Discover 3 simple steps to reset and redirect when your systems start to feel sticky.
Whether you’re leading a team, planning for leave, or simply trying to navigate change with clarity — this article is for you.
RainTree’s latest article talks about “Leadership, Systems and Change”.
Leadership isn’t just about strategy.
It’s about the culture we create — and whether that culture quietly invites people to hide, or boldly welcomes them to rise.
RainTree’s latest article talks about “Belonging Before Achievement”.
Sadly, this story is not unique. 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.
RainTrees latest article talks about “Legacy Leadership: How Empowering Others Secures the Future of Your Business”
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: