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When transitioning to a leadership role, especially at the level of park superintendent, there are critical steps that will set the stage for high functioning teamwork in the future. Below are key considerations for the transition.

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Continual litigation. Decreased budgets. Climate change. Increased public scrutiny. The external environment keeps getting more challenging, and demands keep increasing. If that wasn’t enough, there are internal changes to deal with: administrative reorganizations, a changing workforce, departmental mandates, political swings that lead to drastic shifts in policy and priorities. Any one of these factors, in isolation, would place stress on an organization. Put them together, and federal resource management agencies are caught in a perfect storm of continual upheaval. There is simply no such thing as “business as usual” anymore.