by Robin Cox | May 14, 2025 | coaching leaders, Coaching leadership, Employers, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Relationships, Resiliency, teachers
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” (George Bernard Shaw) I woke up one morning, and reflected on a global community in chaos, and experiencing so much unnecessary suffering, and wondered, ‘what if …?’ The...
by Robin Cox | Apr 30, 2025 | Coaching leadership, Mentors, Mentorship, Parents, Relationships, teachers, youth mentoring
How do you work through social media issues with young people? When I was living and teaching inAustralia, prior to my retirement, we had another teenage suicide linked to cyberbullying. People working in the field of mental health have pointed out, there might be...
by Robin Cox | Apr 24, 2025 | Coaching leadership, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Relationships, teachers
How did you deal with a wobbly situation when you were a teenager? How do you deal with wobbly situations today? Jack (18) was a talented sportsman, revered by the younger students. He was a student leader and led with a rod of iron. He battled to understand the need...
by Robin Cox | Apr 15, 2025 | coaching leaders, Coaching leadership, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Relationships, teachers, youth mentoring
How much do you value relationships? Can you remember the relationships you had when you were an adolescent? Did you belong to a small clique, or did you have a wide circle of friends? Or, were you a bit of a loner? Did you have a wise guide on the side, speaking to...
by Robin Cox | Apr 10, 2025 | Coaching leadership, Mentors, Mentorship, Relationships, teachers
Have you ever thanked the people who reached out to you and guided you towards reaching your potential? It’s a question I ask when I do mentor training, as there are so many people who have mentored others and they often have no idea how powerful their impact was on...
by Robin Cox | Apr 1, 2025 | Coaching leadership, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, teachers
Do you have teenage children? Do you teach or coach teenagers? Do you work in any way with teenagers? Some time ago, I heard that a young man I mentored in the late 1980’s had passed away in 2017. I don’t know what happened, and I am still saddened that Agrippa is no...
