Center for Global Payment Systems, a subsidiary of National Data Corporation in Atlanta. He served in leadership roles at MasterCard International in New York, including director of planning and administration for MasterCard’s Automated Point of Sale Program (MAPP), the most profitable division of MasterCard. Mr. Pollay was also president and chief executive officer of AIESEC in the United States, the largest student-run business exchange program and management development organization in the world. He was recently inducted into the AIESEC International Alumni Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Agra, India. Mr. Pollay was also honored with his selection to chair the ten-day AIESEC Annual International Congress, an event held this year in Warsaw, Poland, and attended by 800 leaders from more than 100 countries.

Mr. Pollay is a graduate of Yale University with a B.A. in Economics. He holds a Master’s degree in Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania, the only post-graduate program of its kind in the world. He is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and was recently chosen to serve as the first president of the MAPP alumni association. He has completed research on the “Strengths Profiles of Leaders in Organizations” and presented his paper at the International Positive Psychology Summit in October, 2006. Mr. Pollay directs the Momentum Leadership Program at the Village Academy, an inner-city elementary school in Delray Beach, Florida. The program teaches the principles of Positive Psychology Leadership Development to emerging leaders in the 6 th and 7 th grades.

Mr. Pollay is a weekly columnist with The Boca Raton News, and a monthly columnist with the Boomer Times & Senior Life. He resides in Florida with his wife Dawn and their two young daughters, Eliana and Ariela.

David Hng