by Franklin Wordsmith | Apr 14, 2020 | Leadership, Video
What to Do when a “Data Junkie” Is Under the Gun — So You Don’t Find It Pointed at You Ron was one of my clients at the Financial Relations Board, where I did investor communications. He was the chairman and CEO of a company that manufactured...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Apr 7, 2020 | Leadership, Video
What to Understand when the “Nicest People You Know” Are Feeling the Heat So You Don’t Get Scorched — and Recognize if This Is You I remember my first “amiable” boss, Tim. When the communications agency hired me, everyone told me I...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Mar 31, 2020 | Leadership
Here’s What to Do if it’s You and How to Handle Someone Else in that Mode I remember taking my first personality test at a corporate job. In addition to filling out the evaluation myself, they asked other people who worked with me to complete it. Then the...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Mar 31, 2020 | Leadership
To Text or Email … To Call or (Virtually) Meet … Use this Strategy Matrix to Decide Stupidity or feet of clay. Sooner or later we all make missteps from one or the other. Learn from my mistake, then check out the matrix I wish I’d had then. Once upon...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Mar 17, 2020 | Leadership, Video
Use COVID-19 as a Wake-Up Call to Improve Your Skills as a Communicator Last Thursday night, I nipped into the grocery store to pick up a few items. Little did I know it was apocalypse in there! I grabbed the last shopping cart. The aisles were filled with...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Mar 3, 2020 | Leadership, Video
What Are Your Meetings Saying about Your Corporate Culture? You’ve probably seen the horrific numbers on the effectiveness of business meetings. In 2019, Doodle did a survey of 6,500 professionals in the U.S., Germany and the UK, covering 19 million meetings....
