by Becky Robinson | Mar 2, 2010 | Leadership
Sometimes, our similarities and differences are easy to see; our outward qualities of age, race, and gender are visible and obvious. When we see those outward qualities, we may be tempted to label and name before we look deeper to find common ground beyond our surface...
by Becky Robinson | Feb 22, 2010 | Leadership
Investing time and energy in helping others’ develop can seem like a huge undertaking, and it is. Many years ago, I worked as a tutor at local YMCA. One afternoon, one of my students began sharing her story with me. Due to a crisis in her family, she needed a...
by Becky Robinson | Feb 19, 2010 | Leadership
A week ago, my family moved from our home in Chicago, where the view from our windows looked like this, to southeast Michigan, where the view from our back deck looks like this. After one week in our new home, I am happy to report that we’ve unpacked most of the...
by Becky Robinson | Feb 15, 2010 | Leadership
Developing others’ capacity involves providing exposure, opportunity, and challenge. In order to grow, people need exposure; they need to be exposed to new ideas, new relationships, new environments, new technology, new ways of doing things. A leader’s...
by Becky Robinson | Feb 11, 2010 | Leadership
I could see Kaldi’s from my office window. The coffee shop offered breakfast bagels, panini sandwiches and salads at lunch time, and a cozy corner for my mentoring appointments with Cindy. As often as we could, we met for lunch, stolen hours in the midst of busy...
by Becky Robinson | Feb 9, 2010 | Leadership
My oldest daughter has lived over 35 million minutes in her eight and a half years of life. She’s grown from 7 pounds to 60 and stands about four feet tall. She is independent in many ways, especially compared to the infant we brought home from the hospital. She...
