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 18, 2020 | Persuasion
Don’t “Show Up and Throw Up” and Hope for the Best My first big presentation was as a senior in high school. I had to give a two-hour talk on “utopianism.” Little did I know that this would span the continuum between what makes a terrible...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Nov 19, 2019 | Persuasion
For almost four years, I traveled the country one week a month, giving a workshop called “Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers” for people who were afraid of numbers. (Let me feel your thoughts of horror and pity!)When I asked why people came, the...
