by Robin Cox | Sep 2, 2024 | Building strengths, Coaches, coaching leaders, Education, Family, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, Social workers, teachers, youth mentoring
What is it that tugs at your heart strings and wants you to interact with others? How do you express selfless love and care to those with whom you interact? These are questions I have often asked myself as I collated my research on the adolescent brain, and interacted...
by Robin Cox | Aug 25, 2024 | Building strengths, coaching leaders, Mentors, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, Resiliency, teachers, Uncategorized, youth mentoring
How easy do you find it to make friends or encourage others? Why do you value the friends you currently have? How prepared are you to encourage others? Are you a solutions focused person? Or, do you share more feelings of doom and gloom than expressions of joy and...
by Robin Cox | Aug 8, 2024 | Building strengths, coaching leaders, Education, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Relationships, Resiliency, teachers, youth mentoring
“Robin is dangerously ill,” my father wrote in his journal. At the age of nine, I was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw. I wasn’t told at the time that I had cancer, nor was I told that I only had a five percent chance of survival. My parents initially thought I had...
by Robin Cox | Jun 20, 2024 | Building strengths, Coaching leadership, Education, Mentors, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, Resiliency, teachers, youth mentoring
Encourage others to reach their potential and achieve greatness How important are your face-to-face relationships to you? In recent times I had the privilege of sharing mentoring thoughts with a relatively new mentoring program serving the area in which I used to...
by Robin Cox | May 6, 2024 | Building strengths, Coaches, coaching leaders, Employers, Mentors, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, Resiliency, teachers, youth mentoring
I am continually reminded of the importance of young people understanding that they are responsible for the choices they make each day; that every choice has a consequence and, if they are experiencing challenging times or abuse of any sort, they can choose to speak...
by Robin Cox | Mar 16, 2024 | Building strengths, business people, Coaches, coaching leaders, Coaching leadership, Employers, Mentors, Relationships, Resiliency, teachers, youth mentoring
While enjoying a cup of coffee, I was reflecting on the many leaders I have either worked under or met during the past five decades. Which were the leaders I had the most respect for? What specific management or leadership qualities or skills did they possess? A few...
