The definition of self-management is “the art of being the best of yourself despite all the complexities you face” (Walter Vandervelde). Yet, when faced with significant changes and the complexities that come with change, the default is to look at the external environment, identify where we aren’t aligning and to try to amend ourselves to “fit in” or “make it work”.
RainTrees latest article talks about “The Power of Self-Management: A Call to Lead from Within”
Financial management plays an important role in building a sustainable and healthy business and can’t be dismissed. But how often is the budget used as the reason for the hard “No” that doesn’t require an explanation.
RainTrees latest article talks about “Budget Empowerment”
Many businesses place themselves at risk by building a dependence on an individual or individuals. We all want to believe we will live or be happy at a company forever, but good leadership says that we must manage this risk for the business and ourselves. At RainTree Business Coaching, a team of middle management experts, we often encounter this obstacle with our clients. Why are executives so reluctant to step away from control and empower their managers?
RainTrees latest article talks about “Legacy Leadership: How Empowering Others Secures the Future of Your Business”
And once again, in what has been a whirlwind of learning, growing, failing and succeeding, we are staring down the last few days of 2024. 2024 has been a truly adventurous year for RainTree Business Coaching. We have boldly worked with new clients, made difficult decisions about the future of the business and waltzed (or twerked, if you ask Leoni) in the music that is the amazing progress our clients and coaches have made. 2024, while not easy, has been dynamic and demanding. Most of us are feeling tired and ready for a bit of a break. No matter whether you found it awful or easy, 2024 is a year to remember.
RainTrees latest article talks about “Lessons, Growth, and Gratitude: Taking 2024 lessons into 2025”
Change, change, change – everywhere and all the time. It just doesn’t let up. If it isn’t leadership changes (politically and in business), its client needs changes or changing family expectations. Middle managers are feeling overwhelmed. They feel desperate, more and more. And desperation is the most effective repellent to middle managers getting what they want out of their teams and leaders. RainTree’s latest article talks about “The Mindset Shift, Middle Managers Need to Thrive in Times of Constant Change”
Coaching challenges the manager to recognize the trap of being stuck in familiarity (often recognized through statements like “that is how it has always been done”) is “right”, “good” and “safe”. People are designed to hold onto the familiar. That is why we have “comfort zones”, and “growing pains”. It requires courage, effort and energy to step out of the familiar and to explore the unfamiliar for long enough for the unfamiliar to become the new familiar. RainTree’s latest article talks about “Coaching Middle Managers for Proactive Leadership with the POLC Model”
At RainTree, we pride ourselves on having a powerful and skilled team of coaches. Recently, Lerato co-coached a Leadership for Results Group Coaching Journey for the Board of Healthcare Providers of Southern Africa (BHF). She shared the following feedback with us:
I remember the struggles with millennials and am now living through the challenge of understanding and accommodating Gen Zs in the workplace. Both generations challenge the current status quo. Both generations force the re-evaluation of what we know and expect. Both generations have come closer and closer to knowing who they are and what they want and having the courage to demand it. So, how does this affect business as most of our junior managers developing to be middle managers are Gen Z. RainTree’s latest article talks about “Bridging the Generational Gap: How Gen Z is Redefining Business Leadership”
The difference between leadership and management has become a more and more prominent topic in recent years. Leadership seems to be elevated while management is presented as the “poor second cousin” in business practice. Should middle managers be leading or is their job exclusively management? RainTree’s latest article talks about Leadership vs. Management: The RainTree Case for Empowering Middle Managers to Lead.
“What RainTree Business Coaching achieved in an awe-inspiring manner was the awakening of my team’s authentic inner leaders, based on the unique sum of who they are as individuals.