by Franklin Wordsmith | May 27, 2021 | Leadership
Make It about Your People and Place Think about all of the people you’ve reported to over the years. If you’re like me, the first thing that pops up is some aspect of their personality: “She was afraid of confrontation so never stood up for us as...
by Franklin Wordsmith | May 27, 2021 | Leadership, Uncategorized, Video
You Can Only Avoid Sweating the Small Stuff when You KNOW It’s Small! Growing up in Minnesota, our neighbors were fond of using the expression, “She couldn’t see the forest for the trees.” That can be the same issue with not paying attention to...
by Franklin Wordsmith | May 25, 2021 | Leadership, Uncategorized, Video
How to Know When You’re Crossing the Line — and What to Do about It I remember the first time I felt judged — and came up wanting. My grandmother looked at my 10-year-old self, shook her head and said, “It’s a good thing you have a nice...
by Franklin Wordsmith | May 25, 2021 | Leadership
Stop Calling It a “Negative Emotion” to Avoid Among the many types of basic emotions we can experience (from five to 27, depending upon whose research you read), we tend to label each as “good” and “bad.” Yes: send me more “happiness” and less “fear.” This...
by Franklin Wordsmith | May 18, 2021 | Leadership, Video
Here’s Why I Don’t Think You Should — and What You Can Do Instead Emotions are like mercury. Stuff them in one place and they usually come out in another: often with a greater volume and velocity than the situation warrants. Lately, I’ve...
by 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...
