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 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 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...
by Becky Robinson | Apr 24, 2013 | Leadership
It’s hard for me to believe I’ve only been in business full time since last June, not even a year yet. Growing Weaving Influence feels, at times, like life on hyper-drive. We’ve got a lot going on: adding new subcontractors, training new...
