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....
by Franklin Wordsmith | Jan 7, 2020 | Culture, Neuroscience
It’s one of our biggest fears as leaders. We look at our people and see troubling behaviors:They forget what we tell themThey are more anxious and stressedThey aren’t coming up with creative ideas to solve problems or identify new opportunitiesTheir...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Nov 12, 2019 | Leadership
It was one of the best moments in my executive communication coaching career.Chief HR Officer “Bill” was working with me before rolling out a new company-wide human resources program. We video recorded him doing a trial run of this announcement. He did a...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Oct 29, 2019 | Leadership
There seems to be a continuum on how people deal with culture issues. At one end are those who say. “This is amorphous and intangible and hard to pin down!” At the other, they state, “We need to quantify and measure this!”As usual, a solid...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Oct 22, 2019 | Leadership
I remember the first time I heard “corporate culture.”The chairman of the company where I worked summoned me—as director of public relations—into his office.Lions and Chairmen and BearsHe sat behind his massive desk at the far end of the room (think Wizard of Oz...
