Mentoring Minutes
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox
Mentoring Matters. Encouraging People. Changing Lives.
Mentoring Minutes is a collection of 260 short podcast episodes (2–3 minutes each) designed to encourage and inspire anyone working with adolescents.
Drawing on more than 40 years of experience in education, teaching, coaching, youth mentoring, and leadership development—together with insights from the latest adolescent brain research—each episode shares a practical idea, perspective, or principle that can help adults guide young people more effectively.
These mini training moments introduce a different concept in every episode, along with a simple Mentoring Tip that can be applied immediately.
To interact or learn more, visit www.mentoringmatters.nz
You can also explore the book Mentoring Minutes: Weekly Messages to Encourage Anyone Guiding Youth, for an updated and expanded version of these podcast reflections.
More mentoring resources are available at www.mentoringmatters.nz
Episodes
261 episodes
The Mentor's Dream
Download a free copy of A Mentor's Dream: https://www.mentoringmatters.nz/Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. In the final episode of the M...
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Episode 261
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3:12
Why we need youth mentoring
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. Why is youth mentoring so important? This episode considers some of the findings from research carried out over many...
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Episode 260
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2:03
A Teenager's 10 mentoring requests
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. In this episode an adolescent shares 10 requests volunteer adult mentors could consider to enhance a mentoring relat...
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Episode 259
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2:29
A mentor: a wise and trusted friend
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. This episode looks at some strategies volunteer adult mentors can consider as they seek to become a wise and trusted...
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Episode 258
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2:44
More reasons why I mentor
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. In this episode the author shares some of the quotes from his research that have inspired and motivated him as a vol...
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Episode 257
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1:58
The mentor: a true story
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. This episode shares a true story of the experience of a volunteer adult mentor with his adolescent mentee.Abo...
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Episode 256
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2:13
Connecting your adolescent mentee to positive people
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. One of the important roles of volunteer adult mentors is to encourage their adolescent mentees to develop...
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Episode 255
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2:10
Dealing with inappropriate behaviour
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. This important episode offers strategies for volunteer adult mentors to consider when their adolescent mentee is inv...
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Episode 254
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2:12
Real Person. Real Goals.
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. This episode highlights the importance of the volunteer adult mentor considering the development of the whole person...
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Episode 253
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1:48
Learning to manage anger
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. One of the great contributions a volunteer adult mentor can make in the life of an adolescent mentee is coaching, te...
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Episode 252
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2:18
Always a positive mentoring role model
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. This episode highlights how volunteer adult mentors, as positive role models, can significantly impact the lives of ...
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Episode 251
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1:53
Rise to the mentoring challenges
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. Mentoring adolescents is always going to be a challenging experience for volunteer adult mentors. Some thoughts from...
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Episode 250
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2:34
Why self-esteem and self-image are significant in adolescence
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. An important episode to guide volunteer adult mentors gain a deeper understanding of how to develop high self-esteem...
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Episode 249
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2:32
Listening with empathy
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. An important episode to encourage volunteer adult mentors to display genuine empathy during the mentoring journey wi...
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Episode 248
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1:23
Identifying adolescent mentees with a poor self-image.
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. An important episode which explains some of the signs of an adolescent with a poor self-image and low self-esteem.&n...
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Episode 247
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2:23
The art of a mentoring conversation
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. Effective communication is critical for any meaningful relationship, most especially in that between a volunteer adu...
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Episode 246
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1:51
Develop a great mentoring relationship
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. Strategies to ensure that adolescent mentees are loved and cared for by their volunteer adult mentors are shared in ...
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Episode 245
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2:19
Adolescent mentees with high self-esteem
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. One of the important roles of volunteer adult mentors is to encourage the development of their adolescent mentee's h...
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Episode 244
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2:25
A key mentoring statement in life's journey
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. This important episode looks at one of the most important statements in understanding life's journey, especially imp...
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Episode 243
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2:13
Mentors as significant adults
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. More thoughts about volunteer adult mentors as significant adults in the lives of young people. An important e...
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Episode 242
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2:08
Mentoring: you are a non-parent adult never forget this.
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. The importance of having non-parent significant adults in the life of an adolescent is explored in this episode,...
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Episode 241
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2:04
Mentoring: it's fun
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. There is a danger that sometimes volunteer adult mentors are too serious with their adolescent mentee. This episode ...
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Episode 240
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2:34
Positive ways to connect with an adolescent mentee
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. The early stages of a mentoring relationship can be challenging for many volunteer adult mentors as they try and mov...
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Episode 239
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2:09
Why you matter as a mentor in a young person's life
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. This episode is a reminder to volunteer adults of the importance of developing a meaningful relationship with a youn...
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Episode 238
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1:51
Are you listening? Communicate as a mentor.
Mentoring Minutes with Robin Cox. Practical mentoring insights to help young people grow in character, confidence, and purpose. An important aspect of a mentoring relationship is coaching, teaching and guiding a young person on how to receive f...
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Episode 237
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2:10