Author: Rachel Hanson

How do you prepare for a big moment? It starts with preparation. There's at least two different kinds of preparation. Specific preparation - preparation for the task and topic at hand. This involves familiarizing yourself with the the relevant information, details,  data,  numbers,  identifying the melody lines and gaining clarity on what you believe to … Continue reading Preparation

A client of mine has an underperforming teammate that reports to her. Inspection is needed. She got some advice that she should go have one on ones with this leader's team...she didn't feel right about that. Good. If you want to cut a leader's legs out from under them AND fail to help them grow, … Continue reading Learn together

Loyalty, like all virtues, requires discipline around it. When loyalty is over cooked, you can become loyal to a fault. You can become loyal to the bad actor and take too long to cut them loose, to the endangerment of the team. You can remain loyal too long, even when you're taken advantage of repeatedly. … Continue reading Loyalty

In practice with a client the other day I was reminded again that home is where the heart is AND where the hurt is. That's not surprising. Home is where we're typically most vulnerable, most open, most fully ourselves. The more vulnerable you are, the easier it is to be and feel wounded. Here's the … Continue reading Home

If something feels too big, too hard to get started on, it just means your first step isn't small enough. Heard this the other day and loved it. Baby steps is the way. Work your way into taking on bigger challenges over time, and remember it always starts with baby steps. Pick a small enough … Continue reading Baby steps

Funny conversation with a client the other day. He wrote a principle - I will not sit in misery. The first thing that popped into my mind was my 1 year old son and his poopy diapers. Bear with me. They (the poopy diapers) happen multiple times a day, and one thing he never does … Continue reading Misery and diapers

If we chase money for money's sake, it's never enough. See day 35 in Becoming Built to Lead. A lesson we humans seem to have hard time letting sink in. Alternatively if we chase meaning and never do the hard work of building mastery we have a hard time making a living. So what's the … Continue reading Meaning, mastery, and money

What you believe directly leads to how you respond to situations. Big growth periods in a business are often accompanied by stress and destabilization. Normal. How you and the team respond to it depends on what you believe. Is all destabilization bad? Is all stress bad? If you believe that, then you and your team … Continue reading Stress