by Robin Cox | Sep 11, 2024 | coaching leaders, Coaching leadership, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, teacher, teachers, Uncategorized, youth mentoring
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Desmond Tutu, with whom I spent some time many years ago, has always been an inspiration and I love the quote above. All I have ever wanted to do was leave the world a better place — now for my children and grandchildren — than when I...
by Robin Cox | Sep 8, 2024 | Coaching leadership, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, teachers, youth mentoring
I switched the lolly from one hand to the other so fast my young granddaughter failed to see this. “Choose a hand!” I say with a mischievous smile. She points confidently at the hand that held the lolly. I open it. Empty. I open the other hand to reveal the lolly....
by Robin Cox | Sep 4, 2024 | Coaching leadership, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, Resiliency, teachers, youth mentoring
When you were a teenager, did you ever come across an adult who crushed your dreams? How did you react? What life lessons did you learn from that experience? Fortunately, all the people who nurtured me as a young person encouraged me to chase my dreams; through the...
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 | Apr 18, 2024 | Christian teachers, Coaches, Coaching leadership, Education, Family, Mentors, motivating teenagers, Relationships, Resiliency, Social workers, teachers, youth mentoring
Do you have a message of hope to share with the wider community? How do you respond when you watch the television news and you see helpless babies and young children injured by war, explosions, violence, displacement or through some other event beyond their control? I...
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...
