by Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 10, 2021 | Leadership
Confidence Versus Competence The Universe made me write this article. This morning, I saw these two things in quick succession: A LinkedIn post from workforce and career agility expert Marti Konstant on why the most qualified candidate doesn’t always win the job...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Sep 29, 2020 | Storytelling
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...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Sep 22, 2020 | Culture, Persuasion
Moving Beyond the Blame Game I was doing leadership communication coaching with a president—let’s call him Jim—who was the heir apparent at a large company. He had a love/hate relationship with the chairman—let’s call him Ted. Jim would spend a good portion of our...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Sep 16, 2020 | Leadership
Do Three Things to Serve and Engage Your People Before and During Your Meetings “Let’s have a meeting!” Leaders spend a whopping 50% of their time in meetings, with managers following at around 35%. Yet executives believe that 67% of meetings are...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Sep 1, 2020 | Neuroscience
Your Memory IS Playing Tricks on You! When we were kids, my older brother Mark used to say, “You have a great memory. You remember things that never happened!” I used to bristle—and protest—over this. It turns out he was right. Our Flexible Memories It’s called “the...
