Author: Rachel Hanson

Aspects of your BTL Core are simply your gut, clarified and put on paper. The clearer your Core, the stronger your gut, and the more likely you are to act immediately instead of having to sift through what your gut is telling you. If you want to act decisively in times of stress or uncertainty, … Continue reading Gut on paper

Most pain, upon inspection, is not as big as our mind makes it out to be. A few that have come up recently in practices: The pain of losing autonomy once married, the pain of a hard conversation with a boss, the pain of a hard conversation with someone who reports to you, the pain … Continue reading Paper tigers

A leader I work with wrote that they needed to provide clarity and order to their team. Clarity and order are two different things, I reminded him. As a leader, the one thing you cannot outsource is the vision (clarity). You must be clear on where we're going and why. Others will either be attracted … Continue reading Clarity and order

Excellence demands much of those who pursue it. It demands we dare greatly and face our hardest challenges (mostly those within). We live in an age where this is, by and large, not celebrated. We live in an age of conformity. Whether on the right or the left, it's expected you'll conform. To step out … Continue reading The pursuit of excellence

Internal processors (IPs) work through problems very differently than do external processors (EPs), which frequently leads to miscommunications. IPs often need time and space to sort through their internal world, internal thoughts, and arrive at a conclusion they're ready to share. When they do share them, they're often fully fleshed out, well-formed concepts. EPs (I'm … Continue reading Internal vs external processing

KISS. We've all heard it - keep it simple, stupid. Easily said, not so easily done. A team in a recent practice got far more simple on their expectations for the leaders of their teams. In the past they'd tried to come to a consensus on what metrics to hold up for the standard. Not … Continue reading KISS

"Talkativeness [...] is the result of doing away with the vital distinction between talking and keeping silent. Only some one who knows how to remain essentially silent can really talk - and act essentially. Silence is the essence of inwardness, of the inner life. Talkativeness is afraid of the silence which reveals its emptiness." -  … Continue reading Talkativeness

Know your aim, know your priorities. A client of mine has gotten clearer on a bolted on belief - that their highest purpose is related to their family and to providing understanding, connectedness, and helping their little ones grow. The clearer this client is on their highest purpose, the more they are letting go of … Continue reading Know your aim