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Are You Energizing or Depleting the People Around You?

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...

Agreeable Versus Disagreeable Brains

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...

How a Secret Santa Made Me Appreciate Kindness

by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Dec 15, 2020 | Neuroscience

 The email subject line read, “A Gift Has Been Purchased for You” followed by “This is Rachel from Stella on Central Street. A Secret Santa purchased a gift for you. Your Secret Santa asked me to email you to find out a good time to deliver it. Please let me know.” ...

Video: Want to Be More Successful? Smile!

by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Dec 1, 2020 | Neuroscience

Here Are the Benefits to Your Brain — and the Brains of Everyone Who Sees You This is a scary statistic. Children smile an average of 400 times a day. (Ultrasounds show they also smile in the womb.) Adults who are known to smile a lot do this about 40 to 50...

Stop Keeping Score on Your Employees' Performance

by Lynne Franklin Wordsmith | Nov 24, 2020 | Culture, Neuroscience

Why Our Brains Hate This “I’ve got a few minutes,” said my boss, the VP of Communications. “Why don’t you come into my office and we’ll do your first annual performance appraisal interview.” It was a statement, not a question. The Performance Review Ambush I hadn’t...

Video: What Do You Choose When Everything Goes Wrong?

by mmtech | Oct 5, 2020 | Leadership, Neuroscience, Persuasion, Storytelling, Video

Give Up on Getting It “Right” and Be More Human I thought I’d already learned my lesson. My goal was to do a virtual training on practice development techniques for a law firm’s associates. I’d record that and have some proof that I know how to do online learning...
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