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 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 10, 2020 | Neuroscience
Understanding Your People’s Brains Can Make You a More Engaging Leader Maybe this has happened to you. I was looking forward to hearing a presentation. Instead, it beat me up and stole my lunch. “The Emperor’s New Clothes” in Speech Form This was a fancy-shmancy...
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 | Feb 27, 2020 | Leadership
How Our Brains Deal with Uncertainty I believe we all have an inner actuary. This is the part of our brains that evaluates risk: in things we’ve done before and in others we’ve never tried. Its job is to keep us safe. If the risk profile of what we’re considering is...
