by Becky Robinson | Jun 11, 2013 | Marketing
Our web design/development team is wrapping up a new website this week for a special friend and client, Erin Schreyer. (As soon as she’s ready to unveil the site, I’ll share a link!) We’re excited for her — it’s a beautiful site — and...
by Becky Robinson | Jun 7, 2013 | Leadership
I received an email from a friend yesterday who talked about her desire for — and difficulty finding — a mentor. I don’t have any formal mentors in my life, ones I meet with regularly and have agreements and goals with, but I do have several people who build...
by Becky Robinson | Jun 6, 2013 | Leadership
Sometimes we have to be willing to tell the truth, even when it’s difficult. For that reason, I am grateful to two valued friends (team members) who recently told me that our business tends towards chaos. In doing that, they each became mentors to me in those...
by Becky Robinson | Jun 3, 2013 | Leadership
In the same way that middle-aged adults are often in the sandwich generation, balancing parenting growing families with caring for aging parents, I lately feel like I am smack dab in the middle of a mentoring sandwich. I am mentoring others (sometimes more...
by Becky Robinson | May 29, 2013 | Inspiration
You are not a failure. Those voices in your head are vicious — I know, because I have battled them myself. The whispers of self-doubt, the feelings of not measuring up, the belief that you can never do enough. They’re lies. The truth is this: you are enough....
by Becky Robinson | May 24, 2013 | Social Media
I give my clients a lot of advice about how to behave when they’re traveling on business. Use instagram. Share photos on Twitter and Facebook. Tweet live while attending events. So now it’s time for me to confess that my advice is really hard to follow....
by Becky Robinson | May 20, 2013 | Book Launch
“What will it take for me to claim my own freedom and create an organization of my own choosing?” Peter Block, Stewardship. What will it take? It will take commitment to do the work, every day, delivering on commitments and fulfilling promises. “I...
by Becky Robinson | May 17, 2013 | Leadership
We love our staff. Seriously. Love them. That means that we empower them to take risks, catch them when they are falling, cover them when family needs to come first, push them to overcome their own inhibitions, and celebrate with them when they create greatness....
by Becky Robinson | May 16, 2013 | Book Launch
I’m not super comfortable with video, which inspires me to make a commitment to film and share more. Even so, with the registration deadline to the 2013 Berrett-Koehler Book Marketing event fast approaching, I wanted to film and share a quick book promo tip via...
by Becky Robinson | May 15, 2013 | Leadership
It’s a standard some women use to judge the success of a date: did he open doors? I spoke to a friend recently as she recounted a first date. He was wonderful, she said. Did everything right: brought roses, opened doors. When a man opens doors on a date, we...
