Introducing Margaretrose Cox

Margaretrose started in the hospitality industry working in hotels and restaurants. She didn't finish college and the absence of a degree meant that she always started at the bottom and worked her way up in the organizations she worked for. She knew she wanted more and was searching for the way to do it. After being a stay-at-home Mom for a while she started work as a Manager in a restaurant chain where she started coaching servers, her first experience of coaching.

She was 42 years old and serving tables when the other servers told her she should coach and be paid for it. This also happened when Margaretrose started working for the Government in Tallahassee. This is when someone told her about the John Maxwell Team certification program which made Margaretrose really excited. So much so that she quit her job, cashed in her retirement and joined the certification program. To support herself she drove for Uber and Lyft which had the added benefit of giving Margaretrose the experience of talking to people. 

Question: What did you learn from what these college kids were experiencing?

Almost everyone of them was full of joy and excitement which was refreshing however the majority of them had no idea what they wanted to do with their life. They were getting a degree but didn't know what job they wanted or what life entailed. There appeared to be a lack of basic life skills, such as cooking a meal, going grocery shopping, or budgeting.

Baby Brandon Syndrome.

Margaretrose was designing a curriculum, Adulting 101,  and put out a post to ask parents if she could interview their young adults as research. One of the students was Brandon who was a 21-year old Junior in college. Brandon was a quiet student who was getting ready to look for internships. Listen to the story as Margaretrose describes her conversation with Brandon about budgeting, shopping, cleaning and other basic life skills. 

This story embodies the challenge with parents loving their children so much that they want to protect them but by doing so they are shielding them from growing and developing into functioning adults.

Note: Our young adults want to learn and yet they don't have the tools to succeed which is why I created Acorns 2 Oaks Leadership Academy. My mission is to help educate our young adults on finding their "Why" and pursuing their passion so that they can live within their strength zones and do more of what they love to do. 

As a society it is our responsibility to help guide our young adults to think for themselves so that they live a purpose driven life. Too many do not know what they want to do and will drift through life, following the example that has been set by the adults in their life. We want to protect them from failure and by doing so the net effect is that we enable them to not try new things for themselves. We do it with the best intentions although it will ultimately hurt them by fulfilling our needs at the expense of helping them to grow.

While we don't want our kids to fail, it is important that they do so that they can learn from these experiences. We cannot wrap them in cotton wool forever as eventually they have to step out on their own so the sooner we start educating them on life skills the better.

Decorating the Christmas tree.

This is a great example of how we want our kids to help but after they have gone to bed we often correct the work so it looks better. We are doing this to satisfy our needs but what message does this send to the kids? They will reflect and say why should I try as Mum and Dad only fix it after and maybe ask: Do they not think I am good enough?

Margaretrose shares another example of her Brother laying mulch with his kids and how his attitude was one of helping hem to learn even though it meant his flower beds didn't look perfect as they did.

This lesson applies equally in the workplace as it does in families because you need to encourage your team to learn and develop. Show confidence in them and watch them blossom!

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