What is the Outreach Program?
The outreach program offers you an experience to interact with the next generation of talent in a structured, consistent, output-focused way that also gives back to our local community. We're seeking mentors for a group of teenagers who are building a business idea to pitch to a live audience. You will mentor students from students in
Kingswood Community College Dublin
during the program.
| Time | Action | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | Susan will arrive at Kingswood Community College | ||
| 08:15 | Susan will brief students for one hour about the event | ||
| 09.17 | Susan will leave students under teacher supervision to develop their business ideas | ||
| 11.30 | Manulife volunteers will arrive at Kingswood Community College | ||
| 11.55 | Susan will facilitate the mentorship between Manulife volunteers and students | ||
| 14.10 | Susan will finish the event inline with the end of the school day and debrief with volunteers |
The Activity Plan
12:00 Introduction to Mentors
Introduce yourself, and answer the following questions; What job do you do? What is your favourite part of it? What is your greatest strength and weakness?
12:10 Creative Thinking with AI
Lead a creative thinking session around business ideas. It's a good idea come up with questions to get to know each group's business idea using Chat GPT for prompts.
12:20 Fishbone Activity
Help a group consider the geographics, psychographs and demographics of their business idea using the fishbone activity in Money Matters.
12:40 Marketing Plan
Give guidance to a new group shape their marketing plan including channel, budget and conversion rate.
13:00 Financing A Business
Critique a new group's financial plan including expected sales, costs, profit and reinvestment with the benefit of experience.
13:15 Practice Makes perfect
Let a new group run a dress rehearsal of presenting the business idea and offer some suggestions for how they have improve.
13:30 Pitch Perfect
Listen to each group present their business idea and participate in a highly interactive Q&A as the audience puts the business idea to the test.
14:00 Feedback Session
Share your feedback with us using MentiMeter so that everybody can learn more from your provide feedback about your experience.
14:10 Closing With A Smile
Enjoy a great start to your week-end as you consider the impact of the day, the event ends on time and we debrief about the initiative.
Simple & Effective Support
Mentor Training Recording
The recap of our training event for those that wish to review your experience.
As mentors we are able to share our knowledge on our careers, passing on the tips that we’ve picked up along the way to help shape the futures of these students.
Keeva McCarthy
Mentor, Pfizer
Kingswood Community College
Kingswood Avenue, Kingswood, Dublin, D24HYN2
Susan Hayes Culleton - Facilitator
(353) 86-1003948
susan@hayesculleton.com
Róisín Ní Dhonnagáin
Teacher
Kingswood Community College
1. A teacher will be present at all times
2. We will use photos on social media
