Building Personal Resilience: Simple Practices for Challenging Times
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Change management and leadership coaching
for nonprofit, association, and corporate leaders
through growth, transition, and change — using our proven Seasons of Growth™ Framework.
Based in Washington, D.C. and working globally.
Change is inevitable.
It is also complicated, chaotic and confusing.
As your organization evolves, you quickly realize the skills that got you this far aren’t suited to the new challenges you’re now facing.
You start feeling unsure, your team begins to struggle and before you know it, the wheels are falling off.
There is conflict. Infighting. Politics. Your staff aren’t engaged.
Morale is decreasing, turnover is increasing.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
Lead like a gardener
RCA Seasons for Growth Framework™
Your role as a leader during times of change and growth is similar to the work of a gardener tending to their land.
Underpinning our practice, this framework helps build a strong foundation for transformation and sustained impact.
Assess the landscape
and make a plan.
Put the plan in
action, planting and
tending to the land.
Enjoy the fruits of your
labor, preparing for the next
cycle of change and growth.
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