by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Aug 10, 2021 | Neuroscience, Video
What Giving and Receiving Advice Does to Our Brains My friend “Mary” has a daughter going through the sudden and unexpected end of her marriage. Mary is a loving mother. “I want what’s best for her,” she explained. “But my daughter...
by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Jul 21, 2021 | Leadership, Neuroscience, Uncategorized
Three Ways to Make it Safe for Others to Fail When was the last time you or your people took a chance on being innovative, and it didn’t work out? That happened to me in March 2020. I created a program called “The Remote Leadership Series.” It featured virtual...
by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Jul 14, 2021 | Leadership, Neuroscience
What Happens BEFORE a Conversation Affects Your Choices You’re walking down the hall to a meeting. You pass a colleague who is berating one of his direct reports about being late on a project. You pick up your pace because the negative energy is making you...
by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Jun 22, 2021 | Leadership, Neuroscience
What Goes on in Your Brain and How to Influence It My brother Mark needed to tie down the tarp on a wood cabinet in the back of a pickup. He struggled with this because a stroke left his right side paralyzed. “Let me help,” I said. Fiercely independent, Mark glared at...
by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | May 27, 2021 | Neuroscience
Know Our Lazy Brains Need to Wake Up The term “post-truth era” started showing up in 2016. It stands for “the disappearance of shared objective standards for truth.” This results in a blurring of lines among facts, alternative facts, knowledge, opinion,...
by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | May 25, 2021 | Neuroscience
Tap this Secret to Creating Rapport In 1992, a group of scientists in Parma, Italy, were doing research with macaque monkeys. They watched as one monkey looked at a second one open and eat a banana. The motor cortex in the first monkey lit up as though it also was...
