Business Thinking and Leadership Styles
BTLS: Understand how you think.Discover what you can do with it.
Two ways to explore thinking preferences. One designed for business and professional development. The other for understanding yourself and the people in your everyday life.
Business Thinking and Leadership Styles (BTLS) helps people explore their preferred ways of thinking, communicating, making decisions and approaching problems.
Originally developed for business applications, BTLS is expanding into two distinct offerings.
Whether you want to improve team understanding, support organisational development or simply learn more about yourself, BTLS offers a practical starting point.
Two ways to explore BTLS
One BTLS family. Two different starting points.
BTLS for Business is the established professional product. BTLS for Life is a new personal experience that is still in development.
BTLS for BusinessCorporate and professional Established product, being modernised
Understand your people. Build stronger teams. Make better people decisions.
BTLS for Business helps organisations and professional practitioners understand individual and collective thinking preferences.
The modernised platform will combine established BTLS profiles with improved organisational administration, comparison capabilities and new tools to support people-related decisions.
Key capabilities
- Individual thinking, work, needs, leadership and coaching profiles.
- Team and group thinking-style insights.
- Organisational administration and management of staff profiles. Being introduced
- Comparison of individual and team profiles. Being introduced
- Tools to support communication, collaboration and management development.
- New hiring guidance functionality to help HR professionals explore thinking-style considerations relevant to different roles. Planned
BTLS for LifePersonal and everyday Coming soon
Your mind. Your style. Your way.
Why do you and your partner approach decisions differently? Why do some ways of learning feel more natural? Why do certain people understand you easily while others see things differently?
BTLS for Life will make thinking-style insights more accessible, personal and relevant to everyday situations.
Planned report areas
- My Thinking Style: discover your personal thinking preferences.
- Better Together: explore communication and thinking differences in friendships and relationships.
- Study Smarter: explore study approaches that may suit your preferences.
- Work Your Way: understand your approach to work and interaction with colleagues.
- Coaching That Fits You: explore how your preferences may influence the coaching support you find useful.
BTLS for Business
Better understanding of people. Better organisational decisions.
People approach information, problems, decisions and relationships differently. These differences can influence how individuals communicate, collaborate, respond to leadership and contribute to their teams.
BTLS helps organisations explore these preferences. The objective is to improve understanding and support more informed people-management decisions.
The modernised BTLS platform is being designed to give organisations more direct control over the administration and use of their BTLS profiles.
Individual development
Explore personal thinking preferences, work-related needs, leadership approaches, coaching preferences and innovation-related insights.
Team understanding and profile comparisons
Compare individual profiles and explore similarities and differences within teams. Use this information to support discussions about communication, collaboration and team development.
Organisational profile management
Provide authorised organisational administrators with tools to manage staff profiles, access relevant reports and organise profiles across departments or teams.
Hiring guidance
A planned BTLS application will help HR professionals consider thinking preferences in relation to the requirements of a position.
The purpose is to provide additional guidance for recruitment discussions and role-related development. It should complement structured interviews, job-related assessments and other evidence rather than replace them.
Professional coaching and consulting
BTLS provides coaches and consultants with individual and group insights to support coaching discussions, management development and team interventions.
Hiring guidance is a decision-support application. It complements other recruitment evidence. It is not automated candidate selection, an objective measure of suitability or a guarantee of employee performance.
Employee profile access, comparisons and organisational administration are governed by appropriate authorisation, data protection and privacy controls.
BTLS for Life: coming soon
Thinking styles are not just for work.
Discover yourself. Understand others. See things differently.
We use our thinking preferences every day. They may influence how we approach decisions, study, communicate and interact with the people around us.
BTLS for Life is being developed to make these insights accessible to a much wider audience. The new platform will use straightforward language, colourful visual reports and affordable report options.
The idea is simple: start by exploring your own thinking preferences. Then choose additional reports that help you reflect on specific areas of your life.
Your Thinking Style
Your starting point.
PreviewBetter Together
Relationships and communication.
PreviewStudy Smarter
Exploring your learning preferences.
PreviewWork Your Way
Understanding your working preferences.
PreviewCoaching That Fits You
Personalising your development conversations.
PreviewA new BTLS experience is in development.
Coming soonOne foundation, two applications
Different applications. A shared foundation.
Both BTLS offerings are based on the concept that people have different thinking preferences.
The corporate version
Focuses on work, teamwork, leadership and organisational development.
The personal version
Will focus on how thinking preferences may relate to everyday decisions, learning, relationships and personal development.
Neither approach is intended to label people or restrict their opportunities.
The purpose is to encourage greater self-awareness, better understanding of others and more informed choices.
Choose your starting point
Which BTLS experience is right for you?
BTLS for Business
For organisations and professionals
Explore the corporate BTLS platform and its applications in individual, team and organisational development.
BTLS for Life
For personal insight
A new and more accessible BTLS experience is on its way.
BTLS for Life: Coming soon