by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Mar 2, 2021 | Neuroscience
How Your Presence and Words Connect with Others In her book 7-1/2 Lessons About the Brain, Neuroscientist and Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett makes the case that our brains were designed for one purpose: to manage the energy in our bodies to help us survive. She calls...
by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 23, 2021 | Leadership
A Very Revealing 5-Minute Exercise A CEO was working with me to polish his leadership communication skills—to meet his goal of being promoted to chairman. One of the issues that confounded him was being concise during presentations. We decided to take a novel...
by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 19, 2021 | Neuroscience
What’s Going on in Others’ Brains — and What You Can Do about It When was the last time you needed to have a tough talk with someone? A friend told me it was Saturday night in the grocery store checkout line. The woman behind her was with a tween-age...
by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 10, 2021 | Leadership
Confidence Versus Competence The Universe made me write this article. This morning, I saw these two things in quick succession: A LinkedIn post from workforce and career agility expert Marti Konstant on why the most qualified candidate doesn’t always win the job...
by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 3, 2021 | Leadership
It Can Be a Great Organizational Change Tool or a Cultural Slippery Slope This started out as a missive on the “boiling frog syndrome.” You may have heard of it. In an experiment, a live frog was dropped into boiling water and it jumped out, because it...
